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Apple "would have likely used [the permanent injunction] as a way to set a precedent and go after products that are more current," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Losing its bid for the injunction would not have a great influence...

Dell World 2012 was fascinating this year for a number of reasons. First, Bill Clinton was the big keynote and he didn't disappoint. I think he took an interesting Libertarian view on how the U.S. government could fix the financial problem. Unfortunately, he implied that the first step would be to get rid of the politicians whose zero-sum game was pretty much assuring a really bad outcome.

"Right now console games and PC games are competing with an awful lot of other things that are eating up kids' discretionary money," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The money that would typically go for games is being pulled in so many directions that there's a smaller pool for games." ...

Last week was defined largely by two interesting stories. One had Apple bringing some manufacturingback to the U.S.(some interesting thoughts on this here),and the other revolved around the outcome of the latest trialbetween Apple and Samsung. ...

That kind of consolidation is only likely to continue, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "I think telecom is coming to the conclusion that they need some connection to content, now that the content owners are starting to look at ways to get to the user dir...

That kind of consolidation is only likely to continue, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "I think telecom is coming to the conclusion that they need some connection to content, now that the content owners are starting to look at ways to get to the user dir...

There's another irony in Facebook trying to expand into application-based messaging, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Social media has displaced messenger apps," he told TechNewsWorld One of the reasons for that is interoperability, he added.

"The lead-in to this story suggests an employee at NDB that was warning that the data wasn't being adequately protected decided to make his point in a career-ending fashion," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Given the lack of protective controls -- which allowed him to download and exit the building -- it is likely NDB heard of the theft from the employee and then overreacted."

"With governments and politicians, you have to separate what they say from their intentions," "Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked. "For instance, an effort to promote harmony might in fact be the government-sponsored assassination of opposition parties."

I spent much of last week hanging out with Lenovo. Although much of what we chat about in thosemeetings can't be repeated, one thing I can talk about is how Lenovo almost stands alone in defendingthe PC. While there seems to be a consensus that the PC is dead and being stomped into its grave bywave after wave of smartphones and tablets, Lenovo missed that meeting. In a market defined bydecline, it has demonstrated double digit growth...

"This is more of a laptop alternative than an iPad alternative," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked. "It is targeted at the unhappy MacBook Air users that were disappointed in the iPad." Microsoft did not respond to our request for more details....

"Given the heat that Apple has received and Samsung working to be the anti-Apple, Samsung is stepping out to make sure factories building their components aren't mistreating workers," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They saw Apple get pilloried, and they have no desire to share that experience."

After seeing the new Microsoft offerings, Steve Wozniak recently lamented that Microsoft is nowout innovating Apple. Wozniak is the surviving founder of Apple, and his perspective clearly isimportant, but he was the guy who got the product to work. It was the other Steve who was largely responsible for creating the entity that was Apple, and it was the other Steve that made it a huge success.

"This comes down to the privacy rights of individuals and companies, and the incredible investigative power the United States has since the Patriot Act," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This doesn't address the fact that what is being done may be illegal, but it does make it far harder to get evidence without committing a crime to get it by the media industries."

"It's a geeky product -- certainly far from mainstream," said tech analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. "[They need to] figure out how to provide a higher-resolution output and put the thing into a more pleasing form factor," he told TechNewsWorld.

We've had a couple of weeks to think about the election outcome, and both sides are positioning the results around the issues. This has become so divisive that there is a significant move by Texas to exit the United States and become a country. ...

"What few know is that while the larger and more expensive Kindle didn't sell as well as the original size, the users were far more active and loyal," Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Keeping your most loyal users happy is a good strategy for any vendor."

"What likely came about is that Sinofsky went to Bill Gates, and going over Steve Ballmer's head -- or any CEO's head -- to the chairman of the board is generally career limiting -- or eliminating," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Ballmer wants a t...

"This potentially goes well beyond medical use," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "In different forms, it could be used for anything from clothing to upholstery. Think of longer-lasting self repairing leather, depending on its wear patterns. Because i...

"The sudden nature of this suggests some kind of personal problem," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Departures in the past that were this sudden had to do with affairs with employees coupled with improper expense approvals, theft, etc." Another line ...