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If Steve Jobs or Yoda ran Microsoft They Would Abandon Cell Phones - Strategically Stupid, Practically Smart - A lot of discussion is going on today about whether Microsoft should abandon the consumer market htt...    more
Did Henry Louis Gates Just Doom the Obama Presidency? - Obama Has a Friend Problem - One of the primary foundations for a leader who is vastly different racially, sexually, religiously or in any other major fashion is to appear impartial with respect to that difference.    more
Apple's Board: Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Steve Jobs Returns: Would Apple Rather He DIdn't? - Sometimes you have to feel sorry for Apple's board in that they both need Steve Jobs and he is likely their biggest problem to deal with.    more
The Battles of Summer: Will the Real Winner Stand Up? - Apple vs. MSFT vs. Google vs. Firefox, MSFT vs. Google, MSFT vs. Apple, IBM vs. Snorkel - Ah Summer when we can kick back, enjoy the sun, and put out thoughts of conflict behind us. Wait a moment, Summer?    more
iPhone vs. Pre: iPhone Won, Palm Lost - Will Edelman Blunders Kill Palm? - I had lunch the other day with one of the top independent folks in PR, a woman by the name of Kimber...    more
Intel Buys Wind River, does Microsoft buy AMD? - Anticipating Tech World War III - When vendors expend out of their core areas they often drop into the space occupied by a partner.    more
The Apple Tablet and the Coming Wave of Smartbooks - Just When You thought it was Safe to Go Shopping - It has been clear for some time that Smartphones and Notebooks were going to give birth to something and while one child has shown up, the other, the Smartbook is just starting to peek out and say "HI".    more
Is the Apple Mac vs. PC Campaign Out of Date and Wrong Headed? - It's Netbooks Not PCs that is their Market Share Problem - I used to get a kick out of the Apple vs. PC spots because they both poked fun at problems the PC had and were funny.    more
Barnes & Noble's Kindle Rival - How to iPod the eBook Market - I've used both the first and second generation Amazon Kindle products but, while improved, the secon...    more
The Near Zero Chance of the Microsoft Phone - Microsoft the Bizarro Apple - Microsoft is in several hardware businesses but they have constantly been reminded that this is not ...    more
Kindle 2 vs. iPod 2 - Can the Kindle Ramp to the iPod's Market Potential? - For many of us the Kindle is as, if not more, a part of our lives than the iPod is. I'm one of those folks and my Kindle goes with me nearly everyplace I go.    more
US Stimulus Package Lacks Strong Foundation and Vision for Future - Saving he Country for Our Grandchildren - I think there are two problems with the current stimulus package. The first is that the first draft was intentionally written to upset the Republicans, kind of as a showcase that the Democrats won, and that corrupted the foundation.    more
Windows Vista SKU's: Big Improvement - Not Perfect but a Huge Step in Right Direction - Vista had a lot of issues. One of the bigger problems was the number of different Stock Keeping Uni...    more
Lenovo Beats Apple in Photography - The Art of Cherry Picking - One of the key areas for Apple, and one they generally dominate, is in media creation and editing. They have been doing so well that in video editing in particular they have been carving huge chunks out of Avid who has historically owned this segment buy providing significantly more bang for the buck.    more
The End of CES: Jobs is Right and Change is Needed - CES Needs to Change or it will Die - I'm not sure why CES or MacWorld comes early in January but I agree with Apple and Steve Jobs doing ...    more
Post Jobs Apple and Post Walt Disney - Anticipating a Sad Change - Much of what many of us are working on this last week of 2008 is what will happen to Apple after Job...    more
Predictions for 2009: Green, Secure, and Mobile - A Vastly Chaged World by 2010 - 2009 is going to be a tough year but there are areas that will receive additional funding and focus ...    more
Microsoft Moves to Zero Cost Anti Virus Service - The Way It Should Have Always Been - In the 80s when viruses first started to raise their ugly little heads Microsoft made an unfortunate...    more
Eliminating Obama’s Blackberry Just Stupid - Thoughts on A Sunday - I’m seeing a lot of reports that the new President will have to abandon his Blackberry because, if required, he might have to make the related correspondence a matter of public record or it could be subpoenaed in a trial.    more
Death by Layoff: How to Learn from Sun's Mistakes - Why Good Companies do Bad Layoffs - Generally I recommend not doing additional business with a company undergoing a layoff because you c...    more
Technology Dreams in the Obama Presidency - The CTO Hope - It is easy to become jaded because so often, with any politician, there is a distinct difference bet...    more
Why Osama Ben Laden wants McCain to win and Dick Cheney wants him to lose - Musings on a Monday - Now before we start let’s be clear like 91% http://blogs.zdnet.com of the tech industry I already voted for Obama and believe he is the right guy for the job.    more
Microsoft Goes to War: Target Google and Apple - Or the “Steve Jobs can Kiss My A..” Versions of Windows - At PDC (Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference) this week Microsoft effectively went to war...    more
How McCain Could Beat Obama - Musings on a Monday - As I write this the lead that Obama has over McCain has widened and the disclosures surrounding Pali...    more
Dell and the Chinese Market - Predicting the Return of the US - I just returned from China where Dell walked a large group of us through Dell’s massive move to shif...    more
T-Mobile Android G1 Dream Phone vs. iPhone vs. Windows Mobile 6.1 - Start with Services Back Into Phone - I’ve been using the G1 phone for the better part of a week and it’s no iPhone. That isn’t to say t...    more
The Power of FUD in the US Election - Sun vs. Microsoft compared to McCain vs. Obama - Currently, according to NBC, the McCain Republican campaign has moved to 100% negative advertising f...    more
AMD Shows US the Way with Asset Smart - Creativity Applied - Part of the problem with massive economic problems is they can lead to political grid lock. Whether...    more
Is Steve Jobs Heart Attack Scare Linked to New HP Phone? - And the iPhone Competitors Keep on Coming - Two events happened today that probably aren’t connected but showcase just how interesting the cell phone market is getting.    more
Bailout is Bad Business - If the US Were A Business First Step Would be Fire the CFO - While I’m far from an expert on Government I am an expert in business process having been an internal auditor and run an acquisition team for a time.    more
