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Aging at Home, Part 2: Some Tech to Watch Over Me

Along with patient portals for family and physicians, health monitoring and alerting systems have been mainstays in homes refitted to keep elderly family members in place, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group PERS, or personal emergency response systems...

Microsoft Challenges Oracle With SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 will let users host Microsoft's Azure cloud locally "so it will also run on premises on a local Azure instance," pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This may be one of the strongest hybrid solutions we've seen so far, given the near...

HP Chromebook 13 Wins High Praise – for a Chromebook

"These are solid improvements, but they don't address the core problem -- that the platform is considered to be crippled," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This is like taking a Smart car, which is largely seen as crippled, and wrapping it with gol...

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Under the Shadow of Steve Jobs: Why Trump May Be Unbeatable

One of the frustrating things for me during Steve Jobs' time was that most of the folks who watched Apple go from nearly dead to the most valuable company in the world didn't seem to see anything really unusual. It was more like they were watching a great tennis player win match after match and seemingly concluding, "damn, what luck!" ...

Microsoft Curbs Cortana in Windows 10

However, Cortana "is an AI interface to search, integrated as a feature in both Windows 10 and in Bing," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's basically a voice interface into Microsoft's search technology," he told TechNewsWorld, "and getting it to i...

Yahoo Expands Board to Appease Contentious Investor

The announcement of a new board structure is the first step toward necessary changes among the top management, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "One of Yahoo's problems is a board that really didn't understand Yahoo's business or could execute well on a...

Alexa Takes Up Residence in a Really Smart Fridge Magnet

"The idea is a good one, the execution less so," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "What makes the Echo, Dot and even Tap good is that they are very easy to set up and use, and they are relatively attractive," he told TechNewsWorld....

Google’s ‘Area 120’ Incubator Aims to Keep Innovation In-House

"Google's latest financials showcase that their massive number of moonshot products are starting to dramatically hurt their financial performance," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "You'd think they'd bring on board a function that could bring products to market, not another moonshot or incubation function."

Facebook Messenger Lets 50 Friends Get In on a Call

"As we move farther and farther from traditional PBXs and wired phone lines to VoIP services, many of which are either very cheap or free, telecom companies are going to lose this revenue," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They've had plenty of warnin...

Apple’s Books, Movies Fall Victim to Chinese Crackdown

The Chinese government may have been looking to send a message to any company that stands up to its censorship policies, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "China doesn't have an anti-Apple agenda, but there are a lot of books and films they don't want th...

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Why Is the PC Industry Trying to Kill the PC?

Every time the "PC is dead" topic comes up, an old Monty Python movie comes to mind, and I'll bet you can guess which one. PCs are on almost every desk, and the installed base is measured not in the hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands -- it is measured in the hundred millions. ...

Unicorn Herd Threatens Silicon Valley, Warns VC

Gurley has sounded the alarm about a potential dot-com bubble with pre-IPO -- not post -- implications, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group One result is that he's become enmeshed in a bit of a social media war with Marc Andreessen, who has dismissed G...

With Latest Opera Browser, Everybody Gets Free VPN

"Building in a VPN isn't a bad idea, but most users don't know what to do with a VPN," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group For that reason, the new feature isn't likely to be something that will enhance Opera's place in the browser standings....

Red Hat Goes All-In on OpenStack

Red Hat is "considered the best hardware-independent enterprise Linux platform," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group It plays best with companies using generic hardware or those that pit hardware vendors against each other, so "they often have one of the ...

Apple’s MacBook Refresh Draws Tepid Response

"Basically, all of the innovation for this new notebook came from Intel, not Apple," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The Skylake processor "is Intel's strongest effort to get their arms around the need to blend performance and mobility," he told Tech...

SCOTUS Turns Its Back on Google Books Challenge

If Google were to promote books it has digitized and use excerpts to introduce readers to authors and get them to buy their books, Google Books "could actually become a powerful book-selling tool," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group When someone buys ...

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What the Traditional Car Companies Don’t Seem to Get

Two interesting events took place this month. Tesla announced its Model 3, a relatively affordable electric car, and it attracted around 180K preorders on the same day. That was before the company actually revealed the car. There were more than 250K preorders in the first 36 hours. Oh, and the run rate is about 1,500 per hour of preorders for this car right now. ...

FBI Paid Hackers to Defeat Security of Shooter’s iPhone

"From a macro perspective, it's incredibly stupid" to work with the gray hats, argued Rob Enderle principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's in line with negotiating with terrorists or kidnappers," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The larger outcome is generally worse than the...

Amazon’s Kindle Oasis: Lightness of Being at an Unbearable Price?

"I'm not sure they hit the right mix here," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The ePaper products typically have been toward the bottom of the price range -- not toward the top, he pointed out.

Officials Named in Panama Papers Cower Behind China’s Great Firewall

"There's clearly a willingness to take the risk of getting caught in China," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "There are simply too many connections between the West and the East for a strategy like this to work." Beijing's best strategy would have be...

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