Google Gadgets covers areas including news feeds such as weather radar for Europe or Aljazeera headlines; communications tools such as wireless signal meters or digital clocks; finance feeds such as Bloomberg Stock Watcher; utilities such as device battery meters; wallpaper like an astronomy picture of the day; sports feed such as ICC World Cup 2007 Countdown; and general tools such as Wikipedia search or digital certificate plug-ins.
Presumably, as many of these gadgets could represent distractions, WebSphere Portal will allow administrators to decide that games such as Flower Pot, Cupid’s Gadget, or Kiss Me have no business on a corporate desktop already dominated by Microsoft Solitaire.
