Eric Lundquist

BOSTON—Are RFID systems secure? This is a good question and one that should be asked before your company jumps on the RFID bandwagon. The question recently acquired an added urgency when a Dutch researcher presented a paper outlining a possible security hole. The answer may lie in cats, cell phones and making sure that you […]

Is the next technology powerhouse India or China or a combination of the two? During an interview at the annual CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, this year, Jörg Schomburg, the CeBIT division director, raised the likelihood of competition from combined operations from India and China. “We all must be on alert,” Schomburg told a […]

I spent a few days in The Netherlands before heading over to the big CeBIT computer show in Hannover, Germany. Other than concluding that New Orleanians should outsource the rebuilding of their city to the folks that keep Amsterdam dry (and Im talking about the land, not the taverns), the trip also provided an opportunity […]

One day after the news leaked out of San Francisco about Microsofts ultramobile PC project, “Origami” was the main focus of discussion at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. With Microsoft, Intel and Samsung all shuttling their execs in to extol the portable, youd think there would be a clear idea of exactly how these […]

The good news is that you are likely to receive incremental spending authority for new IT initiatives in 2006. The bad news is that your IT budget will still not be sufficient to meet your strategic goals. Those numbers, drawn from a survey by CIO Insight (part of the Ziff Davis Enterprise Group, which includes […]

Microsoft would like to sell you a total security platform including the access control, tokens and scanning software intended to make your system hacker- and virus-free. Cisco would like to sell you a total security platform based on an overarching network model that can find, isolate and defeat bad code before it rampages through your […]

“The long tail” started as an article (soon to be a book) by Wireds editor in chief, Chris Anderson. In my imperfect summary, Anderson essentially states that the Internet provides a long life to lots of products and services. Amazon.com is a mix of a few big hits and lots of books that would have […]

Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, recently met with a group of eWEEK editors, where he discussed his corporate agenda, Suns focus on energy conservation, open source and related topics. The following excerpts are from an edited interview. What are the top items on your corporate agenda this year? These are […]

Remember when you would pick an e-mail system based on its unique capabilities? Maybe youd pick cc:Mail or IBM PROFS or even Microsoft Mail for the ability to shuttle e-mail around your company with a reasonable assurance that the message would get to the intended recipient. The rise of the Internet and the World Wide […]

It is time to throw your IT operation in the blender. Where once you would pick a single best-of-breed product and build a business around that choice, today you should be making choices on how products blend with one another. For example, taking a blended approach to spyware may be the only approach that can […]