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"So far as I can see, the change simply alters users' news feeds via an algorithm that supposedly prioritizes what they'll be interested in most," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "More mind-reading by machine, in other words." Facebook is trying...

"I think there are two things going on here," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, suggested "One, 'Foldit' is a game that attracts the competitive sort of gamer who likes puzzles, and this seems to be the type of puzzle where intuition and the natural ingrained ability...

"From a market dynamics perspective, Google is a must-have partner today," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Focusing first on smartphones is a strategic move because "from a commercial perspective, Android-based phones, which as a group are outsel...

"Gaming is one of the most typical areas where overclocking is used," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. For example, Alienware systems are configured for manual overclocking to compensate for demanding games or apps, while Intel's Turbo Boost automatically overclocks a system when that's required by an app or workload...

VMworld 2011 occurred a couple of weeks ago, but the energized crowd of 19,000-plus attendees and the raft of VMware and partner announcements that accompanied it make it worth revisiting. I'll start by considering VMware's central position in two of the IT industry's most dynamic sectors: virtualization and cloud computing. ...

"Two failed turnarounds under a company's belt is about as much as a shareholder can take," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. First it was Jerry Yang and then Carol Bartz. Yet Yahoo remains one of the Internet's best known brands." Yahoo ha...

Security "is more an issue around how the VMware infrastructure is implemented in a company's IT infrastructure than a weakness in the technology itself," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "You can have the most expensive and high-security locks in ...

First, there was the taint of the firm's previous leadership, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT The TouchPad runs on Palm's webOS, which HP acquired when it purchased Palm under the leadership of then-CEO Mark Hurd, who left under a cloud....

Aug. 12, 2011, marked the 30th birthday of the IBM Personal Computer (PC) -- an event marked in numerous congratulatory and cautionary articles and blog posts. In the days since then, PC-related news has remained thick on the ground. ...

"Overall, I'd say the ruling -- which is the third time a federal court has ruled in favor of firms offering similar services -- puts a serious dent in the music industry's attempts to regulate the Web," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm on the side of the online providers. I don't condone illegal file-sharing, but the music industry's attempts to quash behavior and intimidate individual consumers has been reprehensible -- the legal equivalent of squashing a fly with a baseball bat."

"[Succeeding in the embedded systems market] would be a stretch,although HP's history in industrial measurement equipment may offerthem some ins there," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "The embedded OS space is extremely crowded," King told TechNewsWorld."But t...

The timing of AT&T's new text messaging plan is interesting considering Facebook's new service, which basically sidestep carriers completely, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "We may be seeing the end of text messaging as a cash generator for ser...

The timing of AT&T's new text messaging plan is interesting considering Facebook's new service, which basically sidestep carriers completely, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "We may be seeing the end of text messaging as a cash generator for ser...

"They expanded pretty rapidly, both through acquisition and organic growth," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "In the last year, their ambitions have expanded beyond the market's enthusiasm for the company." There was also an increase...

IBM Global Services (IGS) is an organization the company's customers love to use and its competitors love to hate. That is, when they're not trying to copy it. ...

"Facebook becomes the universal translator of personal data," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "It's interesting because personal computing is all about levels of abstraction. As people's lives online have evolved, the connections online become more tangential, more tenuous. There are few ways besides passwords to identify yourself online. When you sign on to a website and use a password, they believe you are who you are because you used the password. But that might not be the case."

"What's interesting to me is that Dell set up this tablet for both work and play modes with a security firewall of sorts between the two," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-It, told TechNewsWorld Other tablets on the market don't have such an integrated approach, King po...

"I think what we're seeing is a mature response from the Anonymous hackers that may surprise people who may think of them as a one-size-fits-all engine of outrage," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times Perhaps that moderation is due to division...

Intel's recently announced plans to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems, a privately held fabless Ethernet semiconductor company, may seem counterintuitive to some. Founded in 1999, Fulcrum develops integrated, standards-based 10- and 40-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch silicon designed to deliver low latency and workload-balancing capabilities, along with superior network speeds.

"What they've done in a sense is use the public as a test bed for streaming services, providing it as a free addition to a standard Netflix DVD rental, and it gave them enough time to work the bugs out of the system and also to create appetite for those features," Charles King, principal analyst at PundIT, told the E-Commerce Times...