Will The Web Make for a Better US Election Or a More Honest Society? - Only if People Learn How to Use It - People are funny,and I don't mean "ha ha" funny. We often tend to think what we are going through is unique when just as often it seems we are repeating the same destructive behavior over and over again.    more
Is the New iPod Nano the Best Apple Product Ever? - How do you define perfection? - Apple does one of the best jobs designing marketing into the front end of products. However, with m...    more
Google G1 Is Tip of the Iceberg - Battle for Global Domination Continues - The G1 is the second of a one two punch from Google to position themselves as the next Microsoft. ...    more
Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin ARE Qualified to be CEOs - Fiorina's Unlearned Lesson - Carly Fiorina recently went on record saying that the current people running for office couldn’t run...    more
EA 0 People 500,000 - The Spore Effect - How to lose $100M - I have little doubt that EA is making good money off the new game Spore http://tech.blorge.com .    more
Microsoft Seinfeld: Building a Campaign - How to Focus an Ad Agency - We are still in the very first teaser phase of the Microsoft Seinfeld campaign and I thought it would be interesting to talk about how I might go about doing something like this.    more
Microsoft Seinfeld Ad Success - The Goal Pundits Don’t Seem to Get - I’m often fascinated about how different perceptions and reality are in our dialog on events. The ...    more
Visual Computing and Networking - What if Cisco and NVIDIA Partnered? - By coincidence attended NVISION and got a briefing by Cisco over a very short period of time and both were inadvertently promoting the other.    more
Obama Nation and Death by Hoax - Praying on our Stupidity - Obama Nation is receiving the literary support it deserves which means that most are rightly trashing http://www.    more
HP Launches Dorm Storm - Risks and Rewards - HP has continually been doing a nice job of marketing their gear. They dominant the printer space w...    more
Dell Does Green - The Cool Little "Green" Desktop - I’m convinced that most vendors are underselling the concept of green, not with regard to materials and recycling, but with regard to energy savings.    more
Microsoft vs. Yahoo! – Now It Gets Ugly - Maybe These Two Should Get a Room... - Carl Icahn is attempting to take over Yahoo and Yahoo’s board and executive team clearly don’t want that to happen.    more
Looking Ahead To the 3rd Generation iPhone - Skipping the 2nd May be a Good Idea - We’ll talk about the troubled 2nd generation product at the end but let’s look ahead to the 3rd gene...    more
Protecting eMail and Saving Your Assets - Is eCipher the Answer to the Question Should be Asking? - Security is a bitch and we are constantly exposed to a variety of threats. Even listing all of them...    more
Why is Voodoo’s Website on Fire? - Are they planning to kick some Apple Butt? - It looks like next week is starting to look like one you’ll not want to miss. Not only is Apple br...    more
HP + EDS - The Advantage of Experience in Merger Execution - Today HP announced the acquisition of EDS and this was in stark contrast to the process Microsoft us...    more
Could HP’s Ex-CEO Carly Fiorina Be The Perfect Republican VP Candidate? - Matching Skills to Opportunity - Carly Fiorina was forced out of HP as the CEO but prior to that not only was she one of the most powerful women in business she was one of the most successful.    more
Microsoft's Secret OS - Could This Forecast Changes to Come? - Microsoft is known for one operating system and it is Windows which comes in a number of flavors. Current products we know about include Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Vista, and Windows Server.    more
The Impact of the Recession on Tech - Think Change - With broad indications that we are probably in a recession it is likely a good time to look at the i...    more
Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo: Strategic Move; Will Google Block? - The Creation of the Super Portal - Microsoft and Yahoo compromise the majority of the portal space and while Microsoft has begun to emb...    more
What I Found At CES - Few Surprises and the Need for a CE Loan - This is the follow up to my previous post and talks about what I actually found other than incredibly long lines for busses and cabs, horrendous traffic, and some of the longest walks I never want to do again.    more
What I Was Looking For At CES - Lots of Toys, Too Little Money - I’m back from CES and figured I’d write my column on what I was looking for at the show and then follow up with what I found.    more
HP MediaSmart Server – Product of the Month - A Consumer Ready Server: How Impossible Was That? - We had a lot of great products over the last month. We started the month with the Dell Inspiron 531...    more
Pink Friday: Best Deals Of the Year - Retailers Making A Difference by Fighting Cancer - This time of year it is traditional to be thankful for what we have and to donate to those less fort...    more
The Dangers of Ignoring Video Game Ratings - Why Parents Need to Become Involved - On Tuesday of this week I flew to San Diego in support of the Institute for Public Strategies which ...    more
Rob Enderle's 2007 Holiday Gift Guide - Shopping Locations and Gift Ideas - Remember that if you are going to buy on-line your time is running out to get the gift in so you can wrap it and send it back out.    more
Product of the Month for October 2007: Mozy On-Line Backup - You sleep better if you know your data is safe. - This month we had four strong products to look at the Olive Opus http://www.olive.us which provides one of the highest quality sound experiences for the home; the stunning new Gateway 30” monitor http://www.    more
Cisco Execs Sent to Jail on Tax Sting - Corruption in Brazil Puts Charge in Question - A large number of Cisco executives and partners in Brazil were suddenly rounded up and sent to jail and the Cisco offices raided in what the Brazilian police allege was a scheme to avoid $824M in taxes http://www.    more
The Quality of Music: Or why the iPod Sucks - The Olive Opus Alternative - For most of us we have gotten used to relatively low quality music as provided by most MP3 players and, if you have compared the new iPod Touch to earlier iPods, and have an ear for music, you’ll notice that, over time, the quality of the music on iPods has declined.    more
Could the Next US President Be Chosen By Google? - Or A Foreign Government? - Given the connection between Google and information and the likelihood that an increasing number of people will be using Google to make candidate choices, in a close race, a little manipulation could go a long way to causing this race to go one way or another even in the primaries.    more
