Eric Lundquist

Whose data is it anyhow? The personal technology industry has been roiling of late with the news that Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to provide some anonymous search data related to a Department of Justice subpoena, while Google is fighting the request. The issue highlights an emerging debate that will affect business as well. The […]

Now that Apple has started using Intel chips, will Dell start using AMD chips? While at first the two events may not seem connected, I think they are, but I dont think youll see an AMD chip in a Dell box until certain behind-the-scenes financial and marketing negotiations make sense for Dell. It would be […]

Heres a tech project: Take lots of disparate electronic devices, tie them all in to a new server and make each device available to everyone. Does this sound like some major technology project at your company? It isnt. This project will take place in your living room as your family demands that you build a […]

Im writing this before I head out to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but my expectations are strong for lots of products that will first appear in the consumer arena and make their way into the corporate world. Flat-panel monitors, which no exec would now do without, first appeared in the consumer space […]

What will be the top IT trends in 2006? I know it is a bit premature to outline what will happen in 06 just as the year is getting under way, but here goes. The confluence of location, identity and mobility. Each year the prognosticators have been saying “this is the year” for—pick one—GPS and […]

Top-trend stories are different from top-news stories. The best trend is one that is little noticed at the time but has a big effect later on. Few people were betting that Google could become more than a really cool search engine when it was formed seven years ago, but look what happened. Here are some […]

• Consistency. In 1996, IBMs then chairman and CEO, Lou Gerstner, set about codifying the rules and the borders between direct sales and sales through the partner channel. Today, except for some relatively minor modifications, those rules still exist, according to Donn Atkins, general manager of IBMs Global Business Partners. Ten years is an eternity […]

NEW YORK—None dare call it a just a videoconference. In the companys first major product announcement since Mark Hurd was named CEO, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday pulled in some major corporate executives here to help announce Halo Collaboration Studio, its new “communication tool” for the enterprise. Halo is a high-end conferencing system that costs approximately […]

The friday after Thanksgiving has been nicknamed Black Friday to connote the official start of the holiday shopping season and is often cited as the busiest shopping day of the year. Although the “busiest day” moniker appears to fall into the urban myth category (www.snopes.com/holidays/thanksgiving/shopping.asp), it starts a retail shopping countdown that can make or […]

Self-deploying technologies—those products or programs that users bring into the corporate network from the outside—are the bane of the IT managers existence. Wi-Fi hot spots are an example of self-deploying technology. In an earlier era, PCs and laptops were hauled into the office by well-meaning employees. Wi-Fi is a great idea, but unless controlled, those […]