Eric Lundquist

By Mike Vizard Addressing an audience full of European dignitaries that in included the president of France and the chancellor of Germany, the head of Germany’s national IT association called for the creation of a European consortium that would be the equivalent of an Airbus consortium for the technology sector. Dr. August-Wilheim Scheer, president of […]

Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years. At this evening’s keynote at the opening of the CeBIT computer tradeshow in Germany, Ballmer departed from his prepared script long enough to say, “I’ve got about another nine good years […]

By Mike Vizard Speaking at the Opening of the Cebit Conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the industry is on the cusp of what amounts to a fifth revolution in computing that will drive a new wave on innovation. Ballmer said the catalyst for this revolution will be the increase of processing power in the […]

By Mike Vizard In a sign of things to come, Microsoft announced at CeBit today that it has signed a unique partnership with a provider of Internet services in Germany to monitor power consumption in people’s homes. The service, from a company called Yello Strom, leverages a device, dubbed Yello Sparzahler, that runs an application […]

I’ve been watching and listening the Microsoft execs as they try to come up with their spin on cloud computing. It was Steve Ballmer speaking today (Monday, March 3) at CeBIT in Germany where I think he came the closet to the new Microsoft pitch. What follows is not Ballmer’s speech word for word, but […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came to CeBIT today and played a decidedly green card to appeal to the sensibilities of the European community. As part of an overall effort to reduce the amount of power consumed by systems running products developed by Microsoft, the company said it is making available a set of Data Center […]

The following is a blog entry by Tom Henderson. I’ve traveled with Tom to several CeBITS and I asked him to do some blogging this year on his take on CeBIT 2008. Attendees to the re-vamped CeBIT 2008 Trade Fair and Conference will face a wintery forecast and a possible transit strike on their way […]

By Mike Vizard Solution providers may have just heard the shot fired around the world when Microsoft announced today at CeBIT that it is now offering beta versions of both Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint as online services for all customers. Previously, Microsoft had limited this service offering to only large enterprise customers, but today Microsoft […]

OK, I’m old enough to remember when business travel always involved some adept tech juggling as you tried to get an email connection. I mean sufficiently old to remember acoustic couplers stuffed, taped to odd shaped phones and stuffed between a couple of pillows. More recently, getting a connection has involved juggling sim cards and […]

This is a blog post from my colleague Mike Vizard. The fragility of internal security controls is high on the minds of the German people in the wake of a recent tax scandal. Citizens of Germany that had been hiding certain financial assets from their government by creating bank accounts in nearby Lichtenstein were shocked […]

This is a post from my colleague Mike Vizard. He’ll be blogging on his own site in a bit. One of the benefits of being part of the Schneider family of companies is that APC can now reach out to a lot of sources for products, one of them being a German company named Stolz […]

Amid all the focus on consumer social networks and possible takeovers of big portal companies such as Yahoo, it’s easy to overlook the new products, services and healthy financial results of companies in the B2B space. Yet overlooking those results would be a mistake for several reasons. First, if the nervousness about a U.S. recession […]