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"Given that discounts were less aggressive this year due to the shortages, I didn't see as much interest in waiting for Black Friday or Cyber Monday," observed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "The events s...

Thanksgiving has passed, and I'm sure we all had wonderful conversations with our relatives on safe topics like politics and religion and are feeling pretty good about not seeing some of those folks for at least another year. But, good news, our list of folks to buy gifts for likely got significantly shorter! ...

Qualcomm's investor day was last week and its CEO Cristiano Amon made a comment I disagree with, though the outcome to Qualcomm is the same or better. Amon said everything is going mobile, but I don't think that is correct ...

Nvidia's big GTC conference took place last week. This event has become more and more interesting over the years, with less and less emphasis on Nvidia's GPU business -- which makes me wonder if it is time to change the name ...

The news services have been warning of supply chain shortage, added Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "It looks like people are taking those warnings seriously and buying early," he told the E-Commerce Tim...

Microsoft, on Oct. 29, once again surpassed Apple to take the top spot as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world ...

These tools give us a limited view of the metaverse, noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "This begins to give us an early sense of a small part of what the metaverse will be able to do," he told TechNe...

Qualcomm doesn't like Apple very much, which is understandable given how Apple tried to put it out of business. Though another reason Qualcomm doesn't like Apple is that in Apple's vertically integrated world, Qualcomm is redundant ...

More people buying into electric vehicle innovations is often short-circuited by infrastructure concerns. The lack of charging infrastructure, limited range, and people not yet being comfortable with electric cars are the main touchpoints, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group...

We are often faced with similar choices at first glance that later turn out to be very different ...

BlackBerry held its annual security conference last week. The messaging was split between Blackberry's impressive updates to its ever-expanding security services -- which are among the few using AI in security solutions -- and its automotive efforts ...

Windows 11 launched last week, and since my career as an external analyst started at the same time Windows 95 did, I feel deeply connected to this platform ...

Qualcomm had a smart city event last week where they talked about the operational and financial advantages that those living or working in a smart city would enjoy ...

Microsoft last week launched its new Surface line, and elements of it better target Apple's weaknesses than any prior effort ...

Trust in sources that we depend on for business and personal decisions is critical. A platform that aggregates opinion and news should be held to the highest standard of trust and honesty. This need for trustworthiness is because, if it acts against its users, an aggregation service like Facebook can cause damage at a national or even planetary level by instigating people to act against their self-interest...

It is interesting that computer terminals were introduced in the 1970s and were largely obsolete by the end of the 80s, making their service life relatively short when compared to PCs which were introduced in the late 70s and remain our primary business computing tool for more than 40 years ...

I was out to dinner last week, and at the table was a young lady with an education degree. She was expressing frustration that her younger siblings are far more prosperous than she is ...

Whenever a war like Afghanistan ends, a financial problem drives a country into the next war. The companies that build the weapons take a massive revenue hit because a country at peace doesn't consume many ordinances ...

Facebook is misclassified as a social media company. If it weren't, bringing out a VR product like Horizon Workrooms, reviews of which have not been kind, would have been better received ...

The NHTSA investigation could lead to Tesla paying fines and being forced to stop marketing Autopilot as autonomous driving technology, maintained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "Tesla seems to be marketing...