Eric Lundquist

What would be a good, useful consumer product? Not another social network, that is for sure. But what about a social network made up of the meters, gauges and thermostats that reside in your home? That would be a useful network, and I saw the early stages of it last week at the CeBIT show […]

Are we getting nearer to the day when businesses will issue one phone to an employee and the phone will have sufficient smarts to seek out the cheapest and best connection at any location? I think so and I met up with a few execs at CeBIT who helped confirm my suspicion. Gordon Young, the […]

By Tom Henderson A widely-accepted aphorism is that gaming and porn started the microcomputer industry–both of them entertainment, and both have their addicting qualities for some. While there’s no real porn at CeBIT (unless you like multi-directional GIS displays), gaming is very real, and very well represented. There’s an entire building dedicated to gaming, gaming […]

It seems natural: solar chargers connected to lithium ion batteries, all nicely snugged into a hyper-cool jacket. The ‘smartTextiles” village at CeBIT is where eventually, Armani will meet Jobs– and play catch-up to the enormous varieties of techno-clothing at the village this year. We found fashion (yes, that’s an iPod holder built into the sleeve), […]

Microsoft’s approach to virtualization and the virtualization business was changed by the recent introduction of Windows Server 2008. . That none to gentle dig came from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner as Microsoft kept up the pace of news introductions and executive appearances at the 2008 CeBIT show in Germany. Turned contended with a pricing structure […]

Let’s suppose for a moment, that you’re the head of a company that has had brush after brush with EC authorities over your business practices. They’ve fined you heavily, and you’ve fought them tooth and nail. Then they fine your company again, to the tune of more than $1.3 Billion for continuing misdeed. What do […]

The GreenIT initiative at CeBIT is centralized in a small area of CeBIT’s Future Park (Building 9), and while the displays aren’t enormously awesome, the scuttlebutt was amazing. While hardware and OS vendors attempt to find the right trade-offs in power-saving architectures, there’s apparently a lot that can thwart even some of the best green […]

So, when you think of the name Siemens you think open, software and unified communications, right? Well, I don’t but Siemens seems to be making a sincere effort to build a unified communications platform based on the SIP protocol. The latest effort was displayed this week at the CeBIT trade show when the company held […]

By Mike Vizard Addressing an audience full of European dignitaries that in included the president of France and the chancellor of Germany, the head of Germany’s national IT association called for the creation of a European consortium that would be the equivalent of an Airbus consortium for the technology sector. Dr. August-Wilheim Scheer, president of […]

By Mike Vizard Speaking at the Opening of the Cebit Conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the industry is on the cusp of what amounts to a fifth revolution in computing that will drive a new wave on innovation. Ballmer said the catalyst for this revolution will be the increase of processing power in the […]