Eric Lundquist

PALO ALTO, CA – OCTOBER 06: Facebook founder …Image by Getty Images via @daylife Facebook is a database with a great user interface on top. Skype is a database that authenticates users and shuffles calls around based on type. Of course all database engineers argue that every software application lives or dies by the underlying […]

Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc…Image via CrunchBase Remember all those blog posts asking if Facebook would be ready for business? I’m not sure that was ever answered but it did give rise to business-oriented Facebook competitors including Salesforce.Com’s Chatter and Yammer. Now I’m guessing that Google’s new Google+ offering will become a business […]

Forbes, via AP, is covering the shuffles at the top of Hewlett Packard . Credit Leo for acting quickly. Changing HP into a true services company is going to be a big task. With high margin items from printers and supplies as well as a strong heritage of hardware, the shift is both necessary and […]

An illustration of an example IPv6 address wit…Image via Wikipedia This falls into the “We’ll see if this hybrid engine works” category. Last fall a bunch of big tech players said they will give IPv6 a trial run. That run takes place tomorrow. Google, Facebook and Yahoo are among those giving IPv6 a trial run. […]

Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision 3 at CrushPadImage via Wikipedia Jim Louderback was a stalwart part of PC Week for many years. Now he is the CEO at Revision 3. And he is still a great writer, especially when he is taking apart the comments of those upper level exec interviews. High tech execs have […]

Eric E. Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google In…Image via Wikipedia This is the week that Walt Mossberg holds his popular D9 conference. Walt does a great job at getting key execs (often THE key exec) from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and the entire panoply of tech movers and shakers. Of course D9 wouldn’t work without […]

Various cellular phones from the last decade.Image via Wikipedia World Health Org experts are saying mobile phones possibly carcinogenic according to the British paper, The Telegram. Wondering why these stories always seem to appear just as I’m ending up a long conference call and couldn’t find my mobile headset.

Google introed its near field communication electronic wallet and even stuffed $10 in it to get you started. This is seen as a challenge to Groupon, PayPal and the other epayment companies — which it is. However, it is also exactly the activities Google should engage in to close a loop that starts at search […]

LinkedIn Goes Public LinkedIn? No. 1? Really? Yes, really. LinkedIn was built from the ground up as a business-to-business social network. It grew up in the shadow of Facebook, but recently proved its value in the public funding marketplace. The LinkedIn public offering will touch off lots of companies thinking that maybe they should be […]

Bloomberg is reporting that Google will be showing its mobile payment system in the next couple days. Google has been one of the biggest proponents of near field communications which, in theory, could bypass not only the credit card swipe but — to the consternation of lots of financial institutions — the credit card companies […]