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China renews Google license, ending standoff

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google said Friday that it has renewed its license with the Chinese government to continue operating in that country, ending a standoff over censorship.

"We are very pleased that the government has renewed our [Internet content provider] license and we look forward to continuing to provide Web search and local products to our users in China," said Google on its blog. More...

07-09-2010 17:05

Calling on Sony and Others, Google Makes a TV Move

SAN FRANCISCO — Google recruited a solid lineup of high-tech companies on Thursday to help it introduce Google TV, a new service that merges the predictable world of television programming with the more chaotic expanse of the Web.

Now it has to persuade the TV audience to turn the living room television into the newest on-ramp to the Internet.

Google TV, which the company introduced at its annual developer conference here, lets people visit any Web site from their televisions and easily search for programs and Web video without scrolling through unwieldy on-screen TV directories.

The service will be built into high-definition TVs and Blu-ray players made by Sony and a set-top box made by Logitech, which also makes PC peripherals like keyboards. It is powered by Google’s Android software, originally developed for smartphones. The devices will go on sale in the fall. More...

05-22-2010 03:53

What Does the Future Hold for IT?

By Susan Cramm Nobody knows how technology will be managed or consumed in 5, 10, or 15 years, but we do know that change is coming.

A recent report from the Corporate Executive Board provided a bold and provocative view of the future of IT based on the premise that "technology will be consumed as part of the business." Here are some of the highlights:

What got us here isn't going to get us there. In spite of valiant and tireless efforts on the part of everyone involved, the current IT organizational model falls short in delivering the capability required by the business ("less than 25% of business leaders rated their organization's IT function effective" and this hasn't changed in the last five years.)

The source of IT-enabled value is shifting. "More than half the opportunities for IT enablement are at the customer interface or involve business intelligence or collaboration" (versus process automation.) These activities are unstructured and dynamic where players make decisions and redefine processes based on the situations at-hand, experience, and available information. Business intelligence, collaboration, and advanced implementations of business process management aren't applications as much as they are toolsets. More...

04-29-2010 15:53

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