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"This scenario is a how-to for bringing the U.S. to its knees," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The reality is worse than the test identified because network traffic isn't properly monitored at the moment. Anything that uses a common network, from smart traffic lights to newer power distribution systems, would cease to function properly or fail outright," he told TechNewsWorld...

I spent last week at the annual Intel analyst conference and was impressed by what I saw, but I started connecting the dots between what Apple is doing with the iPad, Google is doing with the Nexus one, Microsoft is doing with the Zune and Xbox, and Intel is doing with its Atom/Moblin efforts, and I had an epiphany. ...

How Aardvark will mesh with Buzz or the other pieces of Google's expanding social media structure isn't yet clear, but it seems likely the search giant will combine the various elements into a socially oriented search system, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

Optimus could prove to be a game-changing technology, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "When Intel set Larrabee back, graphics went back to being a battle between Nvidia and ATI," he pointed out. "When Intel comes back at graphics in a couple of years, expect a technology like this to be baked into their solutions and into AMD's Fusion when that arrives as well." ...

With Hathaway's appointment, Cisco is taking what appears to be a stronger, lobbyist-style approach to getting government business, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Cisco's focusing on government business because it's potentially a str...

The iPad has captured much of the technology coverage so far this year. It is a poorly named copy of a product that Microsoft launched nearly a decade ago, based on a concept Steve Jobs personally thought was stupid: the tablet computer. Yet Apple has effectively convinced the market that its device is new, different and desirable -- and managed to create a major industry event around it. ...

"Yes and no," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Consumers may pay more, but they should also get more hot titles earlier, and competition should eventually kick in where there will be more variety of book prices and specials to get people to buy, but it may take a few years for that to work itself out. Initially, consumers will pay more. Eventually, once we fully convert to e-books, they may pay less."

We need high-level coordination between countries as well as between law enforcement agencies here in the U.S., Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "In addition, well-funded, properly trained mitigation and investigation teams are required to quickly identify and eliminate the threats and prosecute the attackers," he said. Countries that provide safe havens for criminals should be cut off from the common networks, he added...

The technology and consumer electronics markets are awash with companies that seem to be barely meeting expectations or are, like Sony, Sun and Yahoo, on and off death watch. They aren't alone; the relatively new Obama administration seems to also be failing, and the latest State of the Union address wasn't particularly inspirational. ...

That could spur changes in what people post on the Web. "Many peoplemay not fully understand that what they put up on the Internet isindexed and can be found by strangers," Rob Enderle, principal analystat the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Social Search will likelyget people to think more about what they put up online."

Oracle has a fight on its hands to maintain customers -- over theyears, its customers have been flocking to third-party serviceproviders to cut costs. "Oracle does a good job ofprotecting customers, but it's far from cheap," Rob Enderle, principalanalyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

This is an Apple launch week, which means we'll be on pins and needles until we actually know what Steve Jobs is going to have on stage in San Francisco. ...

"Amazon appears to be aggressively moving to prevent erosion from the upcoming launch of Apple's tablet and other rapidly arriving competitive offerings," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It realizes that, in these early phases of market creation, the initial leaders are seldom the vendors who eventually own the market and wants to make sure it doesn't become one of the losers." ...

Another reason could be that corporations don't like change, pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Once IT locks onto a technology and standardizes on it, getting them off it is like pulling hen's teeth," he told TechNewsWorld. That unwillingness t...

"If you're a platform vendor, punishing your platform partners because of a dispute with a local government isn't wise," pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Google could appear untrustworthy from the standpoint of the carrier and cellphone manufacturers in the region, which could effectively lock them out of China."

Last week, I spoke about how CES was back, and I gave some of the highlights. However, there always are discussions and trends going on behind the scenes, almost-invisible products, and impressions that take a while to form that can be even more interesting. ...

"The wireless industry is trying to get ahead of the curve," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Once you set a rule on the wired side, it wouldn't be hard to bring it over to cover the wireless side, and most of the world is expected to go wireless," Enderle explained.

The Green Touch project should have no problem getting buy-in, Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce times. "Governments should like this trend a great deal, and I would expect they'll have no problem getting on board," he pointed out. "It may end up simply being a problem of keeping the folks that have to approve announcements down to a manageable level." ...

I was at CES last week, and the magic was clearly back in this show. In the past couple of years, CES has been dominated by one device -- making it more like a one-product waste of time. Two years ago, everyone was talking about the iPhone, making many of us wonder if we were at the wrong event. Last year, it was the Palm Pre, which turned out to be a bit of a flash in the pan. This year, it seemed at first that the Google/HTC Nexus One would steal the show, but there didn't appear to be any lasting buzz on that device by the end of the first day. Attention had shifted elsewhere...

Microsoft's deal with HP will make Bing the default search engine and MSN the default home page on the latter's PCs. This may help boost Microsoft's push into the Internet search market. "HP is the market leader in PCs, so this deal should be significant," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.