Google's chief technology officer Craig Silverstein claims the future of search technology will see science fiction become science fact, but in the meantime, the best option is to fake it.
IBM is promoting a new standard to allow interoperability between software that helps corporations search for and analyze unstructured data across their corporate networks, including e-mails, Word documents and anything that is not formatted in columns and rows.
With one new Web site compromised every 14 seconds, including some of the biggest names, it's almost impossible to tell what's a "trustworthy" Web site. But who's at fault for exposing Internet users?
After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks.
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
Google has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) which will see it agree to cross-license open- source-related patents to other members free of charge.
IBM said it is developing an application to analyse how discussions on blogs and other Web sites are affecting a given corporation's image.
IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes.
IBM Australia and Fujitsu are believed to be going head to head over a likely ICT outsourcing deal at NSW RailCorp amid moves by the rail network to rationalise its unwieldy, inefficient information environment.
Software maker Compuware has charged IBM with keeping back key evidence in a long-running legal battle over copyright and anticompetitive practices
Australian start-up Proteome Systems has teamed up with IBM to land a multi-million dollar deal to provide Charles River Laboratories International with technology related to proteomics, which is the study of protein structure and function.
IBM brings portal software that integrates service oriented architectures to its mainframe and midrange server lines.
IBM is gearing up to try its hand at Linux diplomacy.
Upset his company's Web crawlers are being locked out of social networks like Facebook, the CEO of Google is again pressing for social networks to open up for the good of the consumer.
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