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Hack Lets PS4 Run Linux

"No harm will come to the hardware though. The only threat is just to Sony's security risk," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "There is no upside for Sony to allow it. I expect Sony will do everything it can to shut it down," Enderle told LinuxInsider....

Human Computation May Be Key to Solving World's Wicked Problems

Crowd experts could fix problems of all sizes someday, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group For example, human computation can impact "litigation, both case law and discovery, primary research on trends and causes," he told TechNewsWorld. "Politics ...

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CES Insanity in 2016: The Cannabis Defense

CES is probably the best example that folks who work around tech are just a tad insane. While no big product has yet emerged, there will be a ton of crazy stuff to see. ...

Backspace Flaw Enables Linux Zero-Day Attack

Much has been made of the relative security of Linux systems compared to Microsoft PCs, but this flaw shows Linux users "have to be at least as observant and reactive as everyone else," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Easier Said Than Done...

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Looking Ahead to 2016

Next week is CES, and I am so looking forward to coming home from that show. It used to be a lot of fun, but it covers such a massive amount of space that just getting around takes up much of the time. ...

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2015: Looking Back at an Amazing Year

This year has offered some brilliant lessons from a variety of vendors. Among them were a lot of lasting lessons like we had with 3D TVs, which pretty much bit the dust, and 4K TVs, which are doing reasonably well in light of what people actually learned. ...

Congress Passes Budget Bill With Controversial Cybersecurity Provision

Adding CISA to the omnibus budget bill "is why folks don't trust the government," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's fundamentally antidemocratic," he told the E-Commerce Times....

WhatsApp Brouhaha Breaks Out in Brazil

Given the climate of terrorism and the widespread unrest in the world, other governments, including the U.S. government, are taking the same position as Brazil's, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's a shortcut to evidence, and one thing that's t...

Musk and Friends Launch OpenAI

On the other hand, "even when focused on not doing evil, often excitement about the technology can blind the researchers to what's prudent," pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Can Bias Be Avoided?...

Seattle Lets Ride-Sharing Drivers Unionize

Unionization just might be a move of a chess piece, part of larger effort to raise independent contractors to employees. Whatever the motive, court battles involving ride-sharing networks have been redefining what independent contractors and employees are, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Disgruntled Yahoo Investors Suggest Different Paths Forward

Since the Yahoo board began to consider a change, all of the above options have been on the table, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Right now, the company looks incredibly weak," he told the E-Commerce Times. "They started with a poorly thought...

Yahoo Ropes In Gmail

However, "you can pretty much get everyone's mail in the Gmail app, and you can do the same in Outlook," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is incredibly late from Yahoo" and is designed to keep Yahoo users "from going somewhere else that better aggregates email services."

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The Trouble With Hoverboards and Lithium-Ion Batteries

As I'm writing this, a few more hoverboards have caught fire, and they now are banned on most domestic airlines, suggesting that shipping these things fast could be a problem. ...

Zuckerberg Has Muslims' Backs

"CEOs are the face of their firm ... and ... what they say will impact their employees and their families, investor perceptions, and customer perceptions," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "For a service as widely used as Facebook, this doesn't come w...

Microsoft to Open Source Chakra JavaScript Engine

"Developers should find advantages in using this toolset" because "it's focused on developers, and Microsoft makes a decent set of tools," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group There's little risk to Microsoft in going this route, and, at worst, its tool...

Apple's Pricey New iPhone Battery Case Gets Very Little Love

"Apple's a high-margin company, so you could argue everything they sell is overpriced," noted Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group. "That's part of their allure; they appeal to folks who like to think they don't care about price." Design Issues...

Apple Cranks Up Music Storage to 100K

"People who are intense music fans tend to have big libraries and they tend to be influencers," O'Donnell noted. "Apple doesn't want to cut off people from using its services who are really strong influencers."The 100,000-song ceiling will have appeal to only a very small number of users, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Wii U at Long Last to Share Minecraft Gold

Although it represents a nice sugary treat for Wii U owners, it may be too little too late for the console itself, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Wii U is on life support, and Minecraft is like a chocolate sundae -- nice, but it isn't the lifesaver t...

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Steve Ballmer's Excellent Android Adventure

Steve Ballmer last week presented an interesting plan to kill Android -- or at least compete with it. What's ironic is that Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft wasn't short of good ideas -- it was short on execution. In contrast, Satya Nadella has shown strength in execution but (so far) hasn't come up with anything that represents the kind of risks that Ballmer was willing to take. ...

Ballmer Points Out Error of Microsoft's Ways

Support for Android apps technically would work as an extension of Microsoft's strategy to fast-track Android apps to Windows Phone, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Microsoft already banks big royalties from licensing its tech for Android, he told the...

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