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Rob Enderle

December 2007

December 28, 2007

Falling for the Dan Lyons Apple Hoax: Implications and Portents

I spend a lot of time, and I have to admit take a little pleasure in, pointing out hoaxes to others. So it is incredibly ironic and quite humbling to fall for a hoax myself.   In my previous pos... More >

December 26, 2007

Is Apple Rotting from the Inside Out?

I started this week thinking about Apple killing off Think Secret and actually threatening the income and family -- during the Christmas season, mind you -- of the highly visible Forbes reporter... More >

December 24, 2007

A Lot of Apple at the Core of 2007's Best Products

We had a wild and crazy year in 2007 and there were many amazing products, ranging from phones to Web sites to in-car technologies -- and some really cool PCs, too.   Apple was a major part of t... More >

December 20, 2007

Swatting and Anticipating New Security Risks in 2008

Technology brings with it new rewards and new risks as this technology is misused.   The most recent "prank" using older technology is called " swatting " and it is incredibly dangerous. So much... More >

December 17, 2007

Watching the Analyst: The Rebirth of SageCircle

This month marks the return of SageCircle, a firm that died as the result of an ill-advised move to use venture-capital money to expand. But there is life after death in the business world and SageC... More >

December 13, 2007

OOXML vs. ODF, the Weird Politics of FOSS, and Apple and the True Benefit of Proprietary Software

I started today reading through a Slashdot post on how Richard Stallman was praising KDE and KOffice and suggesting GNOME was a Microsoft shill for supporting OOXML. This seemed to drive a massive ... More >

December 11, 2007

Apple's Leopard/Leoptard Problem: It's Time to Rethink the OS

The folks at Microsoft think Apple has it easy because Apple can limit the amount of hardware it supports and can contain the development process until the last minute so no one knows what is cut. &n... More >

December 5, 2007

Dreaming of the Perfect Laptop

As we get to the end of the year, I tend to dream about what is coming and I have, under NDA, been shown a lot of products that are coming next year. Not one of them fits my ideal product and there a... More >

December 4, 2007

EMC and Giving a Carrot for Good CEO Compensation Practices

So often when those of us that have done time in human resources and accounting look at CEO compensation, we talk about how out of control it is and focus on the firms that are overpaying their t... More >