Eric Lundquist

I’m in Berlin, Germany, for a few days attending the IFA (world’s biggest consumer electronics show? Depends who is counting, but it is big) show and taking part in three panels. So what is there for U.S. information tech execs to learn from consumer electronics? The answer is some old and some new lessons. Design […]

Hewlett Packard recently proved to be the only bright spot in a gloom-driven financial market. The company continues to grow, to enjoy robust sales internationally and continues to sell enough ink and printer cartridge refills to float the tech segment boat. Now the company has to finish integrating EDS, see if the computer hardware (including […]

“Free the airwaves” is one of those feel-good mottos that it seems like everyone should agree to. I mean, who put those airwaves in jail in the first place? Well, in this case it was the government regulators who were putting some space between wave signals to prevent one station from stepping on another. I […]

Journalists like nothing better than a good race and in the mud wrestling match. No, I’m not talking about the Olympics. I’m talking about TechCrunch versus Demo conferences which both take place at the same time and claim to represent the best of the new startups. Demo has the longetivity, but TechCrunch has the brash […]

Yes, next week I’ll be heading to Berlin along with 6,500 other reporters, writers and journalists to report on the IFA consumer electronics show in Germany. I’ll also be at three panels comparing and contrasting the U.S. and European high tech markets. One panel will be talking about what consumer electronics companies can learn from […]

Gartner is predicting that worldwide IT spending will hit $3.4 Trillion (that is trillion) in 2008 which is up eight percent over 2007.Gartner provided the following spending chart: Table 1 Worldwide End-User Spending (Billions of Dollars) 2007 2008 2009 Computing Hardware 382 408 423 Annual Growth (%) 10 7 4 Software 178 196 211 Annual […]

Over at the Wall Street Journal business technology blog, writer Ben Worthen has a blog on the end of best of breed software.I’m not positive you will be able to read the blog as the WSJ likes to throw up its own wall every once in while to try to get readers to subscribe. The […]

The New York Times today has an extensive story on the international hacking ring that allegedly stole about 45 million credit and debit card numbers. The network spanned continents, included at least one informant who appears to have played both sides of the fence and after reading it would leave both customers and IT execs […]

The promise of blogs and blogging and all the associated other social networks is that they would outsmart, outdistance and outshine the main stream media (MSM). While I believe some of that happened initially, lately much of the blogging simply seems to be bloggers echoing one another and echoing the top MSM stories. The most […]

Nice piece on CNN today about the narrowing advantage of outsourcing manufacturing to China. Not only rising fuel costs, but also a rising standard of living means increased taxes and payrolls. Might signal a big change in where high tech goods will be manufactured.

Sensational headline, but the story should be dated December 10, 2004. That is the date on a paper entitled, “Privacy, SmartCards and the MBTA with a subtitle of A Policy Analysis of the MBTA’s New Automated Fare Collection System.” You can find a reference to the paper on Wikipedia.That paper did a great job at […]