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Nexus 7: Economical, Yes; Repairable, Sure ... but Profitable?

"At Google, they tend to do the product first and figure out the revenue later," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They should get a percentage off of app sales and clearly will get money from the ads consumed with the device. But they don't have the retail engine Amazon has, so much of the revenue for this device will be developed over time." ...

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Google's Nexus 7: Who's Sweating Now?

The iPad is an interesting product. It is basically a light Mac netbook lacking a keyboard but with touch. Had any other company brought this to market, it probably wouldn't have sold. ...

SEC Lowers the Boom on Falcone

"From the outside, this appears to be another very wealthy person operating in a highly regulated area discovering that the related rules are enforceable even against the very privileged," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "The current environment does not favor a multibillionaire accused of self-dealing playing the victim card, and I doubt this will end well for him."

Banished Best Buy Founder Plots to Reclaim Throne

The road ahead will be tough for Schulze if he means to take over Best Buy, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It's very hard for an individual to do a buyout like this unless they've got some board support," he told the E-Commerce Times. "In lieu of that,...

Google Makes Its Play in Tablets

"At 7 inches and a $200 price point, [the Nexus 7] is making a value play for the core of where the iPad currently is," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Google is betting that a lot of folks are happier with their laptops for creation and would rather have a device that was focused on consumption, particularly if it was priced closer to a portable DVD player."

AI System Learns to Recognize Faces and Felines

This self-learning network "should also be able to read expressions and determine the breed of cat if given enough visual information," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Training the System...

Google TV Gets Do-Over With Vizio Co-Star

"To a certain extent, this is a way for people to get access to services very inexpensively," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Subscriptions will be required, however....

Facebook's Email Bungle: Not What It Did but How It Did It

Facebook should have opened the debate before it made the change, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "To make a move like this without discussing or explaining it is not a smart way to treat people and would tend to get existing customers to distrust ...

More Surface Rumors Bubble Up

"Right now, 85 to 90 percent of the market is using WiFi because data plans are so expensive, and it's probably a better solution to offer a WiFi-only tablet for use with a tethered smartphone than to have a tablet with its own data plan," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

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The Death and Rebirth of Microsoft

Last week, Microsoft effectively ended the model that created it. This shouldn't have been a surprise,as the model hasn't been working well for years and, as a result, Microsoft has been getting its butt kicked all over themarket by Apple. ...

WinPho 8 Update Gap: Microsoft's Got Some 'Splaining to Do

"Everybody faces this problem -- hardware capabilities are going through massive changes and new operating systems won't work on the older devices," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld However, he said, the way Microsoft handled it was unusu...

Google Embarks on Language Rescue Mission

"Projects like these have two purposes," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "One is to improve a company's image -- and Google, as the new 'evil empire,' definitely needs that at the moment. The other is so you can acquire and retain a key resource, and at the core of the man/machine interface is language."

Microsoft Joins Windows and WinPho at the Core

Developers "go where the customers are, and [the shared development platform between WinPho 8 and Windows 8] will increase the weight and importance of Windows," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Games People Play...

Microsoft Tablets Surface, but Will They Float?

However, Android tablets haven't really caught on and are vulnerable, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "When these [Surface tablets] come out, they will be offered and supported in a premium fashion very similar to the iPad. The Google tablets can't get to this level."

Google Sounds Censorship Alarm in Free World

"There are two reasons for Google's response," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "When they give in to censorship they look weak. The second is that it is damn hard to manage. It requires a substantial number of folks who can manage the process, and moreover any law or edict is open to multiple interruptions."

IBM's Sequoia Towers Above All Other Supercomputers

"IBM has been building systems like this for decades, and has some of the most advanced R&D in this area," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Uses for Sequoia...

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The Best Windows 8 Laptop in the Market: The MacBook Pro Retina Edition

When testing a new operating system from Microsoft, finding the right hardware is often the biggest problem. Many of the negative reviews of Windows 8, including my own, are tied to the hardware that just wasn't designed for it ...

New Vizio Line Sleek, Light and Kind of Apple-ish

The Vizio laptop and netbook "look a lot like MacBooks, and I think you could argue that the edge treatment actually makes them look thinner," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld However, "Apple buyers like the entire white-glove experience,...

Obama Signs Order for Full-Bore Broadband Expansion

"The one thing simplification efforts often don't do is make things simpler," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "I think the intent is there but often federal agencies do their level best to assure these things won't work as intended largely because of turf issues."

Big Guns Dueling for Domain Rights in Internet's New Wild West

"It depends on how many users are going to use something like dot-grocery, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. "Getting people to move from the dot-com to dot-grocery could require some training on the user's part." There is also the issue as to whethe...

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