Eric Lundquist

Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun…Image via CrunchBase CNN is reporting that Twitter spent $40 million to acquire TweetDeck. I’ve been using TweetDeck since version 1 and have found it improving with each rev. Twitter is finding one of the big rules in Internet publishing to be in full force. You have to keep […]

Ina Fried at All Things D has an article on the Livescribe Pen which is now (albeit via a docking station) connecting to Google Docs and Evernote. I’m an advocate that the really interesting things in tech happen frequently when you connect the physical world to the digital world. Automobile engines, heating and cooling systems […]

Big day yesterday for LinkedIn going public. As TechCrunch chronicled, the valuation went past everyone’s expectations and hit $8.9 Billion. Couple of takeaways come immediately to mind. LinkedIn provided a platform, but it was identified user interaction which provided the value — that is a big change from anonymous visitor or simple user rollups. The […]

And then there were three. Three carriers that is: AT&T, Verizon and-in the rearview mirror-Sprint Nextel. If the worry among the upcoming CTIA show organizers and PR community was that all the news had already been delivered at the Mobile World Congress, AT&T erased that worry March 20 by announcing a $39 billion deal to […]

10 Enterprise Products That Will Shape IT in 2011 by Eric Lundquist The Corporate Cloud Never has so much hype been thrown at such an amorphous product. Cloud computing makes sense for the enterprise but it needs to be secure, private, compliant and easy to deploy. The cloud also needs to be able to refresh […]

IBM vs. Oracle, Mobility, Cloud: What IT Pros Need to Know for 2011 by Eric Lundquist Big Blue vs. Big Red That would be IBM versus Oracle. The successful strategy of IBM built on services versus Oracles strategy of buying up the enterprise software universe is a major act for business-to-business in 2011. CIOs know […]