Eric Lundquist

Is your company flat? Is your company paranoid? Do your managers manage by walking around? All those terms have always been printed in boldface type in the consultant’s lexicon, but aside from fodder of Dilbert cartoons, those terms are usually just that, terms instead of actions. But as the power of consumer social technologies becomes […]

I wrote this last spring, good call if I do say so myself Stumbling giants. Consider this: Microsoft recently said they are going to dip into their massive savings to put an extra $2 billion or so into the fight against Google. And this: Intel is going to revamp the entire company in large part […]

Was there something missing from your technology experience last week? Did you get the strange feeling that you should really be wandering around garish, over the top trade booths listening to vendors spew promise after false promise? Did you think that the only really appropriate way to get from one convention site to another is […]

As luck would have it, I got the editorial sample of Purosol Plasma Molecular Screen Cleaner at the same time I noticed that all my fingerprints and spilled coffee on my ThinkPad laptop were really making it tough to read the screen. A couple of squirts, a rub with the special cloth that comes along […]

Add A Terabyte or Three With Infrant ReadyNAS 4-Drive SATA NAS Home/Office Network Device Can Also Stream Media Directly by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Infrant Technologies Product Names: ReadyNAS NV+, 1000S ($649/$849 diskless, $2,999 with 4 750GB SATA drives) Repertoire Media Server ($3,999 and $4,999) Availability: Now Product URL: http://infrant.com/products/products.php Infrant Technologies’ trio of […]

Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef A/B/G MIMO Router, Adapter Pump Up The Bandwidth by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Ruckus Wireless, Inc. Product Name: MediaFlex Router, MSRP $159 MediaFlex Adapter, MSRP $100 Availability: Now. Product URL: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/ The WiFI capabilities built into today’s affordably inexpensive — $30-ish to $150 — home broadband gateways […]

Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Sunbelt Software, Inc. Product Name: CounterSpyware v1.5.82 Price (MSRP): $19.95 (enterprise edition also available) Availability: Now Product URL: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpy.cfm Tech Requirements, Win98SE or higher; MSIE 5.0 or higher One of the big challenges in fighting spyware is that, unlike most […]

U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor(s): U3.com Product Name: U3, U3/Smart, SmartDrive Price (MSRP): Free feature on U3 Smart-enabled drives Availability: Now Product URL: U3.com Tech Requirements, if any: U3/Smart USB drives, Windows XP Want to […]

MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online Free/fee sharing/backup service targets consumers, professionals by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Streamload, Inc. Product Name: Mediamax free/fee online file sharing/storage Price (MSRP): 25GB free; 100GB for $4.95/month (larger amounts, yearly discounts available) Availability: Now. Product URL: www.mediamax.com Tech Requirements: Javascript/Java-enabled browser A gigabyte or two of free online […]

Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems by Daniel P. Dern (dern@pair.com) Vendor: Pure Networks, Inc. Product Name: Network Magic 4.0 Price (MSRP): $29.99 for 3PC (free version also available) Availability: Version 3.3 now, Version 4 soon Product URL: http://networkmagic.com/ Tech Requirements: Windows (98 SE or later ); MSIE 5.5 […]