Product of the Month for September - Making the Biggest Difference - Starting this month I’ll be picking my product of the month, this is the roll up of all of the product of the week selections on www.    more
Acer Moves to Acquire Gateway - Move to Block Lenovo - Back in 2004 when Gateway acquired eMachines I suggested the next likely move would be Acer acquirin...    more
Rhapsody America: Key Points - On-Line Music Just Got More Interesting - Real Networks, Verizon, and MTV partner to take Apple and AT&T on http://money.cnn.com...    more
Paramount and Dreamworks Declare Exclusive Support for HD-DVD - Sony’s Media Curse Continues - This is likely going to start moving towards HD-DVD now that studies are showing that the PS3 is not...    more
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray: What if neither side wins? - The Path to “I don’t care” - Last week I bought my first stand alone HD-DVD player. What got me to do it was the special http://amazon.    more
What If You Could Read Harry Potter on Your iPhone? - Deaming of the Harry Potter Signiture iPhone - A few years back when the Pocket PC was first getting started Microsoft convinced me to try reading books on my Compaq iPaq handheld computer.    more
Transformers Must See For Tech and Non Tech - Best Tech Movie of Summer So Far - I sure don't do this often but just came back from the Transformers movie http://www.transformersmov...    more
Getting the iPhone to Work with Exchange - Visto Crafts a Solution - A little piece of news that could turn out to be major is the folks at Visto http://www.visto.com h...    more
How to Explain a $6,000 iPhone to Your Wife - Saving the Marriage - Its summer time and evidently people are looking for ways to get outside and enjoy the great outdoors by standing in line days early to buy a phone that will cost them somewhere between $1,900 and $4,000 over the next 2 years depending on phone, plan, options, accessories, music, media, taxes, insurance, and repair charges.    more
Microsoft’s aQuantive Acquisition - Moving to strategically block Google - If we look at the technology market in phases the first phase was hardware and led by IBM, the secon...    more
Scientology vs. the BBC on YouTube - Don't Mess with Folks who buy Bits by the Barrel - There is a very interesting statement about media going on over on YouTube which likely goes farther to explain the growing value of this medium than it does to anything else.    more
The US Laws Every Blogger Should Know - Covering Your Butt - I just ran into a post http://www.avivadirectory.com that provides a nice summary of th...    more
PCWorld Editor Resigns - Slashdot - The End Of Printed Tech Pubs? - Harry McCracken, the very well regarded Editor-In-Chief for PCWorld resigned a few days ago. This was reported to be the result of a new policy at PCWorld to make product reviews nicer to advertisers.    more
Is the Process of Interviewing Obsolete? - Not now but likely soon… - I don’t often post on subjects that others have vetted but Jeff Jarvis over on BussMachine weighed h...    more
Steve Jobs: Post Dating Options in the News - The Back Story - Over the last several days there has been a series of stories in the Mercury news citing attorneys close to the SEC investigation who state Steve Jobs is not in trouble.    more
Google Buys DoubleClick - Can Microsoft Compete with Google? - Google continues to showcase a surprising amount of foresight in its acquisitions. It has clearly ...    more
HP Redefines Gaming - Through the Looking Glass and Turning the Gaming Market on Its Ear - Last night HP had the first coming out party for Voodoo since the acquisition of that company a few ...    more
Legal DVD Ripping Takes a Step towards Reality - Kaleidescape Wins Critical Legal Battle - You can rip CDs but you can’t legally rip DVDs, or at least that was what we thought before Kaleides...    more
It is Time for an Internet Code of Conduct - Or Something Like the Internet Guardian Angels - There are few things that really piss me off as much as abusive behavior. This week the news http://www.    more
Impact of MP3 Ruling - Changing the world one digital song at a Time - With the recent ruling http://www.twice.com and award connected to MP3 and Mi...    more
Google Premier Apps against Office 2007 - There is a Real Threat Here - When you become as dominant as Microsoft has become you often don’t, because you can’t, address all ...    more
Arguments for and Against the Sirius – XM Radio Merger - Survival Likely Depends on Result - Changing the mind of a political entity once it has taken a position is anything but easy and the FC...    more
Going Green with PlanetTran - How to go for a ride AND help save the Planet - 2007 is already shaping up as one of the biggest years ever for the concept of “green”. Global warm...    more
XM and Sirius Merge - Doing what is needed: What HD-DVD and Blu-Ray should have done - Having two competing satellite radio services was killing this emerging market opportunity. The ser...    more
Voice Exploit Perspective on Vista - After two months this is all they got? - Vista has been in the hands of security researchers for two months and what is reported to http://blogs.    more
The Return of Michael Dell - Dell is back and boy is he Pissed - Typically when a founder comes back, primarily because he has been out of the business for a long ti...    more
Vista Launches: Momma’s got a Brand new set of Clothes - Apple’s going to need to change the “PC Guy” in Ads - Vista has been a long time coming while we’ll likely spend a lot of time comparing this to Apple’s o...    more
CES Preview - The Real Battle May Be Between MacWorld and CES - CES this year is all about getting rid of wires. From TV lines (HP has announced an entire line of ...    more
2007 Trends from Rob Enderle - The Beginning of the End for the Traditional PC - Internet TV: We got a hint with the new Xbox Live Movie service that launched this year but Apple a...    more
HD-DVD Wins - The Back Story - I’ve just recently written a number of columns (see below) pointing to the fact that HD-DVD sales ap...    more
Executive Reshuffle at Sony - Executive Changes Signal Strategy Change - Sony http://biz.yahoo.com has had a surprisingly difficult year as ...    more
Rob Enderle's Holiday Buying Guide 2006 - Tech is In - Rob Enderle’s Holiday Buying Guide In buying a gift sometimes it’s the thought that counts and the typical first step is actually asking the other person (or someone that knows them well) what they want.    more
Zune Comes to Market - Strategy is good, is Hardware and Marketing Good Enough? - Attacking a dominant player, and Apple has nearly 90% of the hard drive portable music player market...    more
Microsoft Becomes Novell SuSe Reseller - Software Switzerland is Born - This year is clearly not going out with a whimper. Contracting to resell annually at least 70K SuSe...    more
