Rob Enderle
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward-looking emerging technology advisory firm. Before founding the Enderle Group in 2003, Rob was the Senior Research Fellow for Forrester Research and the Giga Information Group. He holds an AA in Merchandising, a BS in Business, and an MBA. He 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.
Smartwatches are going to make smartphone screens obsolete
Today’s smartwatches are still rudimentary, but they highlight the appeal of a “modular computer” that could turn your smartphone into a hub for a raft of different screens and other connected devices.
Roomba vs. Neato: Robots Battle To Clean My Home
I brought rival robotic vacuum cleaners into my house, and instead of bloodshed, I got really clean floors. Here’s how the Neato robotic vacuum cleaner stacks up beside the better-known Roomba.
How Qualcomm’s Snapdragon gave the Nokia 1020 its fire-breathing camera
Nokia’s Lumia 1020 has drawn attention for its powerful 41-megapixel camera, but few people realize just how much processing power it takes to deal with all that raw data.
No magic, no Apple: Cupertino’s identity crisis in the fading afterglow of Jobs
Can Apple retain its “magical” reputation without a magician like Steve Jobs casting his spell? If it’s current product line is any indication, the future doesn’t look too dazzling.
Whoops! How AMD (inadvertently) prepared Intel to crush cable companies
While Intel faces an uphill battle with cable giants to usher in its new TV service, it turns out years of warfare with AMD have perfectly trained it for the fight ahead.
What would Apple’s take on Google Glass look like?
Google has stepped out in front of competitors by rushing the first connected glasses to the market, but if the past is any indication, Apple is watching and waiting. What would its late-arriving competitor to Google Glass look like?
After a decade of hardware duds, Microsoft gets it right with the Xbox One
Microsoft’s dismal hardware track record may be coming to an end with the Xbox One, which shows every indication of smart design and engineering from the ground up.
Our wireless future will bring breakneck speeds and tablet-powered homes
Advances in wireless technology and faster mobile processors have Qualcomm anticipating a future filled with effortless connectivity, anywhere, any time.
The ‘Phablet’ isn’t a ‘Phad’ or a Phase – massive phones are coming
Samsung’s S4 is great, but it has nothing on the 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega Phone, which is just one more sign that the phablet category is growing as fast as our phone screens.
What makes a phone “cool,” anyway?
Last week’s column on Apple losing its cool sparked plenty of debate and got me thinking: how do we decide what phone’s are cool, and do any of the current contenders qualify?
How Apple lost its cool (and how it can win it back)
Apple’s once-untouchable hipness has faltered in recent months, and as some of its most recent ads demonstrate, the company doesn’t seem to know how to win it back.
Say ‘mortified!’ Google Glass will turn strangers into your personal paparazzi
Get a thrill from watching every celebrity misstep dissected on the Internet? Don’t get too smug. The proliferation of personal cameras may make you the next inadvertent Web sensation.
AMD and Nvidia lock horns on a race to the cloud
Cloud gaming is the future, but neither of the titans controlling today’s gaming space have established firm control of it, and each have very different plans.
What happens when we can whip up movie-grade CGI in real time?
Photorealistic computer animation has already made its way into movies, but when new technology makes it possible to generate these graphics on the fly, all sorts of doors will open.
Google Glass, Google Shoes, and the horror of living in a Google World
Google Shoes may have been a mere concept for SXSW, but the possibilities illustrate how a cyborg future is not far off, and it might look less like Ironman’s Tony Stark and more like Star Trek’s Borg.
Could the new Oz movie do for 3D cinema what the original did for color?
When The Wizard of Oz debuted in 1939, it introduced audiences to the wonders of what color film could do. Is it possible Oz the Great and Powerful could pull the same routine for 3D in 2013?
Technology is watching my every step, and I love it
The latest fitness gadgets trumpet your exercise to the world – and use peer pressure to keep you moving.
