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Healthy Centro Sales Fail to Lift Palm

Palm has frittered away a prime opportunity it once had to dominate the smartphone market, commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group "Palm is a company that should own the space occupied by RIM and iPhone," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "The reality h...

Quattrone Bounces Back with Tech-Focused Investment Firm

Quattrone "clearly does have a public perception problem that he'll have to recover from, but he was accused of something that was almost impossible for the general public to understand, and he was cleared," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I think he's in reasonably good shape."

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HP vs. Acer vs. Apple: The Fight to Come

Over the last two weeks, I attended a huge HP lab event, watched Apple launch the iPhone SDK brilliantly, and saw one of the strongest consumer laptop lines launched by Acer. All three vendors are growing in the 30 percent range in the PC market; Acer just passed Dell for the No. 2 spot in the notebook market; and all three vendors have smartphone efforts in their infancy...

Microsoft Gets Some Face Time With Yahoo

Similarly, the face-to-face meetings are a chance for Microsoft to soothe Yahoo's nerves about what a merged entity would look like, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "The goal of these meetings is to make the acquisition target comfortable ...

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The Beginning of the iPhone Rebirth

Last week was filled with what could represent the beginning of one of the biggest overall changes to the cell phone market. The short-term change was the announcement of a solid and apparently well-controlled developer platform coupled with the long anticipated Exchange integration announcement. However, bigger than that and longer-term was the announcement of Intel's new Atom platform, which forecasts the death and rebirth of a better iPhone...

Reports: EU to Remove Last Barrier to Google-DoubleClick Merger

"Microsoft was clearly trying to block this deal but, because they are not in best graces with the EU, their ability to do this was badly compromised," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "It reflects on the fact that Microsoft's competitors, like Google, have access to tools that currently don't work for Microsoft," such as getting regulators to take their side...

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Shining a Light on Unsung Heroes

I've been talking about heroes for several weeks now, most recently the folks at HP who are overcoming the company's internal bureaucracy to turn what had been a problem unit -- its PC unit -- into the most powerful PC entity in the world ...

Windows Live Hobbled by Daylong Outage

"This is really bad timing," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This is a platform that does use the new product, and it could have had something to do with the overall deployment of the new technology." Windows Server 20...

MS Pulls Curtain on Windows Server 2008

With its new features and enhanced tools, Windows Server 2008 has enjoyed a better reception than Windows Vista and has been deployed by a number of companies in beta, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "The product has been designed to han...

Judge OKs Class Action Over ‘Vista Capable’ Marketing

The suit likely won't impact Microsoft much except, perhaps, as a lesson, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "I think this showcases expectations that were missed at the front end with Vista," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Their big problem is getting ...

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Can HP Succeed Where IBM Failed?

Last week, HP turned in a financial report that seemed to provide a strong counterpoint to the view that the world was heading into a recession, or at least that tech was going to be sacrificed to that recession ...

Microsoft Loosens Its Grip on Proprietary Tech

While regulatory pressure drove some of the detailed moves, the changes are just the visible part of "one of the biggest fundamental changes in Microsoft since it became a major player," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told LinuxInsider "This truly is the early fac...

Yahoo’s Dilemma: Choosing the Right Partner for Microsoft Face-Off

Last week continued the excitement with Yahoo as it worked to get Microsoft to increase its offer by trying out alternatives but not really finding any good ones ...

The Metamorphosis of Microsoft Mobile

The latest changes are a reflection of larger trends within Microsoft, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "This is happening at an unprecedented rate across the company," he said, due to "the combination of a now aggressive acquisition strate...

Key Yahoo Shareholder Presses Microsoft to Up the Ante

"Going up to $40 will be tough," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Microsoft's offer was already 60 percent higher than Yahoo's trading price, so that will be really hard for Microsoft to justify." More likely, End...

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Microsoft, Yahoo and the Big Web Land Grab

I've had a little time to think about the Yahoo/Microsoft merger, why this makes sense and what could go wrong. This thing actually should be one of the easiest mergers of its type, and there is actually a strange amount of affinity, often taken for granted, between these two firms that most seem to not know about. In addition, I'm amazed at how many people are being outspoken on how bad the Macbook Air is, and I think it is time to re-look at just what a flagship product is supposed to be and reset expectations a little bit. Folks, once you understand what this product is intended to do, it really isn't that bad...

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HP’s Biggest Obstacle Is Microsoft, Amazon vs. Apple, Voting Smart

This last week I spent some quality time at HP, and I'm frankly amazed at what the PC team has been able to accomplish in terms of overcoming what I've termed the "Big Company Disease." ...

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Seeing (Red): Saving Lives Creatively, Protecting Against Political Lies, Product of the Week

Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week...

Microsoft Rockets Past Forecasts, Sees Strong Year Ahead

"Clearly they're in good financial shape," Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. While Microsoft had been seen as a mature, safe company while other tech firms were growing much faster, circumstances may help change that perception. "Over the last few years, much of their revenue has been almost institutionalized because it's built on large-scale enterprise agreements. On one hand, that means it doesn't change that much, but on the other hand, it means it may be relatively bulletproof when economic conditions change...

HP’s New SSD Desktop: High Efficiency, Dinky Drive

"Right now there is a huge focus on saving energy, and the EPEAT validation helps differentiate products that do a better job of that," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It is a way for the buyer to make sure they are getting something that meets a set of agreed upon green standards."

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