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Google Beefs Up Phone App’s Spam-Fighting Skills

"For me, mobile spam calls are a nightmare," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I get calls throughout the day now, and it's incredibly annoying," he told LinuxInsider....

Aquila Test Flight Carries Facebook’s Internet Ambitions Aloft

"They'd need a lot of traffic controller work," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The drones will fly at heights of more than 60,000 feet in order to avoid commercial aircraft, according to Facebook, but "military planes -- especially spy planes -- fly...

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Windows RIP: Thankfully It Died With Windows 8

As we approach the end of the free Windows 10 upgrades this month and get used to the anniversary edition, it suddenly hit me the Windows we knew died with Windows 8 -- what we got with Windows 10 really isn't what we've come to know as Windows. ...

Tinder Social Feeds More-the-Merrier Impulses

It's doubtful the new social tool will do much to grow Tinder's overall membership base, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I don't think it's a big enough feature to do that," he told TechNewsWorld. "However, it will increase the service's utility, po...

Snowden Puts His Mind to Designing Spy-Proof Smartphone Cases

That's good thinking, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "There are some really nasty rootkits in China that self-install when you go to a compromised website and pretty much open your phone up to complete remote control," he told TechNewsWorld, "and ...

Teal Pushes Drone Speed Limits

However, "I don't see a huge need for users to run apps on drones," commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Most people just want the thing to be easy to use and not crash," he told TechNewsWorld....

Google Transparency Report Shows Government Data Demands Rising

"Boy, look how efficient the U.S. is," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Two users for every request. Australia, on the other hand, has more requests than users." The Struggle to Preserve Privacy...

Yahoo Posts Weak Earnings as Assets Sale Waiting Game Drags On

Until Yahoo gives investors an idea of which direction the company is going, little real growth will take place, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They are effectively in limbo until we know who is buying them and what their new game plan is," he to...

Congressional Committee Report Finds Something Rotten at FDIC

"The FDIC effectively controls the finances of the country," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Every U.S. company and every U.S. citizen is at risk if the FDIC fails. I don't think there's any possibility of overstating how bad this is," he told t...

Microsoft Unveils Enterprise Windows 10, Surface Pay-as-You-Go Plans

One is Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) which is "basically the OS wrapped with security and management delivered as a subscription," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Another is the Surface as a Service Program, which lets Micro...

Google Dabbles in Post-Quantum Cryptography

"I doubt that we can develop a defense that works before we actually have quantum computers, because there's no way to actually test something against a platform that doesn't exist," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Still, this approach could be ...

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Parsing the Clinton Email Scandal

I've been watching the Clinton email scandal closely, because I not only have been in and out of law enforcement and security for much of my early life, but also was an internal auditor for IBM and one of the leading email experts in the 1990s. I think this is the only time I've seen an investigator channel a prosecutor in making a recommendation, and give someone a pass without addressing why crimes were committed. ...

Augmented Reality Mobile Game Puts Pokemon in Real World

"With all of the recent focus on VR, where there are still too many different platforms and too few users or good games, we kind of forgot about AR, which works better than VR with existing mobile platforms," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Pokemon...

Facebook Live Video of Shooting Aftermath Triggers Anger, Anguish, Questions

"Typically, posting something that showcases someone getting shot would be an automatic delete," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group However, that's not the case "if it has to do with abuse of power and you position yourself as a news service," he told Tec...

Musk Defends Autopilot Safety Record Following Fatal Crash

More importantly "the technology Tesla has deployed isn't what we currently are working on for self-driving cars," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It is enhanced cruise control, linked with accident avoidance and lane keeping; it has neither the rich ...

Feds Probe Philanderers’ Site Ashley Madison: Report

Disclosures arising from the FTC's investigation will make it more difficult to reposition Ashley Madison as safe for customers, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Ashley Madison "will want to create a new image -- but as the evidence from the inve...

HummingBad Mucks Up Android’s Works

HummingBad "is very hard to identify, very difficult to get rid of, and massively invasive," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Alphabet has had a very poor reputation with regard to security, and it will be watched closely to see how quickly and perma...

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What If We’ve Got Big Data and Analytics All Wrong?

Every once in a while I run into a little company that comes at an existing market as if the folks already in it are idiots -- and sometimes they are right. Here's the thing: What often happens is a company breaks out in a segment, and everyone groups around that company's ideas and emulates them ...

Nothing Ghostly About Devialet’s Phantom Gold Sound

If a listener wants to tap into the full potential of Phantom Gold, however, Bluetooth isn't the way to go, advised Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Given the typical compression of the sound coming out of a Bluetooth device, you most likely won't hear the ...

Amazon Pushes Dash Buttons as Customers Give Them the Gong

Still, there are incremental steps that are critical for Amazon to undertake in order to create a more efficient and cost-effective means of shipping goods to its best customers, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The goal, in theory, is to make it...

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