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Apple's strategy, which has worked well financially up until now, is called "vendor lock-in." ...

GTC21, this year's Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, was terrific as always ...

In the beginning, social media promised to connect us to existing friends, help us form new relationships, and as a result help make us find happier lives. Facebook, initially, was just a way for new students to meet new friends, Quora was a way to get crowdsourced answers, and Twitter sort of a way to alert friends about things they might find interesting. ...

As is often the case when technology is advancing very rapidly, the leading providers of an evolving class of products are on very different pages. I'm talking about Cisco and Microsoft -- and while neither's approach is wrong, neither is complete -- and together they can build a comprehensive picture of what is needed for our hybrid workplace future...

For nearly two decades I've firmly believed that Pat Gelsinger should be the guy uniquely suited to run Intel. Last week he did Intel proud with the most effective, for the time, corporate pep talk I've yet seen ...

Nvidia is in the process of working through regulatory approvals to buy Arm from SoftBank -- a technology holding company with mixed success husbanding its acquisitions ...

We have a massive problem with electronic waste. Globally, we throw out 50 million tons of it every year, which is the equivalent of 1,000 laptops every second ...

Last week was particularly interesting for me as it had Microsoft's Ignite event -- and separately, a handful of us analysts got to see Huawei's operating system strategy ...

We are in the midst of what many are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. This is a time of disruption, massive change, opportunities, and significant risks. Fortunes will shift, companies will fail, and new companies will rise from the ashes ...

"We didn't have tracking before the Internet and did just fine without it," Rob Enderle, principal at analyst firm The Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "We can far more easily survey people now, which might end up with a better metric anyway, like their propensity to buy."

Last week I was on a panel discussing how 3D-printed home building could help emerging countries more rapidly deal with homeless issues, reduce the discrepancies between the poor and rich, and create a more sustainable future ...

As I write this, a growing number of companies have either announced plans to move out of California to a more "friendly" state or have already done so ...

Jeff Bezos last week announced he will be stepping down from his role of CEO Amazon. Bezos is following Microsoft's lead and putting his cloud executive Andy Jassy in charge of the company. Given that Microsoft was exceedingly successful with putting Satya Nadella in the same role, it would seem that this would be a slam-dunk success. ...

With Bezos stepping out of daily operations, the executive team will have to figure out where they want to expand, according to Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. They are already exploring more vertical integration focused on buyer delivery and using drones "Product lines like...

Qualcomm last week announced several products that will be used to enhance next-generation automobiles. These future cars will most certainly be electric and increasingly autonomous ...

Huawei has events where it pulls together key analysts to focus on problems it thinks are critical to the future. At its last event, Huawei spoke about two areas that need considerable work. ...

"People are living on their mobile devices a lot more than they used to. Having that kind of power in mobile is handy," observed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "The desktop segment is locked up," he tol...

With the attack in Washington, D.C. happening right before CES, I was worried that I wouldn't focus on the show and, I expect, that distraction and the coming inauguration did split attention. However, one of the nice things about working from home is being able to watch TV while you are working. For many of us, the TV has become much more of a companion during the pandemic. ...

"The high tech vendors whose businesses are thriving are those that have doubled down on their R&D spending like Amazon, Alphabet, Huawei, IBM, Invidia, Microsoft and Samsung, to name a few," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group in Bend, Oregon Thriving vs....

Like a lot of folks, I'm torn about CES this year. It is a show I've attended for decades and hated for nearly as long. One year I ripped the soles off of both my feet from walking so much on concrete, and, trust me, that made for a memorable trip ...