Eric Lundquist

Who should Dell next invite to the dance? Ive got a few suggestions. Now that Dell is leading the chorus in singing, “Those slower sales are breaking up that old gang of mine,” it is a good time to offer some free advice to Michael, Kevin and the rest of the Round Rock crew on […]

Dell and Google have struck a deal, Googles CEO confirmed on May 25. Speaking at an investor conference in Las Vegas, Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged that Dell and Google have reached an agreement. Schmidt provided few details of the agreement that earlier speculation had placed in the $1 billion range. So far a co-branded […]

So today Ken Lay and Jeff Skillings were were found guilty on all counts. One of the great business lessons in this whole mess (aside from the value of being an honest rather than dishonest business executive) is how e-mail can come back to bite you. Remember that as part of the legal proceedings, 1.5 […]

An MIT poet, herself blind, is helping the blind see via digital technology. Elizabeth Goldring, a senior fellow at MITs Center for Advanced Visual Studies, spent 10 years and called on the help of 30 fellow students and researchers to develop the $4,000 machine. Goldring also helped develop a visual language to accompany the system, […]

Now that the personal electronic information of 26.5 million military veterans has been stolen, it is time to revisit my column, “Lundquists Guide to Not Getting Fired for Losing Your Laptop,” which I wrote in March. I followed that one up with a look at port security after the L.A. Times did an article on […]

Rain. Lots of rain. More than a foot of rain. That was the story last week here in Boston. Once the rainfall passed the foot mark and the roads were washed out and closed, there was ample opportunity for many of us to think about technology, past tech bubbles and preparedness as we listened to […]

Consider this: Microsoft recently said it is going to dip into its massive savings to put an extra $2 billion or so into the fight against Google. And this: Intel is going to revamp the entire company in large part in response to the inroads made by Advanced Micro Devices. And this: Even Dell is […]

Mail call. Time to dip into the e-mail bag and let the readers talk back to the writer. The two columns that have drawn the most, um, vibrant response were on two very different topics. One column dealt with the USB storage devices that turned up for sale outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. […]

In his 22 years as CEO of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy spanned at least four generations of technology that mirrored the evolution of the company. I suppose I would get some disagreement here, but Id mark those four generations as follows: big honking workstation, big honking servers, big network and, today, the virtual era. Now […]

Wall streeters say Duco Cement is the preferred glue for permanently shutting down a USB, serial or any other laptop port that needs to be shut down. I spoke with Ben Campbell, vice president for sales at Safend, about some of the more brute-force methods used to shut off port access, following an investigative article […]

Sometimes, maybe all the time, the simplest way to implement a technology is the best way. My latest evidence of this truth came from a discussion with James Walsh, vice president of IT at Tumi, a South Plainfield, N.J., luggage maker. After being somewhat apologetic for carrying an Ogio rather than a Tumi, I got […]

What happens when the data on your lost USB drive could get someone killed? Thats the question raised by the staggering and troubling lead story in April 13s L.A. Times. In that story, L.A. Times Staff Writer Paul Watson explains how for $40 an L.A. Times reporter bought a gigabytes worth of apparently sensitive American […]