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Why Tablets Are Tanking

Boy, we really have gone full circle on tablets -- and not just once. Back when the Windows tablets first came to market, a whole bunch of us predicted it wouldn't be long before they replaced all of the notebooks. I don't think they even made it to 10 percent before the tablet market collapsed, and the pre-existing forms reclaimed their shares. ...

Microsoft Hits the Brakes on OneDrive

"Unlimited only works if you can contain the amount within available and affordable resources," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It was believed there would be hard limits naturally set by upload and download times, but with a fast enough connectio...

Film Industry Claims Victory in Shutdown of Major Piracy Sites

"The history here is typically when they shut down one site, another one pops up," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Their best efforts to reduce or eliminate piracy would be to make movies far more accessible and far more affordable," he told the E-C...

HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Go Separate Ways

The split is another symbol of the company's failure to adapt to the rapid changes taking place in the increasingly cloud- and mobile-dominated technology industry, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. The failure to react to those changes resulted ...

Google Fine-Tunes Self-Driving Cars' Kid Perception

"Anticipating and avoiding people is a major component of self-driving car efforts and will likely (include) an early-warning feature," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group That could include programs that can react quickly to fast-changing situations, "lik...

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Using Tech to Fix the Horrid US Political Debates

I watched with interest last week's Republican debate and realized very quickly that whatever that was on my TV, it sure as hell wasn't an actual debate. The idea is for us to be able to compare the qualifications and positions of a variety of candidates and then make a more informed choice -- but if every candidate is asked a different question, then how do we compare the answers? ...

Google Migrates Project Loon to Indonesia

"With the recent failure of the military-tethered blimp, which took out a lot of power lines, you'd think they'd want to rethink this," commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Still, balloons are a cheap way to provide Internet access, he told TechNewsWor...

Tablets Losing Ground to Big Smartphones, Light PCs

Tablet users have been able to substitute larger smartphones to replace many of the functions of their older tablets, making replacement purchases unnecessary, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "For many, their phone is now good enough, and they a...

Sony Talks VR and 2016 Games in Paris

Some of the biggest news wasn't released in a singular announcement: PlayStation VR, previously code-named "Morpheus," is a serious contender in next year's virtual reality war, and Sony has the software to see the VR headset succeed, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at theEnderle Group...

Microsoft Opens Tony Fifth Avenue Store

Apple, whose store is just down the block, "didn't open their flagship store first either," pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at theEnderle Group "Often, it takes a combination of the right location and right vision," he said. Microsoft's original vision "didn't appea...

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Why Dell-EMC Won't Follow in HP-Compaq's Footsteps

Why do some big mergers succeed while others fail? This seems to be a common question, and some of the research I've read about the Dell-EMC merger tries to connect it to the HP-Compaq merger, which apparently cost Carly Fiorina her job. ...

YouTube Red Offers Paying Customers Ad-Free PewDiePie

If YouTube Red fails to take off, "this will be the third failed attempt to create a paid Google video service," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. However, if the content is "really different," he told the E-Commerce Times, it should take off....

System 76 Unleashes Wild Dog Pro

The Skylake processor makes more of a difference for Linux support than anything in the box, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Typically with Linux, you are left to the mercies of the Linux forums -- which can be really hostile and unforgiving -- and ...

MIT Machine Does Big Data Analysis the Human Way

"In effect, you're replacing a person -- a data scientist in this case -- and they're hard to get and spread very thinly," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at theEnderle Group "Even 87 percent is better than you'd likely get with someone untrained, and it could be close eno...

Apple Music Converts 6.5 Million to Paid Subscribers

"It is a decent conversion rate for a new service, but given the size of Apple's customer base and historic loyalty, I'd have expected a higher number," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Within Apple's base they can certainly challenge Spotify -- outside of it, not so much."

Google's Nexus 6P and 5X Win Some Love

That said, "Nexus is supposed to be a technology-leading line, and moving to Type-C is consistent with its positioning," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group ...

Nintendo, Video Game Industry Rescuer, Turns 30

Nintendo revitalized gaming after Atari collapsed from too many really awful games, and "as a result, figured out the need for curated content and ensuring game quality," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, "and put in place a quality certification program, which pretty much is at the heart of every game system and app store today." ...

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Could Musk Be Tim Cook's Proxy for Jobs?

Elon Musk must have been channeling ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week, when he commented to the German Press (he does get that this Internet thing takes his comments global, right?) that Apple wasn't poaching Tesla's good employees, it was getting folks who couldn't cut it at Tesla. Apple apparently has been paying a lot for ex-Tesla talent...

Yahoo's New Email App Dumps Passwords

"Pretty much everybody is on this path of getting rid of passwords before one of them goes under because of identity theft," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at theEnderle Group "Identity theft has become a serious problem, and the level of compromise has been impressive," ...

Half a Dorsey May Mean Trouble for IPO-Bound Square

Square is acknowledging that one man cannot devote his entire being both to running its business and taking charge of such a major entity as Twitter, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group However, the layoff announcement at Twitter will have no direct impact...

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