The Top Pirate of Silicon Valley: Oracle - Red Hat Wonders Where Business Went - You can almost imagine the conversation between Oracle and Red Hat before the decision to take Red Hat’s revenue stream was made.    more
Risk of Jobs Departure from Apple Increases - Stock Options Problems Escalate - Jobs Health at Core of Decision - Part of the core argument for why, in the face of a lot of CEO departures today, Steve Jobs is unaffected is because he didn’t benefit from a grant he received which was backdated.    more
Rob Enderle's Fall Buying Guide 2006 - This fall you have a lot of technology choices and part of the problem will be some of the really cool stuff won’t be coming until winter.    more
Toshiba Does Battery Recall - Better to be Safe than Really, Really, Really Sorry - Toshiba’s use of Sony batteries was far more limited than either Apple’s or Dell’s but they decided, and rightly, to recall their Sony batteries as well.    more
HP Chair Steps Down - The Repercussions of Pretexting - The difficulty here is that while agents working for HP clearly misacted even the legality, lack of ...    more
HP’s Keyworth Resigns - The Second Shoe Drops - Corporate politics are sometimes fascinating and painful to watch. This latest HP event, which now ...    more
HP Board Goes to Extreme Measures - Many Lessons Learned from Ghost of Fiorina - HP is being investigated by both the SEC and the California Attorney General for leaks from the boar...    more
Vista without HD-DVD Native Support - Vista loses feature it never had in the first place. - Yesterday stories hit the wire indicating HD-DVD support had been dropped from the 32 bit version of...    more
Battery Recall Update - Where is the other third? - With Dell and Apple recalling the natural question is will there be anyone else. Rough estimat...    more
VIA Wants to Send your Daughter to Sweden - They want to send her back a Gamer - Girls generally are thought to be uninterested in gaming which is why it is generally disconcerting ...    more
Dell Moves to AMD: Checking for snow in Hell - Market Change in the Wind - Dell needed to show they were aggressively changing to address their troubling financials. Part of ...    more
Dell Battery Recall - Advice: Replace as quickly as possible - While a relatively tiny number of batteries have failed (around 8 so far out of over 4 million shipm...    more
Microsoft does a Garage Band for Games - XNA Game Studio: The Future of Software - This announcement has several interesting parts. The most interesting is the concept of turning gam...    more
“I Want That!” HGTV Show Adds Tech Toy Version - What to Watch if you Love Gadgets - I’m a big fan of the “I Want That” series and, strangely enough, my wife is as well. This is despite the fact that almost every gadget I buy, and I buy a lot, tends to be a challenge for her (and admittedly sometimes for me) to operate.    more
Predicting Vista Launch - November 15th RTM is key Date - With the latest delay of Vista RTM, or “Release To Manufacturing” was moved too late into the 4th qu...    more
AMD buys ATI, NVIDIA becomes Wild Card, Intel Exposed - Let the Platform Wars Begin - How do you compete with a dominant vendor? This last week we saw the beginning of one idea as Micr...    more
The End of the iPod Wave - Start Thinking about What Comes Next - I’m starting to see a number of anecdotal reports indicating the market lust for the iPod as a product, and perhaps MP3 players as a category, is starting to cool dramatically.    more
Rob Enderle’s Summer Buying Guide - Well it’s summer kids are leaving school and graduating (or have graduated), birthdays are ongoing as are anniversaries and while events like the 4th of July are typically not reasons to buy gifts for others they often are an opportunity to buy things for ourselves.    more
Bill Gates Executes Plan to Step Down - Changed the World, Biggest Impact Yet to Come - Before Bill Gates and Microsoft the world was largely driven by hardware and one company in particul...    more
5 Mistakes When Traveling & Recommended Travel Products - WSJ Radio - I travel a lot, and it comes in waves. Over the last few weeks I’ve been to Monte Carlo, Dubai, Tai...    more
Apple Demonstrates to Creative Labs Why IP Litigation is Dangerous - The Natural Defenses for IP Litigation - The defense that most large technology companies have developed to protect themselves from Intellect...    more
Microsoft One Care - Maybe Primary Windows Security Should Belong To Microsoft - We can certainly understand why a lot of folks would think this to be a bad idea. Microsoft produc...    more
Dell Does AMD - Servers First Can PCs Be Far Behind? - In a move that has been widely anticipated Dell announced that they would use AMD processors in some...    more
Dubai – Technology Center of the Middle East - Can we keep up? - I’m in Dubai this week and it is a fascinating place. Flew there on Emirates (Airlines and if the ...    more
EBay Looks for Partners - EBay Risk Goes Beyond Google - Just as EBay has stolen much of the classified advertising revenue from newspapers, Google is now mo...    more
Getting Ready For Vista - Making a Forward Looking Hardware Choice - While Windows Vista is now slated to be released in the 1st half of 2007 instead of 2006 people like...    more
The Danger of Being Slashdotted - There Really is “Too Much of a Good Thing” - This morning I once again saw an interesting post on Slashdot and found I couldn’t get to the referenced site because the level of traffic had caused it to shut down.    more
Saying Good-Bye to Windows 9x - Slamming the Door on the First Age of PCs - Microsoft is pulling the plug on Window 9x about 5 years after the product had become obsolete. I s...    more
Microsoft Does Port 25 - More Aggressively Embraces Linux Way - I was not a fan of the old Microsoft “Get the Facts” campaign. To me it sounded like too many argum...    more
Apple Does Windows - Could Change PC Landscape as We Know It - One of the big unanswered questions in the market is whether Apple, if they moved to Windows, would ...    more
CTIA 2006 - The Cell Phone Becomes the Universal Device - Cell Phones Become iPods and TVs while Wireless Spreads Globally - CTIA is an amazing show these days because wireless technology has become core to so much of what we...    more
Microsoft Acquires ProClarity - Finding Method in Acquisition Madness - The tech market is going through a broad consolidation for a number of reasons. Market Power and sc...    more
Apple vs. Apple - Why Apple Corps (Beatles) will Prevail - To net out the argument Apple Computer and Apple Corps (the company formed by the Beatles) signed an...    more
Why Dell’s Purchase of AlienWare Makes Sense - PC Companies Using Automobile Strategies - Suddenly cars and Personal Computers have a lot in common. Both now have clearly defined segments ...    more
