Eric Lundquist

Ray Ozzie was hailed as the oracle of the web when he was named Chief Software Architect last June , a title that had been held by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. A favorite of Bill Gates, Ozzie was championed as the techie that would drive Microsoft to the always on nirvana where Google was ensconced […]

Many thanks to the readers who responded to my 10 tips for Michael Dell column that ran online. While some of you argued with suggestions regarding the consumer business, laptops and so on, all agreed that Dell has to focus more on customer service. That makes sense: If you cant keep your current customers happy, […]

RSA Securitys annual security conference is being held this week in San Francisco. Its the first conference since the company was acquired by EMC. The company has always maintained an arms-length relationship with the conference, and I hope that will continue under the new corporate parent. It seems like a good time to step back […]

It was a tag team made for computer success that suddenly went to Dell. In July 2004, with the naming of Kevin Rollins to the CEO job at Dell, the Mike Dell and Kevin tag team was championed as inseparable and unbeatable. Michael Dell, the boy wonder who started the company out of a dorm […]

Hacked to the Maxx: It would be tough to come up with a more distressing start-of-year hacking story than the data breach at TJX Companies, parent company of T.J. Maxx and other retail outlets. As our story by Senior Writer Matt Hines explains, “TJX officials said that outsiders were specifically able to gain access to […]

Do you remember Apples Newton? It was going to be everything you wanted a PDA to be. It could recognize your handwriting. In fact, the term PDA was coined by then-Apple CEO John Sculley (at least according to Wikipedia). The Newton would help you organize your life. But, alas, the Newton was too big, too […]

Like the guest that wouldn’t leave, the pretexting scandal which roiled Hewlett-Packard last year continues to dog the company in 2007. In the latest indication that the scandal which touches the highest executive levels in the company has a long way to go before playing out, Federal prosecutors have recently achieved the first guilty plea […]

I had a lot of fun last week covering the Consumer Electronics Show by not covering it. I wrote a series of “Im not at CES” blogs in which I tried to not only hit on some CES highlights but also talk about other major shows and events of the week. I think there was […]

The big tech news of this week is obvious to anyone. David Beckham, 31, leaving Real Madrid for a $250 million contract to head to La-La Land to kick the soccer ball for the LA Galaxy tops my list. Can Beckham turn the stumbling Major League Soccer franchise from a hopeful to a real money […]

The big tech news of this week is obvious to anyone. David Beckham, 31, leaving Real Madrid for a $250 million contract to head to La-La Land to kick the soccer ball for the LA Galaxy tops my list. Can Beckham turn the stumbling Major League Soccer franchise from a hopeful to a real money […]

So the story goes that the first two calls Steve Jobs gets on the iPhone are first from John Chambers telling Jobs he is suing him over violating the Cisco iPhone trademark and second from the California Attorney General asking Jobs just what he knows about the Apple stock option backdating scandal. OK, the calls […]

Okay, Im not at Macworld either, but more on that later. The big news in shows this week took place in neither Las Vegas nor San Francisco, but in the Motor City at the annual North American International Auto Show. Now, heres the big difference between the world of consumer electronics and Detroits world of […]