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"You have a couple of industry powerhouses trying to rattle Adobe," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times. "Apple's trying to protect its walled garden approach; it wants to control everything in its world," he said Microsoft, on the o...

Cloud printing services are an extension of the move to have everything from consumer electronics devices to white goods such as refrigerators connected to the Internet, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, pointed out. "It's good that companies are finally pushing the envelope rather than waiting for consumers to request this capability," he told TechNewsWorld...

Perhaps HP is being too optimistic about the timeframe. "Like any other memory architecture or memory solution, it takes high volumes and large amounts of investment before it makes sense to go to manufacturing," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, pointed out. "Any time somebody says something is feasible in the next X number of years, you can probably double or triple that figure."

The HTC EVO runs on both Sprint's 3G network and its 4G WiMax network. However, future handsets for advanced networks will likely need to be able to support mutliple flavors of 4G, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Handsets for both Wi...

The latest processors have a high degree of power management through very refined clock gating, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. This lets the processor shut down the parts that are not required in a transaction or a process, he explained.

Open source is all rather loosey-goosey to Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat. "True open source is a real headache," he told LinuxInsider. "It has resulted in little market momentum and more fragmentation than anything else." Open source needs a third party ...

"Lenovo's trying to break out of the image it inherited when it took over the product from IBM," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "They've had what I call the 'Volvo image' -- the products are reliable, safe, and look like bricks. Now with the colors and the X100e, they're going after a much broader market." ...

"I'm sure Google has taken the revenue potential into account," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. The real-time search capability could impact ad revenues at professional news sites, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, ...

"I can't attribute Larrabee's delay to one thing," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Intel was trying to develop a new hardware technology with a new software programming model, which is a very complex task." Few new technologies make ...

Most likely, the operating system is waiting for ARM-based hardware to come out, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist with In-Stat, told LinuxInsider Currently, "all the solutions are x86-based, for the most part," McGregor explained. "There are OEMs that have announced n...

"I can understand the frustration of News Corp. They say Google and others are stealing their content, especially if people aren't going to their sites so they can make some ad revenue," said In-Stat chief technology strategist Jim McGregor. "But it's probably a better idea to add more value to bring them to your site than try to block the searches."

Google's taking a big gamble with this approach, but if it wins, it will win big. "When you control both the hardware and software, you have to ask yourself how you will define a PC five years from now and what it will do," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, pointed out.

Market share figures from more established Web survey companies like ComScore and Nielsen continue to show Bing with higher market share numbers, according to Jim McGregor, senor technology strategiest for In-Stat. Still, "I would at least let it go through the fourth quarter" and the holiday shopping season before analyzing Bing's staying power, McGregor told TechNewsWorld. "The fourth quarter is obviously important for e-commerce, especially for consumers. You typically want to see one or two quarters (of activity), but the most important ones come in the last half of the year. That's when you're going to see consumer trends, as we get through the fourth quarter. That's going to be a better judge of how well Bing is doing."

"The announcement is critical to maintaining an open standard, and I'm sure that Microsoft is also doing it to appease government regulators," said Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist for In-Stat "Please, note, however, that Microsoft placed some very specific restrictio...

A plethora of devices that connect to the Web are under development, according to Jim McGregor, chieftechnology strategist for In-Stat. Although he has not seen the Delldevice, he has heard that one was under development "The Dell device is more like the [iPod touch], and ther...

Wind River's development of its specialized hypervisor is more about keeping up with rivals than for gaining a solid advantage over them, according to Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist for research firm In-Stat "It's almost like they have to have it. It is almost a req...

Distributing free energy software may be little more than aself-serving gesture by Google, Jim McGregor, chief technologystrategist for In-Stat, suggested. It remains to be seen whether there isany connection between educating consumers and convincing them to actually consume lower levels of power...

Rather than go out and design a completely new quad-core chip, Shanghai is really an upgraded version of Barcelona with some enhancements in virtualization and increased speeds. Those are the results of moving to a 45-nm layout and re-architecting parts of the cores, explained Jim McGregor, another InStat analyst...

"Most of the industry has been heading toward foundry models for the past 15 years. Just in the past few years, [Texas Instruments], [STMicroelectronics], Infineon, IBM and many others have gone to a fabless or fab-light model," Jim McGregor, an analyst at InStat, told the E-Commerce Times...

However, the biggest problem with fuel cells is that they have to be renewed, argued Jim McGregor, an In-Stat analyst "With fuel cells, you're using something to create energy. Whatever you use -- whether it be sugar, whether it be hydrogen or whether it be whatever -- you hav...