Intel has finally won Google back, and the Santa Clara-based company will now resume selling servers to the search engine giant. Reports indicate that Intel had to pull out all the stops to earn Google’s business, though; to be more exact, Intel produced some custom equipment.

Google has announced a speaker series to be hosted at their New York City offices, bringing some cool talks at the Google offices for everyone to enjoy.

A NetworkWorld article quotes Google’s GM of Enterprise Business as saying:

Many organisations face a dilemma in business strategy.

A partnership with Workopolis will put Hotjobs on the sidelines in Canada while giving Yahoo listings from the dominant job board in the Great White North.

I have been reading this short book on knowledge management, by Carl Frappaolo, on and off since the Delphi Business Process Innovation Summit.

The GridView is a new web control in ASP.NET 2.0 and is an improvement of the old DataGrid.

“Lifetime value is expressed as the total dollar value of your average customer over the entire period that they’re likely to do business with you..” – Bob Serling

Ask.com has added something new to their Smart Answer collection by making the International Children’s Digital Library available as a top-of-page resource for children’s literature-related queries.

PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) and P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) are two really nice things to be aware of when developing web applications.

America Online has announced the arrival of it’s “Show Me” website, a user-generated forum geared at providing a means of self-help for visitor in any number of various topics.

There is no denying the increasing business trend to harness the power of the Internet to not only get their message out, but to manage their customer responses.

Okay, so I may have been wrong when I said Hillary Clinton wasn’t as popular as some gym socks. That was based on a completely unscientific straw poll of every sensible person I know. Hitwise has data, though, that suggests otherwise. Traffic to Hillary’s website after her big announcement trounced Barack Obama’s website traffic.

The concept of something being undetectable to search engines, like attempts to game them for better rankings, became a topic again after V7N announced a link buying service that would make such links impossible to detect.

AOL has partnered for a second time with Quest Network’s Blue Zones to allow kids to explore the longest living people in Costa Rica. The first expedition explored the healthy lifestyles of people living in Okinawa, Japan. KOL, AOL’s kids service will be involved in KOL Blue Zones Expedition an educational project that will allow students to participate in directing a team of scientists, explorers and journalists as they explore places where people live the longest.

Those of you based in the UK (and probably some of you who aren’t) may have noticed some recent changes on the BBC website, in particular the update to the audio and video player which now uses Windows Media Player as well as Real Player (it used to be just Real).

Do you give your employees the type of leadership in the workplace that they come to expect? What is it that you think they do expect from you as the boss?