Eric Lundquist

Ah, baseball. OK, im a fair-weather fan, as likely to head for the refreshment stand as to stay seated for nine innings and watch every pitch. But that doesnt stop me from listening to the commentators make their early picks of the teams likely to make a run for the pennant. Despite the overriding truth […]

Now that Apple has rescinded its past distaste of all things Windows and is allowing the Macintosh to share space (albeit a walled-off one) with Windows, shouldnt the company just go all the way? All the way would be licensing Dell, HP and Lenovo to run OS X on the Windows systems leaving their factories. […]

The last time i played golf with Gregory Smith, vice president and CIO of the World Wildlife Fund, in Washington, he was playing his typical game and I mine. At the SAS Pro-Am Golf Tournament in 2004, his drives would rocket straight down the fairway. My drives had that great randomness that makes for great […]

How to pay homage to Steve Jobs and Apple as the company turns 30? I certainly cant add onto the plaudits being handed out by the millions. These days everyone loves Steve. Steves even bigger than Bill, who is plenty big in his own right. Steve came up with the earthshaking concept that high-tech products […]

All in favor of innovation, please stand up. Just what I thought, not a person left seated. Now that weve all agreed that innovation is a good thing, lets talk about whether a hacker creating a new computer virus is as worthy an innovator as someone creating a new way to kill that virus. Both […]

How often do we have to read about someone losing a laptop with a bunch of client data? Ive included some links to recent stories: Stolen Fidelity Laptop Exposes HP Workers and Lost Fidelity Laptop Stirs Fear of ID Theft. Stop and think for a second. You are a high-powered road warrior jetting around the […]

The aliens have landed in Round Rock, Texas. No, not a group of Bostonians looking bewildered at the strip mall and Wal-Mart that must be passed before getting to the Dell headquarters, but a company that makes high-end gaming boxes—Alienware. You can read the whole story about Alienware here, and I would be remiss not […]

BOSTON—I caught up with Kevin Ashton just as he was getting back into Boston following a red-eye flight. Kevin is currently the vice president of marketing at RFID vendor ThingMagic in Cambridge, Mass. Moreover, he was one of the co-founders of MITs Auto-ID Center, and was an associate director at Proctor and Gamble. Hes about […]

BOSTON—Are RFID systems secure? This is a good question and one that should be asked before your company jumps on the RFID bandwagon. The question recently acquired an added urgency when a Dutch researcher presented a paper outlining a possible security hole. The answer may lie in cats, cell phones and making sure that you […]

Is the next technology powerhouse India or China or a combination of the two? During an interview at the annual CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, this year, Jörg Schomburg, the CeBIT division director, raised the likelihood of competition from combined operations from India and China. “We all must be on alert,” Schomburg told a […]

I spent a few days in The Netherlands before heading over to the big CeBIT computer show in Hannover, Germany. Other than concluding that New Orleanians should outsource the rebuilding of their city to the folks that keep Amsterdam dry (and Im talking about the land, not the taverns), the trip also provided an opportunity […]

One day after the news leaked out of San Francisco about Microsofts ultramobile PC project, “Origami” was the main focus of discussion at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. With Microsoft, Intel and Samsung all shuttling their execs in to extol the portable, youd think there would be a clear idea of exactly how these […]