Eric Lundquist

The New York Times was first (I think) with a story about Google’s upcoming voice search service. The first product will work with Apple’s iPhone. Sometimes consumer tech products are not that big a deal for businesses, but this one matters. In the last several years all the major vendors have jumped into unified communications […]

Remember the SWOT analysis? Before business intelligence, the hype curve and the BCG matrix, there was SWOT. Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats were four boxes on a grid where you could work through a company strategy and see if you had a chance of success. SWOT seems to have been born full grown sometime in […]

Okay, life is getting hairy out there in techland. Sun Microsystems is cutting nearly twenty percent (6,000) employees, venture capitalists who couldn’t shovel money fast enough into lame web 2.0 startups are starting to preach cost control and the – sort of but not quite – closing of the Valleywag gossip site means that the […]

Here in Boston there are lots of discount furniture stores advertising on television. There is Bob’s Discount Furniture — home of the Bob-o-pedic mattress and Jordan’s megastore furniture stores which include movie theaters and all sorts of entertaining diversions to occupy you while the salesfolk endeavor to separate you from your money. One common advertising […]

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 […]