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Some "applications" are misnomers of a sort, which may indicate how undeveloped cloud computing is currently, said Charles King, principal with Pund-IT "Oddly enough, I'm not sure that true cloud innovation is happening quite yet at the application level," King told TechNewsWo...

Companies' tracking tools can make a big difference, noted Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT.However, all tracking systems are not created equal "I noticed that a few smaller retail sites make it pretty hard to track packages or interact with customer service," King ...

"The underlying issue driving this is that as computers become used for increasingly complex and large problems, you run into some serious challenges with how to approach those problems in traditional linear computational fashion," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld...

"The Gates Foundation sure gets a lot of ink -- in part because of its sheer size and the addition of funding from Warren Buffett -- as do Paul Allen's eccentric post-Microsoft activities and charities," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "I mean -- come on, who wouldn't want to be remembered as the founder of the Jimi Hendrix museum -- the Experience Music Project?"...

"Typically, when Intel makes an update as significant as Core i7, the first adopters are typically in the high-end desktop," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "Given i7's video graphics capabilities, it sounds like it'll be a good choice for a h...

Clearly, collaborative applications and strategies are Microsoft's focus in this version. However, it may be mistaken to assume that Microsoft is seeking to take on any of the best-of-breed providers of such technologies, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...

"Cisco's been on a mission of sorts for the last couple of years -- to communicate the fact that innovative, intelligently designed network solutions can do a lot to ease the flow of data from one location to another," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT told TechNewsWorld. "I think the ASR 9000 fits into that strategy."

"I think their approach -- leveraging a mix of traditional loyalty, e-mail and CRM programs, as well as social networking -- is an interesting mix," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told CRM Buyer. "It gives their clients a way to experiment with -- and mix and match -- combinations of offerings to find the right fit for their customers."

"The arrival of the iPhone and the G1 Google phone, along with the Windows-based smartphones and BlackBerries, are getting people to think about exactly what is a smartphone?" Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "In the traditional sense, a smart...

"For Yahoo to move forward, it basically needs to leverage whatever research and development projects it [has], and to either create new products and services or to match those products and services of its largest competitors," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-It, told LinuxInsider...

Getting a handle on all the different types of Web-hosted systems is difficult in itself, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "The sheer variety of options makes this hard to define precisely," he told TechNewsWorld. "They range from highly specialized solutions an...

"I'm pretty underwhelmed by WiMax so far ... it's taken so long for it to roll out that really, from what I've seen, the 3G networks have more than doubled their subscriber base from about 11 million to 27 million over the last year," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld.

Oracle was likely searching for a way to ratchet up the competition with IBM, Charles King, principal of Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "It is something of a disadvantage to go up against IBM, which has both the software and the hardware to play with to develop highly customize...

Some sellers have moved on to competitors such as Amazon.com, said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT "I think a lot of the mom-and-pop retailers are probably looking to see if there are opportunities," King told the E-Commerce Times. "Amazon has been getting a prett...

eBay's new strategy is sound, Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "I think you could liken it in military terms to the company going after what might be described as 'high-value targets,'" King said.

"Dust and humidity is dealt with in a couple of ways," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "The keyboard is actually sealed. The inputs like USB (universal serial bus) have rubber removable covers," he explained. In the case of Dell's offering, Ki...

"Two or three years ago, I think the assumption was many if not most people would be upgrading to new generations of laptops and desktop systems much more quickly than they have been," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "[But] the last generation of chips was very, very powerful -- I think powerful enough for the vast majority of the applications most people use," he noted...

Nvidia is facing other headwinds as well, Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Computer graphics is the type of product that is extremely sensitive to other issues going on in the economy. Someone whose credit is overextended and is wondering if he ...

"The effective search is obviously critical in the world of the Internet," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-It, told TechNewsWorld. "There's really astounding growth in the sheer amount of information and documents that companies are storing and attempting to manage successfully," he said...

"Juniper is getting a strong executive with extremely solid managerial and sales skills," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "The division he ran at Microsoft has 14,000 employees, and for an executive to have that kind of managerial oversight at a...