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| 111 Internet Software Resources |
| 70% of Microsoft cloud 'wins' are new customers |
| Microsoft COO Kevin Turner made the bold statement this morning during the company's annual FInancial Analyst Meeting. "One of the most exciting things about our cloud strategy is that 70 percent of the wins in the cloud that we had in Q4, ladies and gentlemen, were new Microsoft customers," Tuner told financial analysts. "Yeah, new Microsoft customers. |
| View Source | July 29, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Abiquo tackles next gen cloud management |
| One Barcelona, Spain company is launching a US office and a new generation of its open source cloud management software. |
| View Source | March 23, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Advice for Evaluating CRM Cloud Platforms |
| A day doesn't go by without headlines about cloud computing, virtualization, and the next computing platform. No doubt these computing models are important, but when it comes to CRM - what's important about cloud computing? And how should platforms be evaluated for CRM applications? |
| View Source | April 30, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Amazon Allows Companies to Reserve Databases in Its Cloud |
| Amazon Web Services has introduced Reserved Database Instances, a new way to pay for its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Monday. |
| View Source | August 17, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Apple trying to store your video in the cloud |
| The company's representatives have recently spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company's servers, two people familiar with the discussions told CNET. |
| View Source | March 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Can Microsoft beat Google in the battle to rule cloud computing? |
| Microsoft made a major leap skywards this week with the release of a cloud-based version of its Office software to businesses called Office Web Apps. |
| View Source | May 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Citrix talks portability within the cloud at Interop (Video) |
| At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, panelists discuss the issue of portability within the cloud. Simon Crosby of Citrix says nobody is served by proprietary stacks and touts the open virtualization format. Randy Rowland of Terremark adds that the biggest challenge in moving workloads between clouds is networking. |
| View Source | April 30, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Cloud Application Management Sees New Players |
| Eucalyptus System teams with GroundWork Open Source to go better pursue the growing market for cloud app monitoring and management. |
| View Source | April 8, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Cloud computing catches fancy of companies looking to lower costs |
| Cloud computing used to be one of those wispy technical phrases that was hard to define. Was it a new name for outsourcing? A different kind of computer network? Or just marketing nonsense? |
| View Source | May 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Cloud Computing Makes It Easier For Criminals To Get Busted |
| The great thing about cloud computing is that no matter where you are, your files are just there. It turns out they're just there for law enforcement, too, as two Google Docs-using spammers recently found out. |
| View Source | April 17, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Clouds Hang Over Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010 Launch |
| Microsoft has launched the newest versions of its Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint software packages. |
| View Source | May 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Cloud.com launched as open source IaaS provider |
| Cloud.com was officially launched today as an open source cloud provider. |
| View Source | May 4, 2010 | Provides Information |
| 'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names |
| The technology industry has many virtues. creativity in naming is not always one of them. |
| View Source | March 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Clouds helping start-ups grow, but lack enterprise capability, investors say |
| Cloud computing is making it easier for start-ups to develop new technology, but once companies grow beyond a certain size they may find current cloud technologies do not meet their requirements, tech investors said during Interop in Las Vegas this week. |
| View Source | April 28, 2010 | Provides Information |
| CloudZap Moves Docs From to the Cloud |
| CloudZap ($60, 30-day free trial) allows for easily sending documents to services such as Box.net, Google Docs or Microsoft SharePoint when you print or scan a file. It can send to multiple such services at once, and also zap files off to the services via Windows Explorer. |
| View Source | July 8, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Collaborate in Real-Time with Google Docs |
| Google docs provides small and medium businesses with a cost-effective, Web-based office productivity platform. Aside from the ability to create, store, and work with documents from anywhere in the world with a live Internet connection, Google Docs also enables teams, peers, and partners to collaborate online in real-time on the same file. |
| View Source | July 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Could you be productive without offline document access? |
| When Google announced last month that it was making more functionality available to Google Docs users, company officials mentioned in passing that offline access to its productivity suite would be suspended, starting May 3. |
| View Source | May 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Dell mainstreams cloud servers |
