Eric Lundquist

Full employment is a concept that should make everyone happy, correct? Not exactly. In its latest—and much-anticipated—technology employment report, the American Electronics Association points to rising wages; to increasing numbers of high-tech jobs; and, in particular, to some professional categories where the unemployment rate is less than 2 percent, which basically constitutes full employment. First, […]

Selling software was once such an easy job. Since most of your costs were associated with creating your first copy of the software, you knew that if you had even a moderately successful product, you could make a lot of money, as every subsequent copy would cost only pennies but would be sold for dollars. […]

What technology company executive doesnt champion innovation? Innovation is held up as the holy grail of high tech. Innovation promises to better the world, raise living standards and provide a good job for everyone. Im sorry to report that innovation often is better championed in concept than in reality. Innovation gets trumped by calls for […]

The hack attack on the TJX computer systems was sophisticated, spectacularly successful and thwarted the security and encryption systems that were in place at the time of the crime. Thats my opinion on the attack following the reading of an SEC filing that, for the first time, provided some detail of how at least some […]

What is the next killer application? This is one of those perennial questions whose answer often seems obvious in retrospect but was not visible when you peered into the crystal ball. While a lot of enthusiasm currently surrounds hosted programs on the Web, I think the killer applications for 2007 will appear in the mobile […]

A lot of technology stories use the word “crunch.” Usually the crunch is a “coming crunch,” as in an expected shortage of IT workers, a financing crunch, or a crunch between user expectations (such as video and television on the Web) and the networks ability to actually deliver the service. It seems there is a […]

I was in Europe last week, with stops in Germany that included a tour of the Frankfurt Airport data center and the annual CeBIT trade show in Hannover. It is always interesting to view the state of affairs in the IT industry from the other end of the lens after spending most of my time […]

HANNOVER, Germany—Round 1 of the ultramobile PC product intros took place here at the CeBIT trade show a year ago. At that introduction, Microsoft, Intel and bunch of PC vendors fell all over themselves extolling the benefits of the UMPC. Like lots of product introductions, the reality was a bit different. The first round was […]

Few remember, but before blogs, reporters would head off to a trade show and at some point file a notebook story of related show information not quite big enough to be blown up into a story of its own, but of sufficient interest to put it in front of a reader. Heres my notebook on […]

As I see it, there are two ways to become a top influencer in any industry. One way is to be able to peer ahead, consider the trends specific to your industry as well as those in the social, technology, business and political climate, and create a product or service aligned with those trends. This […]