Eric Nee

Ask the average person what a mashup is, and they might guess its the latest exotic drink, or perhaps the result of a particularly nasty car accident. But dont let the goofy name fool you. Mashup refers to a new type of Web site that stands a good chance of changing the way Web applications […]

The U.S. is the world leader in any number of critical Information Age technologies, but in one significant area it has been a laggard: consumer broadband. Weve got backbone bandwidth to burn criss-crossing the country, but too little of it makes its way into the home. That situation is changing—and it is changing faster than […]

Chinas meteoric rise from a closed, near- feudal society to the most dynamic economy on the globe has been mostly good news for U.S. CIOs and captains of technology. An enormous supply of cheap labor, coupled with modern factories, means that prices for most high-tech gear should remain low for years to come. Armies of […]

Need to find out which U.S. cities have the largest numbers of Korean-born residents for the launch of a new product? Google it. Want to locate someone you used to work with to offer her a job? Google her. Looking for the latest news about your lunch dates employer? Google the company. It wasnt that […]

As if cast in the image of its creator Linus Torvalds, Linux has become the fair-haired boy of the computer industry. Over the past dozen years, Linux has grown in popularity and matured in capability at a fast if not spectacular rate. Today it stands on the cusp of becoming one of just two contenders […]

I was having dinner with a couple of friends recently when one of them mentioned that a team of engineers from Intuit was going to visit his house and spend a couple of hours watching him use Quicken. Intuit has been doing this for years as part of its “follow me home” program. Instead of […]

Every so often, industries undergo jarring upheavals as innovators forge breakthroughs in technology and new ways of doing business. Companies that once towered comfortably over their rivals are toppled, and new ones rise up to take their place. Thats exactly whats happening in computers as Dell Computer continues to turn the hardware business inside out. […]

During the past two years, business has dramatically cut back on information technology spending, and next year is shaping up to be nearly as bad. Considering the dismal state of the economy and the exorbitant IT spending that immediately preceded the slump, that should come as no surprise. No one expects IT spending to go […]

Its estimated that there are a mere 7,000 people in the U.S. who pay a monthly subscription to a public Wi-Fi network—and I am one of them. I guess that makes me an early adopter, having subscribed since May, when I began leasing an office in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. I picked that location because […]

It has never been easy for business software companies to break into the exclusive billion-dollar club—hitting $1 billion or more in annual revenues. Only 14 pure software companies (not including giants such as IBM that also sell hardware) have managed to reach the magic number. And it is getting tougher, not easier. Just two companies […]