Eric Lundquist

“IT” turned out to be an overpriced gyro scooter. Excite@Home turned out to be anything but. The Goner virus proved that Outlook users are no safer this year than last. And the stock market took off, making the tech stocks look like, well, tech stocks of old. Id say all these events together prove that […]

Portals are a great product saddled with a tired name. Im not sure when “portal” became attached to Internet activities, but I think it was in early Yahoo days when the idea was floated that Yahoo would provide you with a personal entrance into the Web. While Yahoo still has not figured out how to […]

If you are looking for the three it trends that will be the hallmarks for the rest of the year, you might want to keep the letter “s” in mind. The first “s” stands for security. Once the province of the hacker trying to find a legit way to pay the rent, security, spurred on […]

I went to this years Comdex Annual Trade Show with lowered expectations. The ongoing war on terror, an economic slump and the tech meltdown all pointed to a lackluster event. After a couple days of walking the aisles of the Las Vegas Convention Center, Id say those lowered expectations were exceeded and that Comdex has […]

LAS VEGAS – Microsoft “stands tall” on IT security issues, while IBM does not have a security plan and Suns approach to security is “unconscionable,” according to Microsofts Steve Ballmer. In a wide ranging interview held on the first day of the annual Comdex trade show here and on the day that an American Airlines […]

Heres some advice. Before you embark on an e-commerce project or an upgrade to your e-mail system or corporate Web portal, wait a few weeks. By then, we will have finished our eWeek Labs Special Series on enterprise security, which will be a great document to have in hand as you go about making sure […]

There is nothing like a deadline to make things happen. That is true not only in the publishing business but also apparently in the antitrust business. Faced with a court-imposed deadline, a stagnant economy and a war on terrorism, Microsoft and the feds appear on the verge of patching up their differences. The Microsoft antitrust […]

Within an economy in the swamp, in a world where terrorists abuse the most basic tenets of the civilized world and in a city that needed some good news, Microsoft was able to turn a product launch for a new operating system into something grander last week in New York. The product, Windows XP, is […]

As e-mail is celebrating its 30th birthday, paper mail has become not only an annoyance but also a potential menace. E-mail had its start in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson, principal engineer at BBN Technologies, in Cambridge, Mass., developed a system for electronically mailing users on the ARPAnet. Since that time, e-mail has blossomed into a […]

Most of what we do as a nation—our banking and finance, our electrical power, our telecommunications, our defense, our transportation systems—depend upon computers and computer-controlled systems. By definition, such systems are potentially vulnerable to destruction through new cracker tools and techniques.” A response to the info-war aspects of the World Trade Center attacks? No, the […]