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"On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the kind of exploit suffered by Target or TJ Maxx, this would probably rate a 2 or 3," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Still, "no vendor likes to be seen as being unable to keep its customers' personal inform...
"What's really notable about this particular technology is how unobtrusive it is," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld While there have been "a ton of CGI-inspired people in robotic suits" in popular movies, "what I think is really intriguing abou...
"Though quantum computing is still in its infancy, its potential is significant enough to justify sustained effort and investment," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT Given that some early systems have not performed as well as hoped, Google's investigation of a...
"It's critical for Dropbox to find new outlets for service revenue that they can use their infrastructure and basic architecture for," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Mailbox is a piece of that," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Having a single app that can sp...
Ironically, the greater IT accomplishments become, the harder they are to see. Consider Intel's latest achievement: the new Broadwell architecture that shrank microprocessor manufacturing from the previous generation 22-nanometer Haswell process to 14nm. Since a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter (a human hair is about 100,000nm thick) you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference without an electron microscope.
The very idea that Facebook would do something like this is "almost something out of the Onion itself," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld It's not uncommon for sites such as Literally Unbelievable to chronicle occasions on which Facebook users h...
"My first thought is, you have to start somewhere, as in utilizing what might be called 'passive robotics' for simplistic tasks like delivering extra towels or a toothbrush to hotel guests," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld Aloft's announcement...
"Apple and numerous other vendors have been under pressure from a variety of groups due to complaints on worker safety, environmental practices and related issues," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "To their credit, many of these companies have been actively pressuring suppliers in Asia and elsewhere to clean up their acts."
"I think there's genuine cause for concern, but I'm not sure that formal regulations will do much to curtail improper use," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "For every potentially abusive case, you could probably describe a completely legitimate a...
"Along with the transition from real horsepower, there's also the dreadful toll that what might be called a "generational ignorance" of technology -- by older, set-in-their-ways commanders who willfully refused to acknowledge the impact of new weaponry -- took on men in the trenches," said history buff Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT...
"What FB could do to stem claims and improve its handling of user privacy runs up against a key issue; the elemental tension between Facebook's business model and its users' privacy," said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT. "The thing is that Facebook tends to regard its use...
Oracle announced the Exalytics in-memory platform back in 2011 and began shipping it in 2012, "but that was more of a general purpose in-memory hardware play," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. The Exalytics servers supported third-party data sources including ...
"Not to be too cynical, but I seldom see much pure altruism in industry-led efforts like Internet.org," said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT. "Instead, companies are essentially early investors in emerging markets they hope will someday become financially self-sustaining ...
"The product comes in a range of styles from those aimed at primary school education to maker-inclined individuals and groups," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld ...
More than likely, brick-and-mortar retailers will find a way to circumvent the worst effects of this technology, speculated Charles King, principal of Pund-IT. Several years ago, when barcode apps first appeared, retailers like Best Buy would counter the trend by covering ba...
"At first glance, this strategy is a natural attempt to leverage Sprint's business-centric services and solutions with the native integration of Google Apps in Android phones and tablets," Charles King, a principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "That point ha...
"While the Internet remains highly popular among those living in urban areas, usage is not penetrating rural regions where people are poorer and less educated," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Unless China's government develops a workable stra...
"While online sales theoretically create a level playing field where all can compete, it has resulted in massive, industry-wide consolidations that have largely benefited a well-heeled few while gutting traditional industry players," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...
"As technology becomes more powerful and portable, we've been seeing an increasing number of devices that act as companions to more powerful PCs, laptops and smartphones," said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT. "Wearables like FitBit and emerging smartwatches qualify as on...
As for next week's powwow, "I think this qualifies as a 'progress report' meeting, in that the EU wants to know whether companies are properly complying and what they are doing to accomplish the removals," said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT "An interesting thing about the...
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