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"Particularly in the middle of the country and in the Northeast, U.S. brands appear to do far better," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Motorola is also looking into advanced technologies, company CEO Dennis Woodside and advanced R&D head Regina...

For one thing, it could deploy tighter targeting, suggested Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group. "If you tightly target ads and content to users, then you are far less likely to put content and ads together that don't belong together," he told TechNewsWorld.

"Samsung has done what no other vendor was willing to do and took thefight to Apple," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the EnderleGroup. "They basically worked to destroy the perception that Apple'sproducts were magical and special, and after first copying Apple'sproducts, then innovated on those copies -- and now Apple is chasingSamsung."

There is an interesting battle forming between the most powerful game console with the most potential, Microsoft's Xbox One, and Nvidia's Shield -- a rebel platform that I think is worth a look. ...

"The big story here is that with these improvements prices, weight and battery life on Ultrabooks will come very close to tablets," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "That'll make for a really interesting choice because most of these systems are expected to have touchscreens and ship with Windows 8.1 for the holiday season."

"Gamers just want to get into the game and play. Messing with drivers and doing manual optimizations gets in the way of the experience," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The folks that like to do all of this themselves can still tweak their systems, ...

Call of Duty has a massive following; it is arguably the most entertaining in its class," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Because it will push visuals, it will help drive people to the new consoles," he added....

"This technology has been chasing a moving goal line for awhile, which has made it very difficult to market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "They need to get yields up, the price down, and improve the color performance of the product...

"Watson can provide a set of solutions much more quickly than other systems, and a relatively low level of training would be needed for the [customer service representative] answering a call," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "If this were done on-line, Watson could also make suggestions about how to reword the query better and, through interaction, get the answer through iteration. This might be far more satisfying than the non-answer you might otherwise get."

The Xbox One offers "some solid improvements and an impressive industrial design," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group It features built-in Kinect functionality, including the ability to monitor the user's heartbeat while working out. The build-in 1080p ca...

Apple and Google are currently at the top of the mobile device heap, but both companies are vulnerable at the moment. Apple has lost its iconic CEO and appears to be chasing Samsung, and you can't lead by following. Samsung is the dominant player on Android, but Google and Samsung are having relationship problems at the moment. Both have been quietly expressing dissatisfaction with the other...

Google is going about things the wrong way, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Social is not a battle about features or the technology," Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "People go where their friends are, they don't go to clubs to enjoy the LED lights."

"Folks upgraded their phones aggressively, but new customers fell off in favor of other brands," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Further, because Apple is now available at multiple outlets, including Wal-Mart, it has "lost its exclusivity advantage a...

"When we combine quantum computing with artificial intelligence, we tend to get something like an ultrafast Watson -- that is, the ability to analyze information at an incredible rate and identify patterns, but not make the intuitive leaps that we normally equate with real intelligence," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Growth in those transitional areas may be slow and steady, as Chambers put it. However, the company is proving that its shrewd partnerships are paying off, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group "Overall, Cisco is far more focused than they were, and their partne...

Google's focusing heavily on games because "with Nvidia's Shield, also based on Android, pushing the limits here, I think Google sees this as a massive opportunity to differentiate against Apple," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Google's...

In hindsight, Microsoft's smartphone strategy appears to have been flawed. "When they went to Windows Phone 7, they went full consumer and abandoned their business efforts," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "I think we'll find that that was a mistake."

"BBM is for BlackBerry what iTunes is for Apple, being enough better -- faster and more secure -- than other alternatives that it could spread like iTunes did, and so could bring others into BlackBerry's family of users," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

"It allows people to purchase and contain expenditures to a large extent," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "You're encouraged to buy a bunch of it. You're basically giving Amazon your money and assuring you will only use it on Amazon. It ensures your future expenditures will happen at Amazon."

I've been focused on and off on turnarounds since I covered IBM's from the inside out in the 1990s, so I don't know how I missed this, but EMC2's turnaround was clearly a success, and its unique resulting organizational structure is incredibly subtle. ...