Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm. Recognized as one of the best general Inquiry Analysts in the world, Rob specializes in providing rapid perspectives and suggested tactics and strategies to a large number of clients dealing with rapidly changing global events. Rob lives emerging technology and has a passion for personal technology and market strategy. Rob trained as a news anchor and co-hosted CNET radio during the 90s, has been widely used by both local and national news TV and radio programs, and has been identified as one of the worlds' most influential technology analysts. Currently Rob co-hosts the Fast Forward segment for Tech Close Up a nationally syndicated weekly Technology TV show, appears semi-weekly for a tech segment on WSJ radio, and does a daily group Podcast for Digital Trends. In addition Rob writes for ECT (TechNewsWorld, eCommerce Times, Linux World, MacNewsWorld), Dark Reading, Digital Trends, TGDaily, ITBusiness Edge and Datamation.Before founding the Enderle Group in 2003 Rob was the Senior Research Fellow for Forrester Research and the Giga Information Group. While there he ran the eCommerce, Security, and Mobile research practices.Before Giga, Rob was with Dataquest covering client/server software where he became one of the most widely publicized technology analysts in the world. Before Dataquest Rob worked for IBM and ROLM and was in IBM’s executive resource program. As part of that program he managed projects and people in Finance, Internal Audit, IT, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, Security, and Planning groups. Prior to IBM he was a Marketing Director and sat on the board of the Southern California Marketing Director’s Association.Rob holds an AA in Merchandising, a BS in Business, and an MBA.Rob sits on the advisory councils for Lenovo, Toshiba, AMD, HP, Dell, the Trusted Computing Group, and the Lifeboat Foundation.Rob’s hobbies include Sporting Clays, PC Modding, Science Fiction, Home Automation, and Computer Gaming.
How Nvidia’s Kepler chips could end PCs and tablets as we know them
Last week, Nvidia launched the first graphics processing unit (GPU) designed for the cloud, dubbed Kepler. Supporting vendors include a who’s who of server providers, such as HP, Dell, Cisco,… →
Opinion: How to earn a Ferrari and help launch a new search company
Every once in a while I run into something really interesting. Such was the case last week when I met with Rich Jenkins, Vice President of Business Development at Serge,… →
Opinion: Did tablets and smartphones kill Nintendo?
Nintendo is having a bad year. Revenues are off sharply, and profits are a distant memory. Earlier this month, one of the companies bringing forth a new title cancelled the… →
Opinion: Not ready for an electric car? Get an electric scooter
Last week I was at Dell’s Annual Analyst Conference, but the product at the event I most wanted wasn’t a desktop, laptop, a tablet or even a smartphone. It was… →
Opinion: JetSuite make private planes more practical
CEOs and really rich people tend to have their own private jets, a luxury denied to the rest of us because the damn things cost millions to buy and millions… →
Opinion: Performance benchmarks are worthless, here’s how to make them better
AMD is getting ready to launch its next-generation architecture (code named Trinity) and invited a bunch of us out to Austin to see it. I can’t talk about the technology… →
Opinion: Windows Phone has a championship contender: Nokia’s Lumia 900
One of Apple’s biggest advantages is also its biggest shortcoming: it doesn’t have much variety in its product lines. The first iPod came in any color you wanted as long… →
Opinion: Why does everyone pick on Apple products?
“Why does everyone pick on Apple products?” This was an implied question I got from @Scionwest on Twitter recently. In light of last week’s column on the new iPad overheating, I… →
Opinion: Unsafe at any speed: Is the new iPad Apple’s Corvair?
The Corvair was General Motors’ answer to new competition from Volkswagen and Porsche back in the day, which was building air-cooled, rear-engine cars with independent rear suspensions. It wasn’t as… →
Opinion: Imagining Nokia’s iPad-destroying Windows 8 tablet
Nokia is building a Windows 8 tablet. While plenty of other companies will likely follow suit, the Finnish company’s position is unique. In smartphones, Nokia is the only vendor that… →
Opinion: Did Apple overpromise on the new iPad?
The “new iPad” launched this week, bringing a significant improvement in display quality and 4G connection speeds. But the way it was announced reminded me more of John Sculley’s Apple… →
Opinion: Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion — why Apple Suddenly Sucks
This last week has been fascinating. Both Apple and Microsoft introduced their new operating system for PCs. Interestingly, folks are raving about Windows 8 and ranting at OS X Mountain… →
Opinion: Less-than-wholesome uses for Google’s AR glasses
Google is apparently developing augmented reality glasses that will have a camera and allow artificial images and information to overlay what you actually see. Initially, most people envision these being… →
Opinion: Goodbye dedicated game systems; we’ll miss you when you’re gone
On Wednesday, Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation Vita goes on sale in North America. Our impressions of some of the initial games ranged from outstanding(Super Stardust Delta scored a 9.5), to dismal(Michael… →
Opinion: Will Windows on ARM challenge the iPad where Android has failed?
WOA sounds like what you might tell a horse when you want it to stop, but it’s also the working acronym for Windows on ARM, which Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky recently… →
