Unified Mobil And Cell Phone Systems
Are we getting nearer to the day when businesses will issue one phone to an employee and the phone will have sufficient smarts to seek out the cheapest and best connection at any location? I think so and I...
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Full name: Eric Lundquist Bio: Since 1996, Eric Lundquist has been Editor in Chief of eWEEK, which includes domestic, international and online editions. As eWEEK's EIC, Lundquist oversees a staff of nearly 40 editors, reporters and Labs analysts covering product, services and companies in the high-technology community. He is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings and user events and sits on numerous advisory boards. Eric writes the popular weekly column, **QTE**Up Front,**QTE** and he is a confidant of eWEEK's Spencer F. Katt gossip columnist. |
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:17 AM/EST
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:55 AM/EST
The Hottest Game Board In The World
By Tom Henderson A widely-accepted aphorism is that gaming and porn started the microcomputer industry--both of them entertainment, and both have their addicting qualities for some. While there's no real porn at CeBIT (unless you like multi-directional GIS displays), gaming...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:16 AM/EST
Tom Henderson: Solar Sweat (shirts)
It seems natural: solar chargers connected to lithium ion batteries, all nicely snugged into a hyper-cool jacket. The 'smartTextiles" village at CeBIT is where eventually, Armani will meet Jobs-- and play catch-up to the enormous varieties of techno-clothing at the...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:54 AM/EST
Tom Henderson: Don' t NOC It, Till You've Tried IT
The GreenIT initiative at CeBIT is centralized in a small area of CeBIT's Future Park (Building 9), and while the displays aren't enormously awesome, the scuttlebutt was amazing. While hardware and OS vendors attempt to find the right trade-offs...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:48 AM/EST
Tom Henderson: The CeBIT Weather Report
Let's suppose for a moment, that you're the head of a company that has had brush after brush with EC authorities over your business practices. They've fined you heavily, and you've fought them tooth and nail. Then they fine your...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:07 AM/EST
Microsoft's Turner Champions Virtualization At CeBIT
Microsoft's approach to virtualization and the virtualization business was changed by the recent introduction of Windows Server 2008. . That none to gentle dig came from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner as Microsoft kept up the pace of news introductions and...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:46 AM/EST
Siemens is thinking Unified
So, when you think of the name Siemens you think open, software and unified communications, right? Well, I don't but Siemens seems to be making a sincere effort to build a unified communications platform based on the SIP protocol. The...
Monday, March 03, 2008 1:40 PM/EST
Ballmer Calls for a Fifth Revolution at Cebit
By Mike Vizard Speaking at the Opening of the Cebit Conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the industry is on the cusp of what amounts to a fifth revolution in computing that will drive a new wave on innovation. Ballmer...
Monday, March 03, 2008 1:34 PM/EST
Steve Ballmer's Nine Year Retirement Plan
Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years. At this evening's keynote at the opening of the CeBIT computer tradeshow in Germany, Ballmer departed...
Monday, March 03, 2008 1:07 PM/EST
German IT Leader Calls for Consortium Based on Airbus Model
By Mike Vizard Addressing an audience full of European dignitaries that in included the president of France and the chancellor of Germany, the head of Germany's national IT association called for the creation of a European consortium that would be...
Monday, March 03, 2008 10:02 AM/EST
Microsoft to Monitor Your Home
By Mike Vizard In a sign of things to come, Microsoft announced at CeBit today that it has signed a unique partnership with a provider of Internet services in Germany to monitor power consumption in people's homes. The service, from...
Monday, March 03, 2008 9:59 AM/EST
Microsoft Uses CeBIT to Rock the Channel
By Mike Vizard Solution providers may have just heard the shot fired around the world when Microsoft announced today at CeBIT that it is now offering beta versions of both Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint as online services for all customers....
Monday, March 03, 2008 9:56 AM/EST
Mike Vizard Watches Ballmer Play the Green Card
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came to CeBIT today and played a decidedly green card to appeal to the sensibilities of the European community. As part of an overall effort to reduce the amount of power consumed by systems running products...
Monday, March 03, 2008 9:51 AM/EST
Steve Ballmer's Plan to Manage the Clouds
I've been watching and listening the Microsoft execs as they try to come up with their spin on cloud computing. It was Steve Ballmer speaking today (Monday, March 3) at CeBIT in Germany where I think he came the closet...
Monday, March 03, 2008 9:11 AM/EST
Tom Henderson's CeBIT
The following is a blog entry by Tom Henderson. I've traveled with Tom to several CeBITS and I asked him to do some blogging this year on his take on CeBIT 2008. Attendees to the re-vamped CeBIT 2008 Trade Fair...
Monday, March 03, 2008 6:19 AM/EST
Riding the 3G In Europe
OK, I'm old enough to remember when business travel always involved some adept tech juggling as you tried to get an email connection. I mean sufficiently old to remember acoustic couplers stuffed, taped to odd shaped phones and stuffed between...
Monday, March 03, 2008 6:10 AM/EST
Lack of Internal Security Leads to Diplomatic Incident
This is a blog post from my colleague Mike Vizard. The fragility of internal security controls is high on the minds of the German people in the wake of a recent tax scandal. Citizens of Germany that had been hiding...
Monday, March 03, 2008 6:05 AM/EST
APC Due to Replace FM AC Line?
This is a post from my colleague Mike Vizard. He'll be blogging on his own site in a bit. One of the benefits of being part of the Schneider family of companies is that APC can now reach out to...
Friday, February 29, 2008 1:07 PM/EST
Why CeBIT Matters
Europe matters to U.S. technology company vendors and customers more than ever before.
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