Eric Lundquist

I’ve become a fan of the recharge stations sprouting at the airline terminals. However, those terminals aren’t everywhere and what should you do when your battery charge indicator is hitting zero while the guy with the 100% charge is hogging the only outlet to be found in JFK? Is there a new set of tech […]

10:00 Benioff (the father of cloud computing? The grand old man of the clouds? Can you describe someone as the grand old man of something about ten years old). He is on tour, made stop in New York but is now on the way to England, Middle East, Asia. 10:15 role we have in the […]

It’s tax time! April 15 is not anyone’s favorite date, but as we scramble to dig out receipts for dinners long past and try to figure out where all the money goes, it is also time to think about some hidden taxes. Did you know that your IT network has lots of hidden taxes? Consider, […]

A week after the big RSA security show, the hackers (or phishers or whatever) are back in the headlines. This time the issue is a new twist on phishing attempts which rather than try to reach the masses with promises of cheap viagra and untold riches waiting to be claimed are aimed at the executive […]

If you have the chance, read through Stan Gibson’s interview of General Motors CIO Ralph Szygenda. Ralph is as close to the dean of CIOs as you will find in the U.S. He was early at redefining the role of corporate technology to be based on service agreements with hard benchmarks, redefining the role of […]

The tech news lineup for the week of April 14. Mergers, departures, alliances and (groan) taxes. Mergers. Despite a lackluster economy, or maybe because of it, mergers and their harsher partner takeovers are in the news. Blockbuster shortcircuits Circuit City. This is in the takeover bid category. The $1 Billion proposed takeover was made public […]

When Robert Scoble declares The Era Of blogger’s control is over, you should pay attention. In a series of conversations that sound eerily reminiscent of newspapers complaining about the era of free content and the music industry complaining about ripped off content, the blogosphere is abuzz about what happens when your blog content gets hijacked, […]

Anyone else remember the Olds Vista Cruiser? Now there was a station wagon that had everything including a vista sunroof, third row seating and horsepower that at the highest end included a 455 cubic inch Rocket V-8. The Vista cruiser was designed to include everything you’d want as you, well, cruised along. Windows Vista reminds […]

While much of the focus on what has come to be called cloud computing has been on vast server farms and the technical underpinnings of trying to search all the world’s web content, the database that underlies the cloud has received a lot less attention. Big Table is an ongoing research project to create a […]

One of the unwritten rules of technology takeovers is that hostile takeovers are fraught with peril. When a company’s value is its intellectual capital and that capital walks out the door at the end of each workday, taking a heavy-handed approach to acquisition seems wrong. In any case, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has now put Yahoo […]