Eric Lundquist

While I was in Southern California a few weeks ago, the region was in the midst of the heaviest spell of rain in about 100 years. Last week, I attended CeBIT, and while in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on my way to Hannover, Germany, the city had a tough cold snap and its largest snowfall in about […]

IBM on Monday acquired Ascential Software for $1.1 billion to bolster its tools for integrating enterprise data, which can then be analyzed, categorized and serve as a platform for new business applications. Last week, Microsoft bought Groove Networks, which allows broader dispersion of data in peer-to-peer networks, creating something of a Napster version of the […]

HANNOVER, Germany—Remember those days when you wore a suit and tie and polished shoes to trade shows? Those were the days before casual Fridays influenced—and then took over—the trade show business in the United States. At CeBIT, which started here on Thursday and runs through March 16, that old-style formality is alive and well. I […]

HANNOVER, Germany—The issue of software patents in Europe is headed back to the European Parliament, which is exactly the right place for the debate—and a final decision—to take place, according to the commissioner for Information Society and Media for the European Commission. Speaking at a technology forum hosted by The Economist magazine and taking place […]

HANNOVER, Germany—The biggest threat to the established telecom industry came to the CeBIT show here wearing a pinstriped suit and looking thoroughly corporate. Niklas Zennström, CEO and co-founder of Skype Technologies SA, stopped cold the chatter at CeBITs Technology Industry Summit by announcing that the company that provides free phone calls over the Internet now […]

There are two operating systems on your ThinkPad. There is the one you always use and update (and update). Then there is another one that, although not generally known as an operating system, sits on a hidden partition and allows you to reboot and open files and generally acts as a life preserver should you […]

Steve Mills has been senior vice president and group executive for IBM Software since July 2000. Mills is responsible for IBMs overall software strategy and for managing the Armonk, N.Y., companys $14 billion software business. He met with eWEEK Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist last week at IBMs PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas. Any calls […]

Is Southern California the new Northern California? I had a lot of time last week to think about the shift of Californias high-tech industry southward. During a week of rain, as mudslides moved the ground from Los Angeles South, I had a chance to talk to a number of companies about the tech shift South. […]

Heres some advice for the next CEO to sit in the chair at the HP “innovation garage.” Im sure youre going to get a lot of consultants willing to provide advice about what to do next, but they will be on a retainer basis. The advice here is free and provided by CIOs and technology […]

“Who is Bill Gates?” I asked the new MSN search engine. I hit the return, waited a second and—whoops—read the top Web response indicating that Bill was a very nasty character prophesied by the ever-pessimistic Nostradamus. And thus the new MSN search engine flubbed the initial test I use on every new search engine. To […]