Netting Out the Microsoft Reorganization - Keep your Eyes on the People - When Microsoft needs to get things done it often turns to people with a history of accomplishing cri...    more
Palm Turns 10 - The Life of the “Other” Apple - I think of Palm as one of Apple’s children, started mostly by ex-Newton folks the Palm Pilot became ...    more
The Game Developer’s Conference - Changing our Reality as We Know It - The Two Battles of GDC Sony vs. Microsoft vs. Nintendo The first has Microsoft in the lead for the next generation of console games primarily because their next generation system is shipping and the others aren’t (no one makes money on games for a system that hasn’t sold yet).    more
Vista Slips Until 2007 - Consumer Market for Consumer PCs Takes Major Hit - Few things could have done more damage to the 2006 PC market then the slip of Windows Vista. This w...    more
Gateway's Turn Around Ends - Revisiting CEO’s Skill Sets and Company Phases - There are typically three phases a company goes through. Startup, Transition, and Sustaining. Unf...    more
Pirate Bay and the Growing Political Problem for the MPAA - How Piracy Could Become Legal - We know that when Industries get too greedy or inept the backlash that results can kill the related ...    more
The Benefits of Certified Email - The True Cost of “Free” - Most of us are taught at an early age that “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. Yet the .com ...    more
RIM Settles with NTP - Better Late then Never? - This has been an example of what not to do in an intellectual property dispute. RIM probably cost ...    more
Lenovo Undoes IBM Mistake - The Return to Retail to build a new Global Chinese PC Power - When Louis Gerstner left IBM he identified his decision to get out of the retail market as one of th...    more
HP Separates Handheld Unit - The Evolution from Smartphone to Communicator Continues - The PDA has been in sharp decline for some time as a result of the rise of the smart phone which, no...    more
RIM Shut Down Likely - When Egos Attack - There is a fundamental assumption that needs to be challenged and that is that NTP won’t shut down RIM because it isn’t in their best interest to do so.    more
Google vs. the US Government - Running Scared or Running Smart? - The US Government has requested Google supply broad information on search terms to help reverse a Su...    more
Fighting the HP, Microsoft Gay Rights Boycott - Promoting Good Corporate Behavior - We live in an era where companies are increasingly taking their employees for granted and painfully ...    more
A Look Into 2006 - Apple, Microsoft, Open Source, Security, and Consumer Electronics - 2006 will bring with it a number of interesting changes. While Apple has always been the “different...    more
Lenovo Gets New CEO - Dell is Target of this Change - Lenovo is quickly becoming one of the companies to watch in the PC space. Now out from under IBM’s ...    more
Looking Ahead to CES - Best Showcase of Convergence in the History of Tech - In general this year’s CES will be the best showcase of technology we have seen, ever, from any show...    more
Visto Sues Microsoft - Is this the swan song for a once promising .COM? - The larger you are the more often you will likely be targeted by intellectual property litigation as the shear number of patents covering software is virtually unmanageable.    more
RIM on the Ropes - Will NTP Own RIM? - Today US District Judge James R. Spencer denied RIM’s motion to enforce an earlier settlement with N...    more
Cisco Acquires Scientific Atlanta - Cisco Swings for the Fences in the Digital Home - In the race for the digital home the set top box has the inside track. This is because it already h...    more
Sony Pirated Code to Make Rootkit - Could this problem get any worse for Sony? - According to Reuters and Saber Security this morning the rootkit that Sony used came from First4Internet who may have illegally copied code from the Open Source program called LAME.    more
Rob Enderle's 2005 Holiday Buying Guide - This Christmas, there are plenty of choices in the market, which makes it difficult to choose because most of us have limited funds.    more
Lenovo Takes Stand on Software Piracy in China - Talks to Value and Benefits as compared to Sony's use of Force - There is a massive problem with software piracy in much of the world and given China’s growth and pr...    more
Microsoft Responds to Sony Rootkit Attack - Update: Sony PR Nightmare Continues - Microsoft has aggressively moved to eliminate Sony’s Rootkit from Windows by adding the signature to their own anti-spyware product Windows Defender and they have promised to make it part of their Malicious Software Removal tool.    more
Sony’s Last Days - 11/11/05 Update: Sony Suspends Rootkit CD Production - Sony hasn’t had a good year and things are about to get much worse. With litigation against the firm proliferating at an impressive pace and the danger of both astronomical penalties and criminal filings increasing it is becoming increasingly likely that we may be seeing the last days of this once great firm.    more
Yahoo does Tivo - Bigger things to come - Tivo is the leader in PVRs, their product should have been as popular as the iPod for its ability to...    more
Microsoft Acquires FolderShare - Microsoft preps for Massive Change - Microsoft continues on a technology acquisition spree as they now begin to fill out their Live offer...    more
Lenovo Reverses IBM Mistake - Going where IBM should have gone before - Today Lenovo reintroduced ThinkPads into the retail environment in the US reversing a mistake that I...    more
Sun Investors Vote for Sale - No Reasonable Offer Refused - In what was one of the most impressive requests for a buyer I have ever seen the Sun investors today...    more
Gateway Financial Results - Revenue Growth Exceeds Dell - Dell is the benchmark for the PC industry but this quarter both HP and Gateway have exceeded Dell’s ...    more
Microsoft Financial Results - Surprising Strength anticipating Vista and Xbox impact - Microsoft continues to show surprising strength the year before the most major operating system rele...    more
High Definition DVD Wars May Be Over Before They Start - HP Weighs In, Apple Expected to Opt Out, Time Warner Switches Sides - Today HP announced they had used their influence to drive the Blue-ray Disc Association (BDA) to ado...    more
Rob Enderle’s Guide to Mobile Devices and Accessories - Tools you'll need on the run - I’m at the Mobile Business Expo this week and think this would be a good time to review some of the ...    more
vPod and new Macs - Rumors from the AMD's Global Vision Conference - Here at the AMD Global Vision Conference we are covering the future of technology as AMD works to ...    more
