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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. ...

"It will have enough power to do so," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "They'll just need to create a VM or emulator that will accept the games, and it would be a no-brainer to do that in order to sell more consoles." It is unlikely that Sony will ...

Offering the Chromebook Pixel at a price higher than $1,000 "is like saying a netbook doesn't sell well at $200, so let's try $1,500," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group said. "Even the premium-priced MacBook Air is cheaper." Google did not respond to our requ...

Google' s plan is to get the product in the hands of early adopters and build a test audience. "There are groups of folks who love to be the first to have something, like to brag about it, and become advocates," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group told TechNewsWorld. "They have people paying to be beta testers." ...

In general, if you like Outlook, you will like Outlook.com, Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWord. "It is very similar in terms of the layout and the approach." Hanging Onto Hotmail Users...

I watched in horror last week as Tesla's CEO Elon Musk attempted to turn a New York Times reporter into the next Ralph Nader and kill his company. It brought back memories of the ChevroletCorvair that died as a result of GM's decision to fight what turned out to be false allegations instead ofjust making the car better. ...

"It is like video phone mail, but I can't picture anyone who would want to use it," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The business use isn't there, but it could be something for kids who want to leave messages for parents or a modification of a grandm...

"Sending people on long drives in electric vehicles is just begging for problems, because they just aren't optimized for that kind of driving," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Elon Comes Out Swinging...

"The products create their own isolated grid network, allowing you to put any sound source into any room or into all rooms at once -- party mode -- using either a dedicated wireless remote or your Apple or Android phone," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

I'm not asking the question, "Could Apple follow?" because the amount of cash that would need to be raised would be mind-boggling. Most thought that taking Dell private was impossible, and once you get past "impossible," degree doesn't make that much difference. ...

"The Surface Pro has full-on Windows 8 with all the bells and whistles, but it's still a Surface tablet with an Intel core processor," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "It's heavier than the RT and the battery life is only 4-5 hours," End...

That emphasis on going as local as possible is what helped Yelp thrive when it launched, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. Its heavyweight competition, however, is also growing "Going local was really their forte, and being able to offer close-proximity inf...

"I think what's happening is the president's setting up to move unilaterally in case he sees a pending threat," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "In a cyberthreat, the nature of the attack is it will happen when you see it, and he wants to be able to shut down the attacking nation, which would involve a preemptive strike. Given the case that governments are likely to be involved in these attacks, it's likely our government is looking at cyberdetente."

"HP had their own OS when they bought Palm, so why didn't they do something with webOS?" asked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "It seems kind of silly to go with an inferior OS. Free is great, but they already had one they paid for, so the move seems kind of foolish."

What folks who haven't read any of the early Steve Jobs biographies don't know is that Steve Jobs -- atleast, the way he was seen in public -- wasn't any more real than Ronald McDonald. ...

"Sony just released a new special edition PS3, so if this is a PS4 announcement it is horribly timed because the announcement will kill the special edition," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group However, Sony had continued to support the original PlayStatio...

Apple is still doing relatively well, but its valuation is falling like a rock, while Nokia and RIM areascending from catastrophically low levels. Yet judging from Twitter feeds and relevant articles, it appears the people who disbelieve that Apple can fall are matched by those who can't believe RIM and Nokia will recover ...

However, the laws of a country supersede the private rules of a company only if the company is physically in that country, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. With the Internet, "things become fuzzy," he said, because a company may not have a physi...

Marketing toward corporations is the direction the company has long been taking, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, even if it's at the expense of consumer-based operations. "Enterprise is the direction it's been headed since the first part of the last ...

"[This is] incredibly durable tagging for living things -- tagging that could transcend generations," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The most obvious use would be to record rights into genetically created plants and animals to preserve rights and prevent illegal cloning/copies."