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AT&T, Verizon and WhatsApp Flunk Privacy

"Both companies operate in heavily regulated areas and recognize that the government has unusual power over them," explained Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group "They are therefore used to complying with requests like this in order to avoid escalations that could massi...

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3 Things That Will Change Electronic Entertainment Forever

E3 -- perhaps the biggest and most important gaming conference in the world -- took place last week. Sony and Microsoft came ready to do battle, Nintendo showed up, and we were up to our armpits in little companies doing amazing things with virtual reality. ...

Skies May Soon Be Friendlier to Amazon Drones

"Certainly, this would be a major step towards using drones for a lot of things, ranging from defibrillation machines to jump starters for cars," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "The big problem is ensuring people aren't harmed by these devices, and th...

Google Takes It to the Streets

Sidewalk Labs probably will create "things that are highly and much more completely instrumented -- then tie that instrumentation to automated city management systems, services and planners," suggested Rob Enderle, principal at Enderle Group "The benefit for Google is that th...

Linux Foundation Beefs Up Scholarship Program

The Linux Foundation training programs are essential for the continued growth of Linux, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "If you want to sustain a platform, you have to ensure people are formally trained in it. Proprietary firms fund colleges and unive...

Swiftkey Security Slipup Exposes Samsung Smartphones

The news will weaken Samsung's security message for some time, said Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group That said, "if security vulnerabilities in phones had a high impact on consumer demand," he told TechNewsWorld, "Android wouldn't exist in the market today."

Nintendo’s E3 Direct Gives It to Fans Straight

Fils-Aime mentioned mobile when he highlighted Nintendo's big moves this year, but that and its other new ventures may be too little too late, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The problem is, Nintendo is becoming increasingly irrelevant, he said....

Amazon May Try Out Delivery-Sharing

Crowdsourcing would allow Amazon to get "more feet on the street," noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "Like Uber, where you have lots of drivers on the street to pick up people, Amazon would have more drivers to move packages," he told ...

San Jose to Dabble With Smart City Tech

"WiFi is a local area networking protocol," noted Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group. "It typically isn't a good long-distance protocol." On the other hand, WiFi should be an important connectivity medium for smart cities, "particularly for latency-insensitive applica...

E3 2015: Evolution or Stagnation?

"Amazon, Nintendo and Steam are all pushing ever-more-powerful alternatives, increasingly using cloud services -- much like Netflix used streaming to take out DVDs and tapes, to relegate the old market to the Blockbuster dustbin of history," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

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Anatomy of a CEO Failure

Much to Apple's dismay, I cover Apple events. One of the questions that frequently came up during its recent developer conference centered on Tim Cook. Was he becoming Steve Ballmer? The implication was that Steve was a failure at Microsoft, so the comparison didn't reflect well on Cook. ...

Cisco, IBM Bet Big on OpenStack

"In both cases there appears to be an effort to double down on OpenStack in the hope the result lets them develop a solution that will scale," said Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group "Neither company is yet willing to abandon OpenStack, and both feel there's still a ...

Amazon Seeks Talent for Ambitious PC Game

Amazon has a powerful back end, noted Rob Enderle, principle analyst at the Enderle Group. The company also has partnered with graphics hardware manufacture Nvidia in the cloud space, he pointed out....

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The Best Unsung Features of Windows 10

There are things about working with large companies that can be really frustrating. For instance, when both Windows Vista and Windows 8 were coming to market, a number of us pointed out that things needed to be fixed before the product was released, but we were ignored, with catastrophic results. ...

Auto Grade Linux Steers Closer to an In-Car Infotainment Standard

The automotive market is an inbred industry, which poses "a significant problem for adopting any technology," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Those that have been successful, like Nvidia and Qualcomm, have developed nearly complete solutions. That app...

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Doppler Labs Kickstarts ‘Bionic Ear’

While starting as a niche product, that could change over time, noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "This could evolve to become far more useful and encompassing as designs make it more attractive and its features become more broadly appre...

Nintendo Scotches Android Console Rumor

Yet if the rumor should turn out to be true, the Android OS may be the big winner -- and Nintendo's decision to embrace the mobile OS might even be a bad thing, said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, in a discussion prior to Nintendo's rebuff of the Nikkei rumor...

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HP vs. Apple: The Contrast Is in the Turnaround

I was at Dell's analyst conference last week and HP Discover is this week. As I was considering the contrast between the two companies, I started to think the contrast between Apple and HP is greater. ...

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Apple vs. Lenovo: Lenovo’s Coming-Out Party

If there is one vendor on the planet that has the capability to fight Apple -- on paper, it is Lenovo. Lenovo this week will hold its annual Lenovo Tech World event in China, showcasing the company's new breadth. ...

Spy Agencies Planned to Corrupt Google Play

"Let's step back from intent -- just because the Five Eyes agreed not to spy on each other doesn't mean they themselves can't be hacked or their methods used by others, both domestic and foreign, who are not a part of this arrangement," said Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group...

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