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Novelty. Little practical value. Must be opt-in: If that doesn't spell mobile app material, then nothing does, said Charles King, principal of Pund-IT More mobile apps on the Android platform will be using facial recognition technology in the coming year, he told TechNewsWorld...

"This could be a very good move for HP to be seen as something of a white knight but also to get out from underneath the ongoing development costs that keeping webOS in-house would entail," commented Charles King, principal at Pund-IT Going Open With webOS...

New enhancements to EMC's Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform are designed to ease the way enterprises and service providers implement and access public and private cloud storage. VMware vApp packaging should simplify installation, and improved visibility and reporting tools provide the means to expand cloud metering services and improve administrative reporting and controls.

There are "very good reasons" for governments to have surveillance programs in place, but people are "now being surveilled by a much broader range of agencies and commercial companies than they have been before," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "...

"The fact that they're surreptitiously collecting keystroke information, websites visited and the general location of the user at the time they're accessing different websites or information with their smartphone, without the express permission of the users, is stupid beyond description," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld...

"Groupon is a good example of what can happen when the market realizes -- after the IPO -- that a company's competitive position will be considerably more complex and less advantageous than originally assumed," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times.

"The proposal sounds intriguing, but it remains to be seen if it will be implemented and how well it will work," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "That said, IT has become such a staple of life and business that acting in a more concerted way to s...

IBM's recent Information On Demand (IOD) 2011 conference came at the tail end of a particularly tumultuous year or so for the company's primary system vendor competitors ...

All of the above-mentioned factors may have come into play to one degree or another, but Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times that a meager sales rate is likely one of the bigger reasons. "The demand for Chromebook has not been what Google had hoped i...

"The problem with AIM and other competing platforms is that instant messaging has gone from being a feature to being a function," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, pointed out "People simply expect it to be there, and either use the same services as the majority of t...

"Sony has a terrific combination of content and platforms, including PCs and the PlayStation, to leverage for such an effort," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT told the E-Commerce Times. King noted that Sony is desperate for something to lift it out of the doldrums of the past few years...

Indeed, it's possible that if Microsoft had been split in two as the Justice Department wanted more than a decade ago, it might actually be a healthier company today, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "If Microsoft had been divided into consumer- an...

"In many of the scenarios discussed in the New York Times article, we're talking about a highly personalized version of what IBM has been pushing as the Smarter Planet," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld The Smarter Planet is IBM's vision of a wire...

The IT community has hardly been idle in this area, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "We are seeing large vendors like IBM and EMC and even HP working in this space," he noted. "Oracle too, although its position is a little cloudier. What they a...

"What we're seeing is evidence of a long-term IT trend," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "There are plenty of companies in digital commerce, and American Express is no stranger to handling financial transactions online, so it's not surprising they would invest for the long term."

"We're probably in that shift," commented Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Younger folks post astoundingly personal information on publicly accessible social networking sites "The real question is how business and governmental organizations will cope with employees...

Last week, Calxeda launched its ARM-based "EnergyCore" Server on a Chip, which the company said consumes as little as 1.5 watts -- the first server CPU to achieve this milestone. This makes EnergyCore ideal for workloads such as Web serving, Big Data applications, scalable analytics such as Apache Hadoop, media streaming, and mid-tier infrastructure such as caching and in-memory scalable databases, the company said.

"Certainly, routing traffic to cover or confuse the point of origin [of an attack] is a common practice worldwide," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld However, China monitors Web traffic and controls inflowing data "to a far greater degree than near...

However, Google is the current leader in online maps, so "sites will find it problematic to find an alternative customers will use," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Further, the integration of Google Maps with Android phones "means that sites [that move ...

"The ability to block -- or opt out of receiving -- ads from specific advertisers could help improve the search and online experience," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "It should enhance consumer choice." These new Google tools, King said...