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Of course, Google's acquisition of DoubleClick will narrow the industry -- that is the point of the transaction. "The tendency of every industry is for companies to accumulate as much market influence and competitive capabilities as they possibly can," Charles King, principal of Pund-IT told the E-Commerce Times...

Nevertheless, there are more system-devouring beasts trying to get out of that closet all the time, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "The threats are still out there and are going through quiet periods followed by threats in areas where people haven't expected them. To date, the big companies are doing a credible job, but at one level they're forced to constantly fight a rear-guard battle. They're very good at continuing to update and improve the response to previous problems they know about."

"The two areas that Intel is aiming at is the small mobile device, and that's an intriguing market. It's not one that has taken off to the degree that anyone has hoped, but there are some signs that it's picking up a bit," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. The smartphone market, he noted, has been expanding at a good rate...

"Security is a primary concern for any service that offers online file back-up, but it's hard to parse out whether SynchWizard uses any security measures or solutions beyond password protection," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Established onli...

The new technology does make a "quantum leap" over what's been possible before, asserted Charles King, a principal analyst with Pund-IT "There are twin benefits here," King told TechNewsWorld....

"It sounds better organized than in the past," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The concept of hackers having access to essentially a treasure trove of server access data is pretty scary." It's likely too organized to be an individual hacker. "Th...

"It's interesting that HP and Dell both saw significant gains last year. Those two companies are largely dominant in the x86 Intel Xeon- and AMD-based server market. The x86 server market continues to really be a driving force in the server business overall. It continues to be the most rapidly growing part of the server market, especially from a unit-based standpoint," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT...

The deal is intriguing for at least two reasons. "EMC has been actively changing the discussion in the storage world away from data to a broader concept of information storage, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "They want to get away from talking about storage from the standpoint of bits and bytes that are tucked away into a broader discussion about how important information is for both individuals and businesses."

"I think part of the problem with the market for home servers is, there's been a great deal of confusion at the vendor level about defining what a home server is going to be," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "There has been a lot of visionary pr...

Yahoo needs to decide what it really wants, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "What's particularly fascinating to me is that there seem to be two scenarios running side by side," King noted. "One is we've got Yang saying that 'little Yahoo' ...

"The company's strategy to expand its own homegrown virtualization technologies is part of this larger plan to provide a sort of end-to-end computing product," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "The company is vocal in promoting the Solaris x86 as an alternative operating system, and Sun has been very active in promoting x86 on Innotek."

The acquisition represents a key move into IT services for Dell, said Charles King, a principal of Pund-IT "Now, Dell has fully mature offerings to online backup for e-mail, which I think is a service that will be particularly attractive to its enterprise customers," King tol...

Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, echoed Haff's praise of the "snap-in" design, noting that it would be particularly useful for customers with rapidly changing and growing IT infrastructures "I find Dell's focus on simplicity to be particularly notable. Simplifying ...

"The only circumstance I can imagine where a tech pro might overwrite or recycle a back-up tape would be after the information had been certified as being archived permanently offsite by an organization like Iron Mountain," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...

Much of the current OLPC-related confusion and controversy is due to the quickly changing conditions in developing countries, said Charles King, senior analyst at Pund-IT "When One Laptop Per Child's efforts began several years ago, the sense at that time was they were aiming ...

Yanai certainly is a star to those in the know, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "In the storage world, he's as good as it gets," Hill told TechNewsWorld. "He is largely responsible for what has been one of the most enduring enterprise-class storage systems on t...

Web-based collaboration is another area that up-and-coming in the CRM space, according to Charles King, principal with Pund-IT Google and Microsoft, of course, are leading the way. However, King told CRM Buyer that there are a handful of smaller firms that are offering similar...

"It's definitely a step up from the Microsoft Virtual Server product they've been shipping, which has been more of an introductory-type product. Hyper-V is designed to compete against VMware's ESX Server and some of the Xen-based products including Virtual Iron and XenSource," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld, noting that Microsoft will likely price the Hyper-V features well below any competing commercial products...

Yogi Berra's famous "This is like deja vu all over again," quote came to mind for Pund-IT Principal Analyst Charles King, referring to the browser-related antitrust ligitation against Microsoft in the United States during the late 1990s Let's Do the Time Warp Again...

Sun's OpenSPARC initiative is following a precedent set by IBM with its efforts to promote the Power Architecture through Power.org, Charles King, a principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider "Power.org has been quite successful and has led to some really interesting part...