Appliance of faience

DELL HAS AGREED to flog Google hardware. The PC maker sasy it will sell Google Search Appliance and Google Mini devices direct to corporate customers.

Dell already makes the boxes for Google, the firm has not been flogging them until now.

"Having Google Search Appliance and Google Mini bolsters our enterprise offerings and simplifies the search engine process for our commercial and public customers," said Terry Klein, vice president at Dell's Americas Advanced Solutions Group.

Full story: theinquirer.net 

Labels: computer, Google Mini, hardware, PC

You may associate Google with California, or perhaps with New York or Boston, where the company has important offices. But it’s with the governors of Minnesota and Kansas that the search giant has reached a new deal.

Actually, Google, Dell, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and the World Wildlife Fund are all members of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, but Google seems most closely tied to this new development. “We can reduce the energy used by computers by 50% or more,” the company’s director of clean energy, Bill Weihl, told Elizabeth Landau.

Read more: webpronews.com 

Labels: climate, computer, green, PC

While looking through the latest quarterly results from Microsoft and Google last week, it struck me that Google's companywide revenues had, for the first time, exceeded the sales in Microsoft's Client division, the unit that makes Windows for PCs. That's no small feat, and I decided to explore the competitive and symbolic implications in this week's Software Notebook, in Monday's newspaper.

As detailed in the story, there are all sorts of qualifiers that come into play when making that comparison. It's definitely not an apples-to-apple kind of thing. But the financial milestone underscores Google's revenue growth and illustrates why Microsoft has been trying to further diversify its business, in areas including Internet search and online advertising.

Read more: seattlepi.com 

Labels: Internet, iPod, microsoft, PC, Windows

Hard Times with Ingram Micro

Is there no end to this company's ambitions? Google has signed up Ingram Micro, the world's biggest IT wholesaler, to distribute its hardware search appliance box in the US.

Distributors are useful for credit, delivery and product returns. They are used to making next to no money and love new products where the margins flow freely and the vendor marketing budgets are generous.

Does Google fit the bill? As the world's most efficient advertising network, it has little need to turn to others to make market on its behalf. But its name is not yet synonymous with enterprise search - Autonomy and FAST are contenders too.

Read more: channelregister.co.uk 

Labels: computer, hardware, Ingram Micro, IT, PC