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"Masking online activities is a critical capability in locales where political repression is common," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. As for bad actors, "I wouldn't qualify Tails as being any more dangerous than other common devices used by criminals, including cars and guns, or the digital still and video cameras favored by pedophiles."

In theory, it is a good plan and worth the $7.4 billion gamble Microsoft is taking, said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. "One of the problems that Microsoft has run into with Windows Phone is that handset manufacturers tend to be very mercurial in the platforms ...

Longevity doesn't get much respect in the tech industry, partly due to new technologies regularly entering and dominating industries and commercial markets. However, cultural factors play a part, too. ...

"Geographically remote backup is certainly a best practice, especially for systems and facilities involved in financial transactions, but it's not always followed rigorously," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. Several of the banks and financial ...

"From proponents' standpoint, any motion is probably better than the foot-dragging carriers have demonstrated to date," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "That said, there are two major weaknesses in the plan," he noted....

"There are so many options and so many vendors vying for a piece of the pie that garnering carriers, developers and consumers' attention ranges from difficult to impossible," remarked Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT The Lure of Filthy Lucre...

"This is a very interesting marketing strategy," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "T-Mobile is making a pretty significant step forward in eliminating these overage fees itself. By publicly calling on competitors to do the same thing -- if competitors feel the need to do so, T-Mobile can point to that and say 'see, they're following us. We're the market leader right now.' ...

"Given the huge amount of attention Amazon received over the drone story -- due to Bezos' 60 Minutes interview -- I would have thought the Prime Air effort deserved more than a single sentence at the end of a paragraph on page 5 of the letter," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times.

"This is just more evidence that even talented and dedicated programmers and developers can make mistakes," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "The scariest thing about it is that site owners may have been attacked or robbed and wouldn't know a thing."

"While many people's attitudes towards same-sex marriage have changed during the past two years, Eich's have not," remarked Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "That does not necessarily make him wrong or evil -- just out of step." Is the Open Process Broken?...

"Any time major industry and media players talk up a new technology, it's worth paying attention to what's being said," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "At the same time, marketing and PR budgets are not what drives the kind of adoption among consumers...

Still, the EU measure provides more certainty on the issue than exists in the U.S., where regulatory agencies responsible for overseeing the communications infrastructure fumbled the Net neutrality ball, said Charles King, principal of Pund-IT Earlier this year, in Verizon v.

"For lawyers, accountants, teachers and public sector professionals, Sony's Digital Paper device could be extremely attractive," suggested Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "That's mainly because those professions work with and rely on full sized -- 8.5- x11-inch --...

"Other than the satellite technology mentioned in the announcement, the other approaches are largely hypothetical both technologically and financially," Charles King, principal at Pund-It, told TechNewsWorld. "HALE aircraft are in their infancy from a commercial standpoint, ...

"On an elemental level, this is the equivalent of adding a remote control to your home or office lighting," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "That can be useful for some situations -- just as using a remote is for TVs and audio systems -- but it...

Like most small, inbred communities, Silicon Valley encourages and thrives on gossip, even when it's of little substance. In popular-speak, Valley gossip has a "low signal to noise ratio," but the rumor mill is vibrantly alive despite that shortcoming -- partly due to venture capitalists, whose efforts parallel the day-to-day business of technology.

"Given the nature of the WhatsApp use model, with backup enabled by default, you could argue that the hack is a key to a treasure house of information ... [but] I personally doubt it," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider "Given the size of WhatsApp's ...

"There are obvious technological advantages for MXC focusing on the transmission of vaster volumes of data at far greater speeds," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "Both points resonate in a world that's becoming increasingly Big Data-happy in the sense...

Still, it "seems highly likely" that Facebook will grab WhatsApp users' data and use it willy-nilly because it "has a history of treating users' data as its own proprietary property to be commercially leveraged in any way the company sees fit," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...

"Google's hands-free search is both following and pushing the envelope of this most common technology," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "In one way, it simply indicates the increasing role that search plays across a range of endeavors -- but by simplifying t...