Eric Lundquist

As our review of Intels Centrino chip set outlines, the chip giant got a lot right in this new line. At the companys glitzy product launch in New York last week, company President and CEO Craig Barrett championed the chip sets low power usage and mobile capabilities, and an analysis by eWeek Labs Director John […]

NEW YORK – I got up early this morning and took a car service to Bostons Logan airport. There were no hotspots in the car. I ran to the Delta shuttle at Logan and had no time to look for hotspots, as I was tied up trying to get my shoes back on before the […]

What is the best IT architecture for your company? Which vendors should you support that will help you build that architecture rather than simply try to sell you more product in these economic doldrums? In this weeks special report on enterprise architecture, Technology Editor Peter Coffee does an outstanding job traversing the current buzzword-laden landscape […]

“We make the Net work,” Sun President Scott McNealy told the gathering at last weeks annual stock analysts meeting. While there are lots of company symbols and logos that make little sense, McNealys statement on the 21st anniversary of the company is concise in presenting both the challenge and the opportunity not only for Sun […]

What would you do with a $2 billion (yes, billion) IT budget? Revamp your entire computer infrastructure? Offer Web-based services that forever distance you from the competition? Outsource the whole thing and put cash back in the corporate till? In this weeks issue, Stan Gibson interviews an exec who is key in spending that budget, […]

On Wednesday, the day before Dell Computer announced its latest quarterly results, I was at the companys Round Rock, Texas, headquarters for a series of technology briefings when Michael himself stopped by. Having interviewed the companys namesake several times over the years, by now I think Im getting pretty good at judging the health of […]

Last week in an SEC filing (as detailed in a story by Peter Galli), Microsoft raised a warning flag over open-source software. Microsoft execs fear the open-source model is about to start eating into the companys enterprise business. Far be it from me to remind anyone of Microsofts development and pricing of the Internet Explorer […]

Outsourcing is a great idea—if you use it to improve your companys technology use rather than for simple slash-and-cut accounting. When J.P. Morgan Chase and IBM announced a $5 billion outsourcing deal, we were interested in the story behind the story. Was this a multibillion-dollar bet being placed by J.P. Morgan on IBMs on-demand plan […]

What does the March 1 startup date of the Department of Homeland Security mean for private industry? And, in particular, the parts of private industry charged with maintaining data security? That date holds special importance as companies try to balance IT security, business innovation and a continuing balky economy. In this weeks special eWeek Labs […]

“Glanceable information” was the somewhat tortured description Bill Gates used during his keynote last week at the Consumer Electronics Show to explain the content well be looking at in the next generation of digital watches, PDAs and other consumer appliances. Using Microsofts SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) gadgets, users will be able to glance at […]