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Indeed, "I think the most important thing to remember about the tablet market is that we're really in early days here," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, pointed out Most tablets so far have been positioned as "complementary devices," King told LinuxInsider. The iPad...

In opening its new Mass Lab on June 16, IBM stated that the facility that will focus energy and attention on mobile computing technologies. For me, that point recalled Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?, Louis Gerstner's memoir of his time at IBM. Hired when the company was on the brink of collapse, Gerstner forced the company to shift its navel-gazing attention outward to customers and the rapidly evolving computing market.

"I'm not sure I'd describe VMforce as social networking in app development as much as collaboration, though the two aren't mutually exclusive," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Maybe it's better to typify VMforce as a collaborative platform with a social...

Here's what HP says its new Web-enabled ePrint all-in-one printers will allow people to do: ...

News of Dell's upcoming Streak device arrived as the news about tablet computing heated up. Apple's iPad continues to sell like hotcakes, passing the 2 million milestone and leading analysts to suggest that total 2010 iPad sales will reach between 5 and 7 million units. ...

"I would say this clearly qualifies as the next step in the EDS acquisition, although coming some 20 months after the acquisition you would have thought they would have identified the need for additional layoffs earlier in the process," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times.

Nevertheless, "it's obviously a tragedy when any person decides to take their life," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm heartened to hear that Apple, HP, Dell and Foxconn itself are cognizant of the tragedy of these deaths and doing everything they can to try to address any work-related issues that might have contributed."

Intel's next-gen Atom processor-based platform (formerly "Moorestown") caused quite a stir in the news and among mobile computing aficionados. On the technical side, Intel seems to have delivered the goods. The platform includes Intel's Atom processor Z6xx Series Family (formerly "Lincroft"), the Platform Controller Hub MP20 (formerly "Langwell") and a dedicated Mixed Signal IC (MSIC) (formerly "Briertown").

The speech was "a worthwhile wake-up call of sorts," said Charles King, a principal analyst at Pund-IT "In the tech world, certainly for the last 30-something years, there's been a difference between high-tech toys that people play with and high-tech tools that people create ...

Last week, VMware and Salesforce.com announced a new partnership around VMforce, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering aimed at enterprise Java developers. The companies' CEOs Paul Maritz (VMware) and Marc Benioff (Salesforce) described VMforce as an enterprise cloud designed to serve the needs of more than six million enterprise Java developers, including some two million who are using the Spring framework VMware acquired last August when it purchased SpringSource.

"If I were to compare this purchase to a real estate deal, Palm is definitely a fixer-upper," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. However, there could be a substantial upside to the purchase. Palm has a dedicated base of business users who w...

"I think the U.S. defense industry continues to be a growing concern," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "It has been for decades now -- it consumes an enormous portion of the federal budget." Of course, "despite the billions of dollars tha...

"This seems to me to be a model where the cloud is being used to provide the essential infrastructure to support the efforts of Java developers," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told CRM Buyer. "It's a broader sort of use case than we've seen in many cloud strategy discussions that have happened over the past few months."

Perhaps all is not lost. "In the short term, the company will suffer a very badly blacked eye," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "But it could mitigate long-term damage by doing all it can to resolve the problem. Accepting responsibility, keeping efforts to correct the problem completely transparent, and doing everything you can to help clients is how I'd suggest McAfee should proceed."

Intune is an extension of Microsoft's move into automating updates. "This is the next generation of the offloading of system optimization that began with automating Windows updates," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Using Intune will take the burden and c...

Many IT analyst events qualify as exercises in ridiculous self-promotion, but IBM's recent Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet event at the company's Almaden Lab had a more sublime goal in mind: to qualify the hot topic of workload-optimized systems and quantify their value to business partners and enterprise customers. Along the way, the company drew a firm line connecting these solutions to its Smarter Planet initiative.

The offering makes more sense when viewed from Paramount's perspective, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "It is a good way to squeeze out new revenue for films that may be off of people's play list," he noted.

City administrators must look at the cost of support for open source. "Support service is a primary source of revenues for many Linux vendors," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Labor costs are 10 to 20 times the cost of the software in almost anything, s...

The benefits of smart meters and other such devices are incremental, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "When you aggregate them, you can get potentially impressive numbers," he said Utilities can not only become more efficient, but also get...

Sooner would be a lot better than later, suggested Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Given the significant differences between iPad and Slate, HP would be well advised to get it out on the market as soon as possible," he told TechNewsWorld....