Google Desktop's new search-across-computers feature could put sensitive data at risk and violate US data-privacy regulations, say IT administrators at a public university and a large manufacturing company. Both are banning it from their networks.
A partnership that's expected to be announced on Tuesday in the US between Google and professional services provider BearingPoint, formerly KPMG, aims to make searching across corporate and internal desktops and databases as easy as using Google's Web search page.
To keep pace with rivals, Microsoft plans to announce a business version of its Windows Desktop Search application on Tuesday at the IT Forum in Barcelona.
Microsoft is digging in for a fight with Google in the enterprise search market.
Search giant Google is expected to soon start selling its enterprise search appliance products in Australia, at least four years after early versions went on sale internationally.
Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.
New e-Discovery rules being developed for the Federal Court of Australia will require CIOs to take a more active role in their organisations' legal affairs.
In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.
There's still a lot Microsoft wants to do with Windows, and it has its work cut out with Zune, says Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
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