Eric Lundquist

Bridges, Tunnels and Steampipes Without Control Following the tragic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, state and federal officials have been busy sending out inspectors to take another look at the bridges spanning the roads and rivers in their territories. Despite a century or so of advances in strain gauges, portable metal fatigue detection […]

Jim Lydon was the best business editor, no make that the best editor, I’ve known. I worked for Jim for two years a long time ago (Jim would have thrown that back at me and told me to provide precise dates) at Fairchild Publication’s Electronic News. I came to ENews from the world of daily […]

Update: I put all these tips and more in a slideshow called the eWeek Guide to Green IT You’ve heard that going green in your IT planning is not only good for the environment, but good for your company’s budget. But where to start? I asked two top technology executives for five quick steps that […]

Google versus Wikia and Grub Wikia plus Grub mashup challenges Google Recently I did a short blog entry where I said Google’s biggest competitor is Wikipedia. That comment was made after a steam pipe burst in New York and Wikipedia did a good job of explaining what happened. Today, Wikipedia founder and Wikia (I’ll explain […]

Not a great day for high tech yesterday. The Craigslist crash which I wrote about yesterday? It was only a symptom of a far larger outage that rolled through San Francisco taking down many big name sites and making a major co-location’s guarantees of uptime look silly. And all those people standing in line for […]

Sometimes as you get all wrapped up in the world of web 2.0 and online software as a service capabilities, it is good to remember you are only as good as your colocation facility. Users of Craigslist were recently greeted with this message Error Craigslist and many other sites are having issues at the colo […]

Yesterday Hewlett-Packard acquired Neoware for $214 million. This was the same day that Hewlett-Packard also acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion. While Opsware is designed to rectify data center provisioning and system management problems of the past, Neoware is much more a bet on the computing model for the future. If you were designing a computer […]

Once upon a time there was a company named Loudcloud. It was supposed to be a very important company because it was started by a very important technology visionary named Marc Andreessen. Marc assembled some other very important people, some big venture capital money and went out to tell everyone about why Loudcloud was the […]

I can pick any gas station I want to buy that expensive fuel that powers our cars. When (if) I buy a new car, I can still pick any gas station. And this I think is how the wireless industry should work. I should be able to buy a cell phone with the features I […]

The battle in the clouds. No, this isnt the next sci-fi movie where the Transformers take on the X-Men. Come to think of it, it isnt all that far off from that. For a number of reasons, this summer will be remembered in the high-tech industry as the season when software as a service moved […]

Google’s biggest competitor? Not Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo or any of the other search startups. The biggest competitor is Wikipedia. Not only do the Wikipedia entries always seem to come up first in the Google search results which makes Wikipedia a very valuable advertising mechanism, the entries make sense. I, along with many other web readers, […]