| For the past several years, server and PC maker Dell has built a sizeable and mostly hidden business selling custom-made servers to elite data center customers facing power, cooling, and compute capacity issues that its regular SMB and enterprise customers don't have to cope with. But as hyperscale computing - database clustering and analytics, big data-crunching using Hadoop and MapReduce, and more traditional technical supercomputing - goes more mainstream, Dell needs to commercialize its cloud server business. |
| View Source | March 24, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Docs can be friendly too. |
| Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook lets you work from just about anywhere with the familiar Office experience. |
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| Drag-and-drop Gmail: another feature beefs up Google Apps offering |
| As much as I dislike sending and receiving e-mail attachments, it sometimes goes with the territory. So it’s nice that Google rolled out an update for Gmail users today - a drag-and-drop feature that eliminates the need to search through folders to add the right files to e-mail. |
| View Source | April 15, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Eucalyptus updates open source cloud platform |
| Two months after releasing version 2 of the enterprise edition of its open-source cloud software, Eucalyptus Systems has posted a new version of the software's base platform, the company announced on Wednesday. |
| View Source | August 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Five Ways the New Hotmail Beats Gmail |
| Integration with social networks, better mail handling, and better mail threading make Hotmail the clear leader among Web-based mail service. |
| View Source | May 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| FolderShare |
| Keep important files at your fingertips - anywhere. All file changes are automatically synchronized between linked computers, so you are always accessing the latest documents, photos, and files. |
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| Geeks Guide 2 Cloud Computing |
| Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform is written for aspiring Windows Azure programmers by Roger Jennings, author of over 30 books on Microsoft technologies. It offers an excellent overview of cloud computing and provides a structured tutorial format that guides you through Jennings’ approach for programming Windows Azure Storage Services and web, worker, and .NET Services applications. |
| View Source | March 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Getting the most out of Gmail |
| Multiple accounts in one inbox, online backups and more |
| View Source | June 23, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Gmail Improves: Use an E-Mail Client |
| Everybody loves Gmail, right? Wrong. A friend of mine is so fed up with its "threaded" conversation view, he's ready to jump ship for Hotmail, Yahoo, or another service. |
| View Source | June 1, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Adds Buzz to Mobile Gmail, Sort of |
| Google is integrating its social networking service Buzz into the Web-based version of Gmail for the iPhone and Android phones, but there's no word on an official dedicated Buzz app for either of the popular mobile platforms. |
| View Source | April 7, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google adds Safari support for fancy Gmail features |
| Devoted Safari fans, whether on the Mac or PC, never enjoy feeling jealous of their Chrome- and Firefox-using brethren. Thus, Safari aficionados everywhere are sure to be delighted by Google’s announcement on Monday that Gmail now offers support for its fanciest HTML5 features in Apple’s Web browser, too. |
| View Source | July 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Apps store seeks cloud collaboration boost |
| Google's new Apps Marketplace could give a significant boost to Web-based communication and collaboration software for businesses by creating a wide-ranging yet integrated virtual suite of heterogeneous cloud applications. |
| View Source | March 10, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google auto-alerts Gmailers to suspicious log-ins |
| Google has updated Gmail with new code designed to alert you when it suspects your account has been compromised. This alert may be triggered, for instance, when a login appears to come from one country just a few hours after a login from another country. |
| View Source | March 24, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google buys collaborative MS Office start-up |
| Does cloud computing still need desktop productivity apps? |
| View Source | March 8, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google buys start-up adept at Microsoft Office files |
| Google on Friday said it has bought start-up DocVerse in a move that escalates the Internet giant's battle with Microsoft in the arena of applications being offered online as services. |
| View Source | March 5, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google coding tool advances cloud computing |
| Google has released a programming tool to help move its Native Client project--and more broadly, its cloud-computing ambitions--from abstract idea to practical reality. |
| View Source | May 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Docs Adds Translation Feature |
| Google Docs has just added a couple of cool new features: translation and the ability to remove smartquotes in documents (coming soon). |
| View Source | July 27, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Docs for the lazy: Harmony Outlook add-on |
| The Google Docs Web-based productivity suite blossomed thanks to its virtue of efficiency. We recently got to know a tool that layers on the convenience by giving you ways to manage Google Docs from a desktop app you already use--your Outlook in-box. By installing the free Harmony for Google Docs beta Outlook add-on, your Google Docs show up in a sidebar, from which they can be opened and edited right in Outlook's reading pane. Clicking the Harmony button in the navigation ribbon surfaces your Google Docs in new messages as well. |
| View Source | April 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google: Docs is key to long-term workplace changes |
