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However, "you can pretty much get everyone's mail in the Gmail app, and you can do the same in Outlook," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is incredibly late from Yahoo" and is designed to keep Yahoo users "from going somewhere else that better aggregates email services."

As I'm writing this, a few more hoverboards have caught fire, and they now are banned on most domestic airlines, suggesting that shipping these things fast could be a problem. ...

"CEOs are the face of their firm ... and ... what they say will impact their employees and their families, investor perceptions, and customer perceptions," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "For a service as widely used as Facebook, this doesn't come w...

"Developers should find advantages in using this toolset" because "it's focused on developers, and Microsoft makes a decent set of tools," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group There's little risk to Microsoft in going this route, and, at worst, its tool...

"Apple's a high-margin company, so you could argue everything they sell is overpriced," noted Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group. "That's part of their allure; they appeal to folks who like to think they don't care about price." Design Issues...

"People who are intense music fans tend to have big libraries and they tend to be influencers," O'Donnell noted. "Apple doesn't want to cut off people from using its services who are really strong influencers."The 100,000-song ceiling will have appeal to only a very small number of users, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Although it represents a nice sugary treat for Wii U owners, it may be too little too late for the console itself, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Wii U is on life support, and Minecraft is like a chocolate sundae -- nice, but it isn't the lifesaver t...

Steve Ballmer last week presented an interesting plan to kill Android -- or at least compete with it. What's ironic is that Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft wasn't short of good ideas -- it was short on execution. In contrast, Satya Nadella has shown strength in execution but (so far) hasn't come up with anything that represents the kind of risks that Ballmer was willing to take. ...

Support for Android apps technically would work as an extension of Microsoft's strategy to fast-track Android apps to Windows Phone, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Microsoft already banks big royalties from licensing its tech for Android, he told the...

"The Porsche electric car both helps and hurts Tesla," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It helps because it validates the all-electric segment and should improve the electric charging ecosystem. It hurts because it is a direct competitor to Tesla's hig...

"If you're in the media at all, there's a chance that someone is going to dislike something that you said and is going to try to damage your Wikipedia page," said Rob Enderle,principal analyst at the Enderle Group That behavior, though, fits a pattern -- a pattern that a syste...

The trend is toward sending more images and less text over mobile connections, but "this is problematic on slow networks," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Sites that don't adjust will likely lose a substantial amount of traffic as they either beco...

"This appears to be a huge win for Pirate Bay, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The question is whether it came too late, as the service has been effectively shut down for some time," he told the E-Commerce Times....

What I find fascinating is that with all of the focus members of the intelligence community place on violating our privacy, they still aren't able to stop attacks like the one in Paris. Currently they are complaining that it is our fault for implementing encryption that blocks their often-illegal views into citizens' personal lives. ...

LinkedIn needs to be transparent about how its algorithm works, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Suddenly they look like Ashley Madison -- not with respect to the leak, but with respect to being a fraud," he told the E-Commerce Times. "If they lose the...

Cost could be a sticking point for VR in the early legs of its race to the mainstream, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "If you make it cheap, the experience isn't good enough, and high performance tends to be too pricey," he told TechNewsWorld....

I started planning to escape the Valley a long time ago, due to very high taxes, a crumbling infrastructure, worsening crime, a massive increase in traffic, and a rather nasty water shortage problem. ...

The realignment of goals for Microsoft and the open-source community has brought success to both sides. Linux and Microsoft got off to a really bad start, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group That was "largely because those backing Linux pretty much had kil...

As CEO of VMWare, Greene encountered problems taking her company to the next level, recalled Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "She helped bring VMWare to market, but once it got to scale seemed to struggle with the firm," he told the E-Commerce Times. "There...

"Rather than installing software on every individual device, which would be a nightmare for anybody to keep up, it watches the behavior of the devices and then lets you know if any are performing badly so you can take them offline," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...