Xerox Works Deal to Rival Google
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Palo Alto Research Center, a Xerox subsidiary, hopes to build a search engine that could one day rival Google.
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(InfoWorld) - Xerox wooed Wall Street and users last week in New York with a three-day rollout of new printers, software and strategic initiatives that underscored how services will be the engine of growth for the company. The company's long-term message is that Xerox has the broad array of products and services to meet users' requirements for "smarter" documents that, for example, can be tagged with information and automatically routed through a company's workflow. "Documents are containers that have information for human processing," said Anne Mulcahy, chief executive officer and chairman, in a keynote address Friday. "The vast majority of documents are dumb as the day is long. They don't know where they're going and ... don't know how much damage they can do if they get into the wrong hands." The company announced new Xerox Imaging Services Centers in The Netherlands, Spain, and Japan, to complement its centers in the U.S., U.K., Brazil and Singapore, and an existing center in Japan. The centers offer scanning and imaging services that convert hard-copy documents to electronic documents. The company is also eyeing possible locations in India, China and eastern Europe, Global Services President Tom Dolan said in an interview. In an interview after her keynote address, Mulcahy said that to achieve the company's long-term growth goals, she would like to see services account for about 50 percent of company revenue. "Whether that's over the next three, four, or five years, I can't say," she noted. Currently services, including high-end business process services as well as traditional maintenance-type services, account for about 20 percent of the company's revenue -- or $3.3 billion out of annual revenue of $15.8 billion. Xerox also announced the DocuShare Developer's Environment, a set of tools designed to let developers customize the company's DocuShare 5.0 and DocuShare CPX content management software and create workflow applications. For example, the tools let developers tap XML (Extensible Markup Language) to create documents whose content can be automatically reused in business forms. Templates can also be used to personalize blogs and wiki pages while adhering to a common business look and feel. "The drive toward personalization is a great opportunity," Mulcahy said, noting that all sorts of businesses are personalizing marketing messages to the point where they address individuals. "Wheaties can put your picture on the cereal box," she said. A number of printer manufacturers, such as Canon and Ricoh, have kept up the competitive pressure on Xerox, especially in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, noted Riley McNulty, a research manager with market research company IDC. "But it's really Hewlett-Packard that has the real breadth and scope that Xerox has," he said. A new printer announced this week, the WorkCentre 4150 black-and-white multifunction printer aimed at the SMB market, addresses competition in that area, he said. The 4150, starting at $2,199, offers speeds up to 45 pages a minute, simultaneous copy, print, scan and fax functions, and queue-management functions.
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Microsoft on Thursday will launch its long-promised Internet search engine, which will compete directly with market leader Google, sources close to the company said Tuesday.
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Google is invading Amazon.com turf with its latest Internet service, it was reported Thursday. Google, the search-engine kingpin, is introducing a program called Google Print for book publishers who want to
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New York: Popular internet search engine Google has reached an agreement with four universities and one public library to scan their books and make them available the digitised contents of the same, aiming to challenge competitors Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Docs, Spreadsheets, Folders It's only a matter of time before Google unveils a full-fledged online operating system. This week, Microsoft's biggest rival rolled out a new version of Docs &amp; Spreadsheets - its online answer to Word and Excel - adding Windows-like folders, an improved search engine, and an all-around prettier interface.â¦
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Xerox is unveiling a costly solid-ink printer for businesses that will print color pages at the same price as black and white.
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Google is launching a new service to make books and other printed materials searchable online, the Internet search engine company said Wednesday.
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A new patent could quadruple Google's searching capability.
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The document imaging company is now overhauling its own look and logo to keep better in step with the times. But then, Xerox has always been an innovator at heart, all the way back to the 1960s and the first desktop mouse.
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Merger would combine two well-known names into a potentially potent competitor for Google in lucrative Web search and advertising market.
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Software giant makes bid in an attempt to challenge growing might of Google
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Office equipment maker Xerox Corp.  XRX.N on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit rose 15 percent,  fueled by solid demand for new digital color printers, and the  benefit of the weak dollar.
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VP says, it's all about 'customer intimacy' now... Copier giant Xerox is reaching out to its customers in a touchy-feely approach with the launch of a new global partner programme.â¦
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STAMFORD, Conn. -- Printer and copier maker Xerox Corp., lifted by a gain from a pension settlement related to its Fuji Xerox Co. unit, on Wednesday posted a 39 percent surge in third-quarter profit and raised its earnings target for the year.
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Google on Thursday confirmed a long-rumored deal that will bundle some of its software on Dell Inc.&#039;s personal computers, providing the online search engine leader with another potentially potent weapon in its fierce rivalry with Microsoft Corp.
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Google's next move may be to add a browser offering to its portfolio of  Internet products. A New York Post news report suggests that the  search-engine giant has added employees to develop such a technology based on  the open-source Mozilla browser.