For Andrew Brigham, Google’s offer to host Lakehead University’s e-mail system was almost too good to be true. The network administrator for the Thunderbay, Ont.-based university had been struggling with a patchwork of legacy systems and spending half his time just to keep e-mails flowing...
Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc.’s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google’s broadening reach is giving it unchecked power. This scrutiny goes deeper than the skeptical eye that lawmakers and the Justice Department have...
Google and Yahoo radically revised their proposed search advertising alliance on election eve in a bid for regulatory approval before deal-averse Democrats storm Washington D.C. As if the recession was not enough of a deterrent, more stringent regulatory reviews and restrictions expected with a Democratic...
Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is the biggest loser - again. After four months of trying to get a controversial search pact past regulators, Google decided to dump Yahoo! rather than face a courtroom fight. "Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement and...
The technology blueprint of President Elect Barack Obama, if implemented as promised, bodes well for the future of Cloud Computing. Let me consider some of the Barack Obama's Technology proposals and explain how it is relevant to the success of Cloud Computing. His proposals include:...
One of the biggest challenges facing IT organizations is pinpointing the location of critical data throughout the enterprise. As businesses grow, data and its use grow exponentially. From personally identifiable information and customer information to trade secrets and data governed by regulations, much of this...
Dall'apparizione di Google Chrome in avanti, sembra quasi che la necessità più importante per un browser sia avere un porn mode, ossia una modalità di navigazione particolarmente attenta alla privacy e che cancelli in automatico ogni traccia della navigazione al momento di chiudere la sessione. Leggi...
Il filmato, brutale, era stato realizzato in un istituto tecnico torinese e mostrava alcuni giovani mentre maltrattavano e offendevano un compagno di classe autistico. Le immagini choc, riprese con il telefonino e diffuse in Internet, galleggiarono nella Rete per due mesi. Leggi tutto...
OpenId, l'identificativo unico per gli utenti di Internet, sta facendo litigare i suoi stessi ideatori, con Google che sembra cambiare idea ogni tre giorni, apparentemente preoccupato da questioni di privacy e sicurezza. Leggi tutto...
A pochi giorni dal suo esordio italiano, "Street View" di Google Maps è finito nel mirino del Garante della privacy. Attivo a Milano, Roma, Firenze e Como, il nuovo servizio del motore di ricerca consente di effettuare delle vere e proprie passeggiate virtuali lungo le...