Eric Lundquist

I could be wrong here, but a reader sent me note to go check out Google honcho’s Eric Schmidt’s home page at www.Ericschmidt.com. Aside from a nonattributed grab that apparently comes from the Wall Street Journal, the mailto address is a yahoo address. The source code does have the right address for Google. A Whois […]

Back in 2006 during a rash of news about execs losing their laptops with confidential data, I wrote an article titled, “Lundquist’s Guide to Not Getting Fired for Losing Your Laptop.” I was sure that stories such as mine combined with the opportunity for vendors to make some money by adding encryption and additional layers […]

BOSTON-Technology security spending may stall but not freeze as the financial meltdown works its way through the economy; cloud computing has security implications that may stall enterprise adoption; and India has not only caught up, but has surpassed the United States in some key areas of technology infrastructure security. Those conclusions-some based on a yearly […]

Mobility and the enterprise should be a natural fit. The mantra of business consultants has always been about getting to know your customer, getting close to your customer and anticipating your customer’s needs. None of those activities can really take place without enterprise applications that are designed from the ground up to be mobile and […]

What if the government had spent $750 billion to bail out the dot-com companies when the Internet bubble collapsed in 2001? I’ve been thinking about this as I’ve watched the feds run the spectrum from rugged free market individualist (tough luck, Lehman Brothers, don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out) to […]

This is the week for the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando. For the first time in many years, I’m not at the event. Who will make the last call at the Dueling Pianos bar without me? I don’t know. But I do know that not being at the event is giving me an opportunity to […]

OK, the stock market is falling like a rock. Big banks are being bought and sold like overripe bananas. The masters of the financial universe are looking like suckers at the horse race track buying tip sheets printed after each race. And now, even the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley are telling their captive companies […]

Okay, the stock market is falling like a rock. Big banks are being bought and sold like overripe bananas. The masters of the financial universe are looking like suckers at the horse race track buying tip sheets printed after each race. And now, even the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley are telling their captive companies […]

Sometimes the tagline or the company motto that sounded so, so great at the late night lounge meeting comes back to haunt you. That was my reaction today as I followed the breaking news about the CRM startup Entellium (or more correctly empty tillium). The New York Times did a good job at following the […]

First off, let’s raise a glass to IBM. Good old, boring IBM is just what the tech industry, and probably the economy at large, needs right now. While other companies (Microsoft comes to mind here) are busy chasing games, consumer electronics and even Yahoo, IBM has stuck to its strengths. If you are a business […]

2010. There you go. Since the rest of the punditry world has taken to guessing when the current economic meltdown will solidify, and business-including the high-tech business-will get back on track, I figured I should join the guessing game also. Let’s make it September 2010, to be more exact. Here’s my reasoning, with a special […]