VIA Launches Laptop Strongbox - The Shape of things to Come - Laptops are displacing desktops computers at an ever increasing rate and theft continues as a proble...    more
Palm + Microsoft - Continuing down the road not traveled by Apple - Today Palm and Microsoft did what Apple has found it virtually impossible to do, create a lasting pa...    more
Sony Reorganizes, Cuts Deep - Process Appears Tactical not Strategic - Sony has well documented disfunctionality issues; in short it is a company at war with itself. To f...    more
.MAC Improvements - The Shape of things to come - For some time now it has been clear that we are on a convergence path between many industries. The ...    more
Microsoft Reorg and Allchin Departure - Fixing Critical Problems and making Vista a Personal Mission - For some time Microsoft has appeared dysfunctional increasingly looking more and more like Sony and ...    more
Windows, Office, and the Microsoft PDC - Ramping to Eclipse Windows 95, Apple and Desktop Linux - Windows Vista: The product is on track for fall launch in 2006. It is the most dramatic change in ...    more
The Death and Rebirth of Palm - Road not traveled for Apple - With the acquisition by Japan’s Access of what was formerly called PalmSource we now see the end of ...    more
Apple Introduces Nano and iTunes for the Phone - A hit and a possible miss - There is no doubt in my mind that the iPod Nano is a hit. Sleek sexy and signaling a move from the ...    more
Intel Files Response to AMD Complaint - AMD's Secret Strategy - A few week’s ago AMD filed a civil complaint against Intel alleging unfair monopolistic practices an...    more
Apple preps for iPod Phone - Creative Labs Awarded MP3 Patent - Today the news leaked, largely due to Apple announcement that Cingular, Motorola, and they were going to make a joint announcement next week that an iPod phone is coming.    more
Acer Re-enters US Desktop Market - Can Lenovo and Toshiba be far behind? - Acer which has been growing aggressively in the US Laptop market has decided to re-enter the deskt...    more
Gateway to Build US Assembly Plant - Success in Government and Business Markets Results in Expansion - Gateway closed US manufacturing last year to reduce costs. However large business and government a...    more
Xbox 360 Prices - Sony Expected to Play Spoiler - We are still on track for a pre-Christmas launch as Microsoft announced a two tiered pricing scheme ...    more
Rob Enderle's 2005 Back to School Buying Guide - Go Mobile - Well its almost that time again and parents everywhere are likely breathing a sigh of relief as their little one becomes someone else’s responsibility for at least a few hours of the day.    more
Gateway Results Solid - Stunning State of New York Win - Gateway continues to report solid financial results with GAAP profit they now are solidly in the bla...    more
Microsoft Patents iPod - No It's not April 1st - Yes, it appears that Apple’s need for secrecy really got them in trouble because, instead of filing ...    more
Google and Today Show Put Iraq Troops at Risk - Do we really need to TRAIN Insurgents on how to do THEIR job better? - On this morning’s Today Show I had a lesson on how to use Google to target US Troops in Iraq, includ...    more
Dell Signals Price Increase - Test of PC Price Elasticity - Dell’s CEO, on an analyst call today, indicated Dell’s sharp decrease in pricing last quarter did no...    more
Lenovo Financial Report - Overcoming the Drag of IBM - One of the problems with a division of a large company is that their actual performance is often concealed by a massive amount of inter-company charges that stand alone firms do not see.    more
Google Objects to Google Search on CEO - Refuses to talk to CNET for a Year - In what must go down as the equivalent of running with scissors, after CNET used Google to showcase the availability of personal information on the Web Google, in a huff, is punishing CNET by refusing to talk to them for a year.    more
ITC Judge Issues Split Decision in HP vs. Gateway Case - Out of 7 complaints 2 stick on obsolete technology, now it’s Gateway’s turn. - On the list of running with scissors behavior has to be one PC vendor going after another for IP. ...    more
Digital Cameras for the Semi-Pros - Digimax Pro815 vs. FinPix S9000 - A few weeks ago, we picked out cameras that most people would find more then adequate for their need...    more
Microsoft Gets New COO - Kevin Turner Next in line for CEO - Kevin Turner, and old personal friend of Steve Ballmer, joins Microsoft in what appears to be a CEO ...    more
RIM (BlackBerry) Loses Appeal - RIM's Future Questioned - While 4 of the 16 claims were remanded back to the U.S. District court 11 were affirmed clearly plac...    more
Apple Discovers Multiple Buttons on a Mouse - And Moves into the 90s - In what must be the most amazing event for the “most innovative company in the world”, Apple invents the multi-button mouse with a scroll ball.    more
Microsoft Names Windows "Vista" - A Look at the Rejected Names - Tied to the core benefit of search which is substantially improved in the product, and positioned ag...    more
Sun’s Free Software Strategy - If you can’t sell it, Give it Away! - I’m clearly getting too old; so many things are starting to look like bad reruns in the tech segment...    more
HP Shifts Gears To Get Out of Own Way - Test will be organizational Synergy - Part of the problem with any complex company is the creation of bureaucracy and inefficiency in the ...    more
They’re Baaack: Transmeta Off Life Support - The Advantages of Positive Cash Flow - Transmeta today announced revised guidance and, at time when we often expect guidance to be revised ...    more
Disney Enters Cell Market - Lower Prices, Improved Customer Service to Result - This move by Disney showcases how successful private branding of cell phone services is becoming. ...    more
Gateway, HP and IBM (Lenovo) Win State of California - New Companies get the Big Test - Gateway and Lenovo have both been on the come back trail of late with win after win in a variety of ...    more
Hollywood and Supreme Court Redefines BetaMax - Not a Ruling against Legal File Swapping - For Grokster and Streamcast the court focused on activities that specifically seemed to enable and encourage illegal use coupled with the lack of any effort to limit illegal use.    more
AMD Goes to War against Intel - Based on Japan and Europe Response Intel at Risk - This was a long time in coming. For some time now OEMs had been expressing a frustration with their...    more
MGM V. Grokster - It’s not about Peer to Peer: It’s about Control - Earlier this week I had, as the guest of Mercora, a company that provides a “legal” music sharing se...    more
Let's Free PBS - Why US Funding is a Bad Thing - When PBS was formed Cable, the US was a different place and Cable didn't exist. I’ve watched PBS s...    more
