Eric Lundquist

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 […]

I recently wrote a column about the role of technology in the financial meltdown. I’d summarize the column’s content in the following way: Never have so many smart, expensively educated executives spent so much on technology and known so little about the financial health of their companies. The column drew a lot of response, which […]

I feel like I’ve written this column before. The headline could be, “How could Wall Street companies invest so much in technology yet know so little about their businesses?” We’ve recently watched the Lehman Brothers meltdown, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac become wards of the state, and once-big, strong companies such as AIG and Washington […]

I’m at CTIA, keynote session on Thursday. Mobil bar code scanning using an ordinary camera phone and with the idea o f changing how consumers interact. Launch the code scan application, for example you are waiting at the bus stop and notice movie poster, you see a new 2-d barcode and wave the phone over, […]