| Firm bets businesses will use Google Docs to get more social; analysts not so sure |
| View Source | May 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Docs makes it easier to share--or not |
| Google has rolled out out a few new tweaks to its Google Docs platform to give people greater control over how to share and collaborate on documents with their colleagues. |
| View Source | June 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google: Don't upgrade Office, add Docs |
| On the eve of the business launch of Office 2010, Google is arguing that there is a better way for businesses to upgrade their productivity suite. |
| View Source | May 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google gives Picasa 3.8 a cloud connection |
| Google issued Picasa 3.8 on Tuesday, hybridizing the desktop software by building in elements of its cloud-computing service for photo editing. |
| View Source | August 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Gmail search now reaches into Google Docs |
| Google is broadening the reach of Gmail Search with the help of a Labs tool that allows users to find e-mails and documents, the company announced on Wednesday. |
| View Source | August 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google suggests upgrading to Google Docs instead of Office 2010 |
| Google, quite obviously, would prefer it if you didn’t upgrade to the just out of beta Microsoft Office 2010. Instead, enterprise customers are encouraged to carry out an upgrade to Google Docs. |
| View Source | May 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Tightens Up Docs for the Enterprise |
| Secure collaboration through the cloud is the next great growth vein for online application and security vendors so Google is improving the access controls for its popular Google Docs suite. |
| View Source | June 21, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Unveils New Cloud Data Storage for Developers |
| The word is that Google will be taking advantage of the Google I/O conference--Google's largest developer event of 2010--to unveil Google Storage for Developers. The cloud-based data storage service pits Google against similar services such as Amazon's S3, but with a specific focus on developers. |
| View Source | May 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Chrome OS |
| Acer Chrome OS devices at Computex on June 1st |
| VentureBeat has heard from several sources that Acer intends to unveil its first Google Chrome OS devices at the Computex Taipai show running June 1-5. |
| View Source | May 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Acer to Launch Chrome OS Devices at Last? |
| Remember Chrome OS, Google's stripped-to-the-browser operating system? It's reportedly ready for prime time, with Chrome OS devices from Acer leading the way. |
| View Source | May 14, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Chrome OS Coming Along Nicely, With Less-Cluttered Look |
| Google's adapted the aesthetics of Chrome OS slightly, making it even less-cluttered and easier-looking to use, as some screengrabs found in the Chromium OS code page show. |
| View Source | June 24, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Chrome OS to Achieve Windows Support through "Chromoting" |
| Google is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the Chrome OS--expected to hit the streets as a netbook operating system before the holidays. A new feature dubbed "chromoting" hopes to bridge the divide between Chrome and Windows, but the sketchy details thus far don't make it sound all that compelling. |
| View Source | June 14, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Chrome OS to Include Remote Desktop-like Functionality |
| We don't get too many details when it comes to Google's Chrome OS, but this tiny little tidbit dug up by The Register is certainly quite interesting. It looks as if Google is working on implementing remote desktop-like functionality into Chrome OS so |
| View Source | June 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Chrome OS to run legacy PC applications remotely using Chromoting |
| Google Chrome OS will be with us before the end of 2010. You will be able to buy a new netbook running it instead of Windows. But what if you are worried about being able to use some apps that currently run on Windows after the switch? Apparently Google has you covered with something being referred to as Chromoting. |
| View Source | June 10, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Chrome Web Store – So That’s How They’ll Spice-Up Chrome OS! |
| The last time I considered Chrome OS I called it a dumb OS. Too simple. Nothing Unique. OK, you’ll never need to update those web-based apps (although you can expect downtime when apps are upgraded) but is that the compelling reason to use Chrome OS? |
| View Source | May 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Dell in Talks Over Google Chrome OS, Report Says |
| Talks are under way between Google and Dell to bring Chrome OS, the search giant's cloud-centric operating system, to Dell's computer lineup, according to a Dell executive. |
| View Source | June 21, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Does the Chrome OS LiveCD threaten your installed OS? |
| LiveCD operating systems are very convenient and sometimes extremely useful. They are useful not only to us, the users, but also as a marketing tool of sorts for the people who produce and distribute the OS, because they give people a way to try out a new operating system, without threatening their currently installed OSes. |
| View Source | April 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Evaluating Google Chrome on the Mac |
| The browser wars are back, and this time Google is making it interesting. Google Chrome is a new addition to the browser world, but it is based on the same rendering engine as Safari: WebKit. |
| View Source | August 9, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Chrome OS printing to be handled in the cloud |