LA Times Pulls “Wikitorial” - Monitoring Needed, Experiment Was a Success - When ever you are trying to deal with people you need to anticipate those that behave badly. The ca...    more
Review of Targus iPod and iPod Mini Accessory Line - Cool Toys for your iPod - I had a chance to meet with Targus this month and received an overview of their new accessory line f...    more
Insecurity in America - The Negligent Lack of Protection for Personal Financial Information - In watching yet another security breach where information from thousands of users has been comprom...    more
T-Mobile: Roaming and Hotspot Expansion - Understanding What Business They Are In - The common example of a firm that didn’t understand what business it was in was Wells Fargo vs. The ...    more
Lighting a Fire under Legacy News Services - Will Blogs be the Death of the Wall Street Journal? - Or the Mercury News, or CNN, or Fox News? The real answer is “probably not” but they are taking the...    more
Deconstructing Apple - Are Intel and Apple Merging? - Last week Robert X. Cringely, who has been covering the technology segment longer then most of us, published a column suggesting that Apple and Intel are in the process of merging.    more
The Death of the PowerPC - Another Example of Leadership Weakness at IBM - Apple was the poster child of IBM Microelectronics, the one company which had taken their technology and put it into mass-market devices.    more
Apple Moves to Intel - Risks and Opportunities - Admitting that there were two versions of the MacOS, and have been since the beginning of the NeXT b...    more
IBM Fights Apple Move to Intel - Behind the Scenes Efforts to Reverse Decision - As this story was emerging last week it became clear that someone was moving behind the scenes to ge...    more
Microsoft “Raw” File Support - Big Problem Potentially Solved - Microsoft announced today that they will be supporting a Raw file standard in Longhorn and Windows X...    more
Lenovo Produces First Tablet Computer - Post Merger Activity Showcases a New, more aggressive, company - Fully leveraging the ThinkPad design elements the new ThinkPad X41 convertible tablet is arguably th...    more
The New Gateway - Best Buy Awards Gateway Vendor of the Year - Best Buy is arguably the most well structured retail purveyor of technology goods to consumers. The...    more
Dads and Grads Gift Guide - Putting a Smile on the Face of the Special Someone - This is the time of year we search to find a gift for Father’s Day (June 19) and Graduation Day (depends on school).    more
Shooting Real Animals on the Internet - Defining a really Bad idea - Part of what makes violent video games acceptable is that you are operating in a virtual world and m...    more
Apple Rumored to Move to Intel - The reasons are becoming more powerful - Several years ago we highlighted that Apple and Intel appeared to be growing closer and that Intel’s...    more
Game System Wars - Calling the Winner - The battle will be at the 4th quarter, Sony will showcase video clips of what is coming in the ho...    more
Linux Self Destructs - Is Microsoft Truly Blessed? - Last week Maureen O’Gara wrote an expose of Pamela Jones the founder of Groklaw a site whose primary mission appears to be to put SCO out of existence before they can actually get into court (something that often seems well within SCO’s capability to do all by itself).    more
Sony vs. Microsoft vs. Nintendo - Price vs. Size vs. Performance - Microsoft’s offering is the most expensive and the most complete, but it isn’t necessarily the most ...    more
Microsoft and Sun target IBM - The Surreal World of Steve and Scott's Relationship - While I originally felt the alliance between Microsoft and Sun had more to do with Sun’s need for mo...    more
Pre- E3 – Sony vs. Microsoft - Will Sony Throw the Fight? - At E3 we are about to see what, to console gaming, is the battle of the decade. I find it amazing b...    more
Broadcast Flag Dead – Long Live HD TV - Consumers Win One - Today an appellate court invalidated FCC rules requiring a broadcast flag indicating the FCC had no ...    more
Microsoft and Gay Rights - Standing Up even when it isn’t in your best interest - Large public companies seldom take public stands on divisive issues particularly those that can infl...    more
Does Apple Have a Death Wish? - Protecting Your Freedom - Apple is increasingly attacking the rights of its fans and customers maybe it is time we put our foot down and said “enough”.    more
Rob Enderle's Spring Buyer's Guide to MP3 Players - Don't Overspend - MP3 players have been around since the late 90s but it wasn’t until the iPod was launched that they ...    more
Lenovo + the IBM PC Division - The Grand Experiment - I’ve had the opportunity to do a great deal of Merger and Acquisition work over the last several dec...    more
Rob Enderle’s Spring Buyer’s Guide to Laptop PCs - A few days ago we covered desktop computers but, given current trends, well over half of you will be...    more
IBM and Sanyo: Fuel Cell's for Notebooks first, Lower Oil Dependency Second - Fuel Cells for Notebook Computers 2 Years Off - Today IBM and Sanyo showcased a working prototype notebook fuel cell with significant advantages o...    more
Gateway Settles with Microsoft for $150M - Will Expand Faster - Gateway isn’t back, eMachines Never Left in the First Place - This morning we had another reminder that the old Gateway is dead, replaced by a dramatically more vital eMachines led company that is executing at a level that is giving Dell palpitations.    more
Rob Enderle’s Spring Buyer’s Guide to Desktop PCs - Buying Smart - It is spring, the weather is improving, the birds are singing, love is in the air, and young minds t...    more
HP’s Ex-CEO Hired to Drive Microsoft’s Linux/Mac Targeted Project “Backfire” - At 25:00 hours on March 31st Microsoft again changes how the game is played - A Backfire can mean many things but in this instance it refers to the fire fighting process of light...    more
Details of failed Microsoft/Oracle Merger Released - Miracle Company was Not to Be - Today Microsoft and Oracle jointly leaked the details of their failed merger talks, talks that, had ...    more
Transmeta Reborn - Transmeta Undergoes Life Saving Changes - Today Transmeta announced the expected change in their operations. Highlights include a number of t...    more
HP’s New CEO: Mark Hurd - Why a relative Unknown is Good - The selection of Mark Hurd is consistent with a stay the course strategy from HP and one that sugges...    more
Sony’s PSP - All the signs of the Next Big Fad - Sony is launching their portable video game player this week and the Million units initially slated ...    more
HP Buys Snapfish - Kodak Gets Nightmare - HP has suddenly become a power in the photo business. Strongly believing that their ink jet process...    more
