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The ISPs "don't want the government dictating what they do," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "With the best of intentions, governments often require methods that are both expensive and relatively ineffective, and network managers, who are already overworked and under-resourced, expect that the government will simply make things worse."

Andy Rubin was Google's Steve Jobs, and with him now booted off the Android product, that platform in its current form will pass. It is kind of funny to see the spin on this, which suggests this was Andy's decision. Yeah right, and I'll be buying that bridge in Brooklyn shortly. ...

"They continue to have the best titles, and they are not yet playing up their next-generation product like Sony is," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Sony announced their offering but isn't selling it yet, and that typically will stall the product in market." ...

There is little doubt of BlackBerry's security bona fides, Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "BlackBerry has the only volume platform designed from the ground up to be secure," he said. "There are a lot of companies and government agen...

Twitter's move indicates that "discovery is beginning to eclipse access as a differentiating feature," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group How Not to Be the Next MySpace...

"Yahoo is all about content and engagement," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Games cover both bases, and people that are playing games stick with the site and can consume in-game. It is consistent with their content-centric strategy." Yahoo and Zy...

"The key here is the app that translates what the reader is seeing into something a regular driver could use in real time," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I have one I bought off Amazon, but it works like a regular reader and doesn't provide real time information."

"If you already have a ZigBee wireless solution the lights should work with that, although you'll likely have limited functions unless that existing application has Hue features," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld About the Hue Bulbs...

It is very difficult to pull off a turnaround. This is because you typically start with a company that isunprofitable and lacking the resources to compete. You have employees who are still on the job only because they haven't been able to find another one, and you're selling products that few want to buy. ...

HTC may be looking to stand out from the smartphone pack by manufacturing a branded Facebook phone, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "HTC is in trouble, they haven't had one really breakout phone from the standpoint of sales in a while, and they need so...

"Piracy has been a massive drain on the industry, and companies have been blaming it and game resale on their falling sales performance," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "As a result, they are aggressively attempting to correct the problem through streaming and pervasive connections which destroy game play in places where networks aren't always available or free, like planes."

It's no surprise that both Vodafone and Verizon would want to explore options for changing their relationship, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. While global partnerships might look good on paper, there is often too much going on beneath the surface for the relationships to be truly mutually beneficial...

Enhanced gesture technology "allows the computer to see in 3D real time, and we are just scraping the surface of what that will allow," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. The most obvious use for such technology is in robotics, he added Ho...

"The amount of this fine means the EU believes that Microsoft's excuse is viable but that the firm was still responsible for compliance," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The amount is to assure they don't make the mistake again but reflects that they believe Microsoft didn't intentionally do this."

IBM just announced SmartCloud Orchestrator -- a massive open source initiative designed to help companies better balance public and private cloud resources and even switch vendors. This is in sharpcontrast to the lock-in strategy that IBM used to found the technology segment -- largely because IBM learned the hard way that lock-in, while tactically sound, is strategically stupid.

"They're attempting to build a massive game that will put the collective minds of thousands on this problem," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's a very interesting idea, but I expect they will run into some serious challenges in making it happen with regard to how they parse the data and apply the collective results."

All in all, it was a class act, Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Mason has set the bar of leaving a company elegantly and gracefully very high now. That was incredibly well done." His forced departure is not surprising at all, said End...

The move isn't just a win for iOS and Android; it could be seen as one more area where BlackBerry's ailing marketshare is going to take more flak, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group "This was almost their exclusive playground," he told TechNewsWorld. "Opening...

"They're chasing the low price point, so, if you want a 7-inch tablet, they'll have the cheapest in the market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's a way to get volume and maybe to get a seat at the table, because right now none of the PC makers is doing well with tablets."

This really has been an entire month of the strange. We had Boeing's Dreamliner sidelined for a problem that used to give laptop makers heartburn -- batteries that catch fire. We had Tesla proposing a test to The New York Times that would make its new Tesla S look bad -- and when it did, we had Tesla's CEO screaming foul on Twitter. ...