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"The potential for Project Ara is vast, at least if you consider the idea of easily customizable commercial smartphones important," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Personally, I love the idea of choosing phone features as easily as you would configure a Del...

During the heyday of the dot-com boom, then-HP CEO Carly Fiorina espoused a notion called "good enough" computing. Despite significant performance differences between x86 servers and Unix and other enterprise-class systems, the dramatically lower cost of x86-based products would cause organizations to rethink their computing priorities and adopt, buy and deploy x86 whenever and wherever possible, she maintained.

"Google has a reputation for finding value in places most other companies pay little attention to or overlook entirely," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "While large-scale projects like Google Maps and Earth approach their subjects with a macro...

"It looks like the locales are either central telecom hubs or places with a large IT industry presence," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "That'd make sense both from a supply & demand standpoint." Google expects to announce by the end of ...

"If nothing else, the reports suggest a significant lack of internal transparency at HP," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT www.pund-it.com, told the E-Commerce Times It's hard to predict how the latest revelations will impact HP, but "if it's found to be truly culpab...

"While the extended alliance includes plans for new, further product integrations that should benefit both the companies and their customers, it mainly seems to focus on promoting the value of Hadoop as an open source project and implementation," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider...

What Microsoft is doing with Power BI makes perfect sense, Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT told CRM Buyer, pointing to its leverage of the existing features and popularity of Excel and other applications. "Microsoft Office 365 is the primary productivity suite u...

"Given its size -- 1 million or so workers -- and experience in building high-quality electronics devices ... Foxconn has both the heft and wherewithal to support a serious development effort," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "As a more...

The retail image of consumer electronics products -- bright and shiny in their meticulously sterile packages -- fundamentally contradicts how they are manufactured. Anyone who has spent time on a factory floor knows this. The work is often dirty and occasionally dangerous, emphasized speed leads to injuries, and the constant stress of repetitive motions and work quotas can exact other kinds of tolls.

"The biggest contrast between Chromebox and competing meeting solutions is price," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Competing solutions often include more comprehensive components -- displays, etc. -- but are typically far more expensiv...

"What major vendors now call "social" is what they used to call "collaboration," remarked Charles King, principal at Pund-IT Assessing Oracle's New Direction...

"The main issue I can see is whether users would be outside long enough to make the technology worthwhile," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "Most people spend their days in offices with occasional breaks for coffee or lunch, so it seems unlike...

"I'd call Google's move to adapt Glass for traditional prescription eyewear a modest, practical effort to expand its market appeal," Charles King, principal analyst and Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "Till now, Glass has largely been limited to users with decent vision or who ...

In case you missed last week's announcement that Lenovo would be acquiring IBM's System x x86 server business, here are some of the details: ...

"For Lenovo, the deal effectively allows the company's server business -- which mainly focuses on low-end systems -- to accelerate from 5 mph to 60 mph almost immediately," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "As a result, Lenovo's position...

"The recent incidents aren't so much about a specific product (Google Glass, in these cases) so much as they are about increasingly powerful portable technologies," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "There have been many past events that bear at ...

Taken together, these assets have the potential to propel Verizon into the same league as Comcast in terms of content offerings, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. Intel Media is a very compelling and interesting unit, he remarked. Intel launche...

"In essence, this could change managing diabetes from a manual procedure to a constant automatic process," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "If it is successful, diabetics using the technology would likely have fewer spikes in their blood sugar and, as a result, experience better overall health." ...

In general, Microsoft's partnership strategy has been working, said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT "Initially, the company was offering it through its own hosting mechanism, but over time it came to realize that for Office 365 to achieve full market penetration i...

"The issues around the NSA and pervasiveness of security organizations in penetrations of people's personal computers and other devices, including smartphones, has put a lot of people on edge," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "I do think there are a good number of consumers and businesses who will take it upon themselves to purchase and use the most secure devices with the greatest level of security that's possible."