Microsoft Acquires Groove - Ray Ozzie on Succession Line for Microsoft - Ray Ozzie is the father of Lotus Notes which now belongs to IBM and represents their largest competi...    more
IBM PC Company Sale Approved - Now the Fun Begins - IBM is a relatively rigid and siloed company. After separation from the corporation both the printe...    more
Media and Technology - What do High Tech and Traditional Media have in Common - I’ve been spending the last two days with representatives from large media and leaders in the new media market at an event put on by the American Press Institute’s Media Center.    more
Kloss vs. Media Center Project vs. Tivo - Exploring the Converged Consumer Electronics Product Landscape - I started a project several months ago to build my own Media Center PC, I had a new 915 board and 3....    more
AMD and VIA - Is this the Dream Team to Challenge Intel? - Last night, on the 24th of February 2005, AMD and VIA got together to celebrate crossing the line wi...    more
The Death of a CEO - How the Lack of a Critical People Skill Contributed to Carly Fiorina's Failure - I’ve followed Carly Fiorina closely from the time she initially took the job to her recent departure...    more
Changing at the Guard at HP: Fiorina Steps Down - The Board as a Management Force is Back - The rumored rift between HP’s board and CEO was evidently true and the end result of this rift is th...    more
Napster is Back - The Power of Subscription Music: Anticipating the end of the iPod/iTunes Fad - Last week the first of a series of music services launched using a new technology from Microsoft called Janus.    more
TV Technology Superbowl 2005 - More Choices, Less Wallet - This is the week when we have the huge TV sales, when we are asked to fork over our hard earned cash to get a big TV, and this is also our first opportunity to prove my 5 geeky things we will do this year prediction right.    more
Windows XP Media Reduced Edition - Maybe there should be Darwin Awards for Government Officials - The European Commission’s anti trust authority ordered Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without the Microsoft Media Player in it even though there was no indication that users or hardware resellers would ever be interested in such a version.    more
The 5 Geeky things we will do in 2005 - How technology is chainging our world - 2005 will be a year of technology transition and much of this technology has come in so gradually that probably haven’t stopped to think about the fact that, kind of like a “B” zombie flick, we are all slowly being turned into Geeks.    more
HP Combines PC and Printing and Imaging Groups - Consolidation at a Different Level - The PC market continues to consolidate, in this most recent instance HP is combining two groups insi...    more
The Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle - Recalling the IBM PC Jr. (Peanut) - Back in the 80s IBM had a problem, they owned the business PC space but Apple clearly had the intere...    more
The $500 Headless Apple Computer - Speculating one what it should, and should not, be - Recent speculation has Apple releasing a $500 computer without a monitor into the market. While thi...    more
Gartner to Buy Meta - Consolidation to the Next Level - Today the Gartner Group announced they would acquire The Meta Group. The Meta Group has been on the...    more
Setting up Your Tech Toys - Avoiding the Dreaded OOOPS! - You’ve received a new Plasma TV, a new Media Center PC, or some other high tech gadget and it is now time to set this puppy up and you are thinking about doing the typical guy thing and tossing way the manual to go man to man with the this new toy.    more
CES 2005 - Looking ahead to CES - CES is about new technology we can’t yet buy and there is always a great deal of this at the show. ...    more
Microsoft EU Ruling - Little Tactical Impact, Tough Strategic Implications - The ruling to unbundled the Windows Media Player from Windows and to improve server interoperability...    more
Microsoft Acquires Giant Company Software Inc. - The Death of Spyware - Spyware has been tagged by companies like Dell as one of the things rapidly driving up support costs...    more
Oracle buys PeopleSoft - Outcomes and Opportunities - Oracle and PeopleSoft confirmed today that the merger was going to proceed. The goal is to take out...    more
IBM to Sell to Lenovo - Deal Huge Boon to HP, Dell, and Gateway – Creates a New IBM and a New Lenovo - IBM was the most trusted vendor in the high technology segment, this sale of the PC Division to a Ch...    more
Rob Enderle's 2005 Predictions - 4th Quarter 2004 - 2005 is expected to be a year of change. It will see the Longhorn Beta, with Longhorn being the mos...    more
IBM PC Unit unlikely to be sold to Lenovo - New York Times Story reduces probability of Sale - New York Times reported today that IBM was in negations with Lenovo and one unnamed other for the sale of their PC business.    more
Gartner: PC Market Consolidation - A Strong Prediction for 2002 not 2005 - Gartner has released a report indicating that three major PC vendors will exit the market shortly. ...    more
The Future of Media Center - Observations from the Phoenix Strategy Conference 2005 - Every year there is a conference held on the coast of California to discuss the near term future of ...    more
Microsoft’s Destruction of E-Mail - The Reasons Behind Retention Policies - One of the problems in taking a company to court on intellectual property issues is proving the actu...    more
Microsoft/Novell and Perfect Office - Litigation for the Heck of it - On top of settling with Microsoft on the broad claims surrounding Netware this month Novell filed ag...    more
Microsoft Settlement with CCIA and Novell - Another Indication of Change - All companies change over time, but often at different rates. The firms we’ve come to love or hate ...    more
Microsoft vs. Apple - How the Battle Plays Out in the Digital Home - Apple was first with the concept of a digital hub but they have actually done relatively little to e...    more
The Changing PC Battle in 2005 - The story here should likely be that IBM and Gateway are back and boy are they pissed. In general ...    more
Personal Electronics Security - The Critical Missing Link - As we move to more and more complex devices it is increasingly obvious that even though security is ...    more
Missed Opportunities in Personal Technology - 2004 - 2004 has been a year of new products from Apple’s mini-iPod, to Gateway’s competitor which beat Apple to market with a mini and a color screen, to the third generation Media Center PC and all of its accessories, to the launch of portable gaming systems from Sony and Nintendo.    more

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