Eric Lundquist

I met up with PGP President Phil Dunkelberger in the lobby of the Burlington (Mass.) Marriott recently as he was getting ready to head down to New York City on the Acela high-speed train. He was in town a couple weeks ahead of the big RSA security conference coming up in San Fransciso and was […]

If someone told you they wanted you to bid on something that was free and unlimited, how much would you offer? In the latest round of FCC spectrum auctions (which have been taking place since 1994) the answer this time around was about $16 billion for rights to use the 700 MHz frequency. The winners […]

Wall Street was the gold standard of technology investment. The computing systems on Wall Street had to crunch the most numbers, handle the most transactions and be more secure than those of any other industry. Those financial systems provided the backbone on which the economy depended, and the big Wall Street companies were the darlings […]

There are social networks, and then there is the real world. Where the two meet is the next emerging technology business. The problem with social networks such as Facebook and MySpace is twofold: They rely solely on advertising for revenues, and the larger the network grows, the less attractive the network becomes as spammers, schemers […]

What would be a good, useful consumer product? Not another social network, that is for sure. But what about a social network made up of the meters, gauges and thermostats that reside in your home? That would be a useful network, and I saw the early stages of it last week at the CeBIT show […]

Are we getting nearer to the day when businesses will issue one phone to an employee and the phone will have sufficient smarts to seek out the cheapest and best connection at any location? I think so and I met up with a few execs at CeBIT who helped confirm my suspicion. Gordon Young, the […]

By Tom Henderson A widely-accepted aphorism is that gaming and porn started the microcomputer industry–both of them entertainment, and both have their addicting qualities for some. While there’s no real porn at CeBIT (unless you like multi-directional GIS displays), gaming is very real, and very well represented. There’s an entire building dedicated to gaming, gaming […]

It seems natural: solar chargers connected to lithium ion batteries, all nicely snugged into a hyper-cool jacket. The ‘smartTextiles” village at CeBIT is where eventually, Armani will meet Jobs– and play catch-up to the enormous varieties of techno-clothing at the village this year. We found fashion (yes, that’s an iPod holder built into the sleeve), […]

Microsoft’s approach to virtualization and the virtualization business was changed by the recent introduction of Windows Server 2008. . That none to gentle dig came from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner as Microsoft kept up the pace of news introductions and executive appearances at the 2008 CeBIT show in Germany. Turned contended with a pricing structure […]

Let’s suppose for a moment, that you’re the head of a company that has had brush after brush with EC authorities over your business practices. They’ve fined you heavily, and you’ve fought them tooth and nail. Then they fine your company again, to the tune of more than $1.3 Billion for continuing misdeed. What do […]

The GreenIT initiative at CeBIT is centralized in a small area of CeBIT’s Future Park (Building 9), and while the displays aren’t enormously awesome, the scuttlebutt was amazing. While hardware and OS vendors attempt to find the right trade-offs in power-saving architectures, there’s apparently a lot that can thwart even some of the best green […]

So, when you think of the name Siemens you think open, software and unified communications, right? Well, I don’t but Siemens seems to be making a sincere effort to build a unified communications platform based on the SIP protocol. The latest effort was displayed this week at the CeBIT trade show when the company held […]