Rob Enderle

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is typically all about smartphones and tablets; it was effectively the home of the anti-PC and laid the foundation for the belief that the PC was dead. Well, that foundation has been falling apart of late, with every one of the major PC manufacturers showing sales growth. And at MWC this […]

After reading the report, “A Widening Attack Plain,” by Brian David Johnson for the U.S. Army Cyber Institute, which looks at the world as it will exist in 2026 with regard to cyber threats, I’ve concluded that we have little to worry about because, if this report is correct, many of us won’t make it […]

Yesterday, HP Inc. released financial results toward the high end of guidance. That doesn’t seem like much, but the industry perception was that Meg Whitman had basically thrown Dion Weisler, HP Inc’s CEO, under the bus with what was a no-win scenario of massive debt, declining revenues and dying markets. But apparently, no one told […]

This week, AMD launched its Ryzen processor, one of what is likely to be a line of new desktop and, eventually, laptop parts. Ryzen is an impressive offering, focused mostly initially on home creators and consumers, with corporate offerings like workstations and servers due later. So rather than focus on the part, let’s focus on […]

I was recently briefed on yet another painful breach; an employee, thinking they were responding to a request from the CEO, provided confidential information on employees to an attacker who apparently intended to use it to steal their identities. A new report from ProofPoint has concluded that the use of CEOs is declining for this […]

I’ve been in, around, or covering security products ranging from physical tools to cyber security tools for much of my life, and one thing remains constant. We really don’t rethink our approaches very often. We also tend to keep doing really stupid things even when we know they aren’t working and might be making things […]

Apple has been sued for allegedly breaking FaceTime on iOS 6 and iPhones running earlier versions of iOS in order to cut costs and force upgrades. If this turns out to be true, it will be far from the first time I’ve seen this strategy implemented. And it always has turned out badly. Let’s talk […]

AMD is coming out with its new Naples processor for servers. After being knocked out of the market due to missed commitments, getting back in would typically be ugly. Server buyers tend to be very conservative and would be slow to move to a new processor anyway. AMD is taking a very interesting path to […]

Watching our new U.S. president in his first weeks reminds me of why a lot of turnarounds fail, particularly when executed by someone from the outside. They can fail for a lot of things, but in this instance, I think you can see the combination of a bad skill match, false assumptions about how things […]

One of the things that has been very clear to me over the last decade is that too many CEOs see layoffs as a tool they can aggressively use to meet quarterly numbers and/or spike their stock. They have no real concept that eliminating large numbers of qualified employees is like letting a two-year-old with […]

As I mentioned earlier, I was at the BlackBerry forum earlier this week and outside of the fascinating chat I had with John Chen, the BlackBerry CEO, there were three offerings the firm showcased that I think could have a far bigger impact. The offerings included a HIPAA-compliant medical social network focused on patients and […]

Right now, BlackBerry CEO John Chen is not only ahead of Steve Jobs in terms of turnaround speed, he has done something that both HP and Sun failed at: turned a hardware company into a software and services company, arguably something Jobs couldn’t have done. I had a chance to ask him about that this […]