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"Picking up a big box of LTE and 4G patents is a good strategy if you are expanding into this space," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The more patents you have, the less likely it is that someone will mug you in the courts." That "mu...

Still, the potential is "pretty amazing," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "They're estimating that they could achieve a data density of up to 8 terabits per square inch, which is two and a half or two and a third times the absolute maximum data d...

It would have been surprising if these topics hadn't been featured at Sapphire, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told CRM Buyer "Mobile collaboration, social collaboration, the business cloud, and such issues as Bring Your Own Device to work (BYOD) are on the top of people'...

"I think the latest fiasco, or the fiasco that led to the CEO's ouster, was a matter of the company shooting itself in the foot," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-It. "This could have been avoidable if they had done the due diligence ahead of time." Of course, the ...

"Given the potential for problems or accidents this early in the autonomous vehicle game, it's probably wise [to have a second person monitor the equipment]," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, said. "It's analogous to airlines requiring a copilot." All Dressed Up Wit...

For those familiar with traditional thin-client computing, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions feel virtually like old home week with a couple of notable exceptions. ...

Microsoft "likely sees this as a leverage point of sorts for widening its position in the education market," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "If students buy textbooks for the Nook, a Nook app for Windows 7 laptops or tablets might be pretty attractive."

Samsung also gets kudos for its focus on the competition, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Samsung has systematically gone after any number of competitors and taken them out," he said. "It seems to be one of the few vendors that actually has a ...

"The showdown between Intel's and ARM-based chips is heating up," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "This could be the first salvo in a continuing battle for the hearts and minds of mobile phone makers and mobile phone consumers." It's also likely Samsung has an...

The tech industry loves the concept of new innovation to the point where product launches all too often call to mind infatuated elders showing off photos of their latest grandkids. But practicality tends to drive the manufacturing side of the IT business, with consistency trumping innovation. ...

"From a technical standpoint, this is really about two significant jumps in chip architecture," Charles King of Pund-IT told TechNewsWorld. "One is the ongoing improvement on Moore's Law in regards to the CPU performance. With Ivy Bridge, Intel is pushing a 15-to-20 percent improvement in the CPU experience, and both business and consumer users will see significant system performance."

Charles King of Pund-IT Research told me, "I hesitate to roll out an old chestnut from the dot-com era, but I think we're seeing a convergence of multiple kinds of data and information across multiple platforms that is having a profound effect on consumers and businesses "This...

The number of users Apple and Facebook have "means that increasingly huge swaths of the Web are essentially closed to mapping by anyone but those companies," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Sergey's Dirge...

"As social networking has exploded in popularity, there are certain kinds of features and functions that users of Facebook and other social networking sites are used to having and like having, and Google's simply adapting Google+ to, if not emulate the competition, establish the same general theme of what users can expect," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld...

In the years since thin client computing arrived on the IT scene, it has been pronounced dead, only to arise again more often than Jason in the "Friday the 13th" film franchise. That's not due to any quality of its underlying architecture. In fact, thin client engineering is often elegant in the extreme and makes clever use of au courant mainstream technologies. But the two main benefits of thin clients tend to be counterbalanced by essential challenges: Cost -- The long-term costs associated with thin clients, especially operational and facilities expenditures (OPEX), are extremely attractive. But that is typically offset both by thin client infrastructure acquisition costs (CAPEX) and by the radical erosion of traditional desktop prices over time. When Windows NT-based thin clients made their commercial appearance in 1995, individual PCs cost about US$2,000 each. Today, the price of a standard PC is below $500 and still falling, placing steady pressure on thin client CAPEX and margins.

It could be that Microsoft believes AOL's intellectual property "offers significant armaments to its own portfolio that could provide both defensive support against possible litigation from competitors and offensive capabilities against those same competitors," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, speculated. "As hot as patent litigation has become, the AOL deal could prove to be a valuable investment."

"One of the most interesting things about [the hacks] is the degree to which they undermine the conventional wisdom about the technological prowess of China's government," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "The country has been fingered repeatedly for sophisticated cyberattacks on foreign governments and corporations and the systematic theft of state secrets and intellectual property, all of which it has repeatedly denied."

Major corporate realignments happen for any number of reasons. First and foremost, they aim to pursue and capture improved leverage of financial and human capital. Second, they can alter inefficient habitual behaviors and deconstruct unwanted corporate fiefdoms. Finally, they provide tangible proof to the markets of executive leaders' strategic vision. All these points are apparent in the plans HP announced last week.

FOSS solutions "are typically cheaper than proprietary software packages, but escaping long-term, onerous and often unnecessary support fees adds a sort of compound interest je ne sais quoi to the equation," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider Furthe...

Despite the comforting words, Microsoft's partners have reason to be worried, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told CRM Buyer. "I have seen a lot of large ERP vendors move into the cloud and go on to co-opt what used to be their partners' business," he said. "This is an on...