Eric Lundquist

It could be called the yin and yang of system design or maybe the challenge of developing a system containing two opposing forces. While application programs are becoming dispersed chunks of content that are assembled on the fly for specific business purposes, the wide-open Internet on which those applications reside is being partitioned, segmented and […]

The hottest action in high tech is taking place in courtrooms and at regulatory agencies. Maybe the shift from the labs and marketplace to legal venues is a sign of high tech becoming more mature, or maybe its a way to keep all those corporate lawyers employed. Whichever the case, recent decisions by the U.S. […]

From all appearances (and most notably for me, judging by my bank account) the merger of accounts between Bank of America and Fleet Bank went well during the weekend of June 18-19. The following Monday, my former Fleet account looked like a Bank of America account from my browser and, near as I could tell, […]

Nothing you could have done to ensure your privacy or protect your personal data would have made any difference in the hack that saw payment processor CardSystem Solutions potentially expose 40 million people to theft. That hack had nothing to do with trying to scam personal data from home computers and everything to do with […]

Heres a sure bet: now that the $9.4 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment by Harrahs Entertainment has been completed, technology execs at the combined company will be called on to make the wager pay off. And while much focus is given to big banking mergers, struggling airlines and the Wal-Mart-ing of retail America, it may […]

Despite the tech media frenzy over the past week, there actually has been more going on in the tech world than Apples decision to become an Intel Insider. From its start with the MOS Technologies 6502 processor, Apple has been able to get seemingly limitless coverage every time it changes an engine. Considering that its […]

What is the upside of compliance? One consultant told me that compliance is great for his business. (“Its like Y2K every year,” he explained.) But Im convinced there are benefits for companies and customers as well—benefits that extend beyond keeping the CEO out of jail and off the front page. You can find a wide […]

The most interesting demonstration Ive seen in quite a while was the demo of the upcoming “Mendocino” workflow product at the recent Sapphire users conference in Boston. Mendocino, a product jointly developed by Microsoft and SAP, ties in to the back end of SAPs enterprise management system and promises to deliver familiar desktop management tools […]

My intent was to write about the improving state of computer security. However, before starting, I had to clear up all the spew in my in-box from the 16th variant of the Sober worm, which had spent the weekend vomiting neo-Nazi spam into in-boxes around the world. Is political propaganda spam more malicious than product […]

This week, Ill be taking part in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium “eBusiness 2.0: What works, what didnt and whats next.” I look forward to this annual summit since it is one of the few forums where academics, CIOs, analysts, prognosticators and journalists mix well together. Ill let you know how the forum went next […]

Tokyo to Las Vegas is a big leap in distance and culture. Tokyo features a risk-averse, polite culture based on tradition. Las Vegas is based on money, gambling and consumption. I visited both cities in the past few weeks and, from a technology perspective, found a reversal in my expectations. In many ways, Japans mobile, […]

This was supposed to be the time when Japans technology-driven economy would hold the prime spot in much of the worlds business. The country, lacking natural resources, bet on technology, exports and a worldview of industrial development. With the Think Globally, Act Locally theme, the big Japanese companies would be in the forefront of worldwide […]