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Adobe Sees 2022 Holiday Season Sales Hitting $209.7B Online in US

Adobe's growth predictions may be too rosy, maintained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore. "Given the potential for a catastrophic event, man-made or otherwise, with global implications before year-end, I think this estimate is optimistic," he told the E-Commerce Times...

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Killing Twitter, With Tesla as Collateral Damage

Will this be the deal that breaks Elon Musk? He's a risk-taker which has proven to be a good thing in many ways. Businesses like Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink would have either failed or failed to launch successfully without him ...

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Nvidia and the 3D Future of the Internet

There is a lot of work going into creating the next generation of the web. Most of it is focused on the concept that rather than traditional web pages, we'll have a very different experience that is far more immersive. Let's call it "Web 3D." ...

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The World Is Not Yet Ready for Electric Cars

A TED Talk by Graham Conway, principal engineer at Southwest Research Institute, asserts that electric vehicles are less green than ICE cars, and it is well-argued. While I don't agree with all of Conway's metrics, the point he makes is valid, which is that the things we need to do to make an electric vehicle green truly have not been done yet ...

Researchers Find Consumer Satisfaction Remains High for PCs and TVs

Streaming programming has also contributed to consumer satisfaction with TVs. "With TVs embracing streaming, they have become far more capable over time, and they are, in terms of appliances, relatively problem-free," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore...

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Intel and How Autonomous Driving Will Fix the Electric Car Problem

I was in Israel last week to tour Intel's impressive facilities there. While most of the trip was focused on Intel's Israel Development Center (IDC), there was also a presentation on Intel's Mobileye facility in Israel. This division, which will eventually spin into an IPO (a move that will have to wait until the market recovers), is the group that drove Intel's autonomous car efforts...

Upstart Search Engine Andi Delivers Answers, Not Lists

"If you're going to compete with a dominant product like Google, you find a niche that Google doesn't want to meet -- in this case, answering questions -- and you come up with a service that does a better job," explained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore...

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The Future of Satellite Phone Communications

Last week Apple launched new iPhones with several interesting new features. One feature reports if you have been in an accident (assuming your phone can connect), and another connects the phone to a satellite in a very limited way for those times when a cellular tower is out of range ...

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AMD vs. Intel: Suddenly the Desktop PC Is in Play

Intel needed AMD in the early days of the personal computer because IBM, and others, wouldn't buy a technology that was single sourced ...

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The Coming Wave of Next-Generation Home Solar Companies

I was an early adopter of the current generation of solar technology when I put panels on our San Jose house in the early 2000s, only to watch the yield from those panels drop sharply over the following 20 years ...

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Qualcomm and the Mobile Video Game Revolution

The video game market is divided into five segments: legacy PC and console, evolving mobile devices -- mostly phones but some tablets, and the emerging cloud. That's four, I'll get to the fifth segment in a minute ...

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Nvidia and Disney Can Breathe Life Into the Metaverse

While Netscape didn't invent the internet or HTML, it was the company that made the internet real. Netscape advanced with Tim Berners-Lee's creation of HTML and was instrumental in turning it into something that changed the world ...

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The Metaverse Future: Are You Ready To Become a God?

This week is Siggraph 2022, where Nvidia will be doing one of the keynotes ...

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Sensible Tech Advice for Back to School

We're coming up on another school year, so it's about time to start shopping for school supplies. I love summer but walking around on what feels like a frying pan has made me wish for the coolness of air-conditioned classrooms ...

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Lucid, Nvidia and the Rapidly Changing Future of Electric Cars

Last week I listened to a podcast from Lucid Motors SVP Mike Bell (ex-Apple, ex-Rivian) on what makes the Lucid Air and the coming Lucid SUV code-named Gravity, due in 2024, so very different from every other car on the road, including Tesla ...

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Musk-Twitter, Qualcomm-Apple, Netflix-Microsoft: Deciphering the Insanity

Last week was crazier than usual in the tech world -- which says a lot ...

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4 Industries on the Brink of Technological Disruption

One of the stories told in management classes as an example of a recurring mistake companies make when their industry is transitioning focuses on buggy makers at the turn of the last century ...

Rapid EV Adoption by Low-Income Drivers Needed To Curb Climate Change: Report

Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore. agreed that low-income and disadvantaged people who drive cars are important to decarbonization of the atmosphere. "That is where most non-compliant gas cars likely reside, making it a critical milestone in reducing automotive-based pollutants," he told TechNewsWorld...

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The Importance of the Metaverse Standards Forum

For most of us, the metaverse is mostly hype about the promise of a new internet that we could explore virtually. As it's currently implemented, the metaverse is reminiscent of the networked world pre-internet. It is represented by a bunch of very different and unique attempts to create what seems much like a walled garden approach, more like AOL and CompuServe than the post-Netscape internet that we enjoy today...

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The Birth of Google’s ‘Sentient’ AI and the Problem It Presents

One of the big news items last week was that a leading AI researcher, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended after going public that he believed that one of Google's more advanced AIs had attained sentience ...

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