2 posts and columns on corporate IT

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What Bugs You About Technology at the Office?

in News on November 17, 2009 at 2:35 pm PT

On Monday, the WSJ published a story arguing that companies should give their employees more freedom to decide what technology to use in the workplace. Predictably, it touched a nerve among people who work in corporate information-technology departments, some of whom said in the comments section that the writer (that would be me) was more or less advocating technology anarchy inside companies.

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The Next Target for Google: Corporate IT Budgets

in News on March 20, 2009 at 4:15 pm PT

There’s an old debate in the Valley about whether Google is really a media company or a technology company. In a sense, it is a silly debate, which is mostly a matter of semantics. A better question is this: Now that Google has become one of the world’s largest media companies, at least as measured by advertising dollars, what does it do next?