| In a post on the Chromium Blog yesterday Mike Jazayeri, Group Product Manager, has explained how Google intend to handle printing in Chrome OS. |
| View Source | April 16, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Chrome’s UI Designer Discusses Shortcuts, Productivity, and the Future of Chrome OS |
| Google's Chrome browser is proving increasingly popular, while work continues on the Chrome OS project to build a minimal, browser-based interface for netbooks. Lifehacker spoke with Chrome user interface design team developer Glen Murphy - an Aussie now working at Google HQ in California - to discuss the future directions Chrome and Chrome OS will take, why the Chrome Web Store is so important, and the relative important of touch screens and keyboard shortcuts. |
| View Source | May 26, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google hugs Adobe harder with Chrome-PDF merge |
| After announcing plans to integrate Adobe Flash with its Chrome browser, Google is now integrating a PDF reader as well. |
| View Source | June 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google to Release Chrome OS in Fourth Quarter |
| Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday. |
| View Source | June 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google's Schmidt pitches Chrome OS |
| Browser-obsessed netbooks running Google's Chrome operating system will be the freshest thing to hit computing in two decades, Eric Schmidt claims. |
| View Source | April 20, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft projects aim to rival Chrome OS |
| Gazelle and Menlo first steps towards a modern browser/OS |
| View Source | May 28, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Parallels Desktop update adds support for Chrome OS |
| Parallels, whose Desktop offering lets you run a variety of operating systems without ever having to leave Mac OS X, has updated Parallels Desktop 5.0 to include support for Google’s Chrome OS. |
| View Source | March 9, 2010 | Provides Information |
| What Chrome OS Needs: Levity |
| Hey, Google -- lure people to a new operating system by throwing in a couple games. |
| View Source | June 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Will the Chromium OS remain open source? |
| In the wake of Google’s purchase of BumpTop, with its unique user interface, and BumpTop’s decision to close down its work on Windows and the Mac OS, the question needs to be asked. |
| View Source | May 4, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Google Docs Gets Major Collaboration Upgrade |
| Google Docs has gotten a major overhaul, with improvements that beef up collaboration across the board. That means real-time, character-by-character changes for up to 50 collaborators. And it's not just for the document editor. |
| View Source | April 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google Docs Now Syncing with Outlook |
| If you use Google Docs and Microsoft Office, you'll appreciate the new Outlook sidebar from Mainsoft. Called Harmony, and currently in beta, the sidebar lets you share, e-mail, download, upload, and edit your Google Docs right from your desktop using Outlook 2007. |
| View Source | March 9, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Google: Gmail is going to get faster |
| Gmail is already chosen by over 100 million people as their e-mail client, and the service is generally seen as the best web-based e-mail solution out there. But however much you love Gmail, apparently it can be a bit slow if you are a power user. |
| View Source | March 15, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Hands-on: WordPress 3.0 adds better customization and multisite networks |
| The new version of WordPress includes useful new features for both single-site bloggers and organizational admins. |
| View Source | June 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| High-ranking Chrome engineer heads to Facebook |
| The Google-to-Facebook talent shift has taken a new step: Matthew Papakipos, an engineering director involved with many of Google's high-profile efforts to reshape browsers and the Web into a more powerful foundation for applications. |
| View Source | June 28, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Hotmail still not working? Use Chrome to fix it, says MS |
| Microsoft has advised Hotmail users struggling to access their email accounts to surf via Google’s Chrome browser in order to successfully connect to the recently overhauled service. |
| View Source | August 10, 2010 | Provides Information |
| How Much Can Google Make Off Apps? |
| A billion dollars within four years, according to one company executive. |
| View Source | May 26, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| IBM Executive Denies Open-source Sellout |
| IBM will not use its open-source patents in any potential legal actions it may bring against TurboHercules, an IBM company executive seemingly asserted on Wednesday. |
| View Source | April 8, 2010 | Provides Information |
| iCloud |
| is the world’s first free online computer |
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| Is Microsoft Docs really a 'Google Docs killer' and four other questions (and answers) |
| Microsoft unveiled today a beta version of Microsoft Docs, its Office Web Apps technology tailored for the Facebook platform at the Facebook f8 conference on April 21. The announcement spurred a lot of questions — by me and others. Here are five questions I asked Microsoft about today’s announcement, and five answers I received via a corporate spokesperson. |
| View Source | April 21, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Is SaaS a friend or foe of open source? |
| Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia is warning that Software as a Service is becoming a threat to open source and that clouds could create the same vendor lock-in customers sought to avoid with open source. |
| View Source | March 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Man Claims 84 Percent Ownership of Facebook |
| A New York man has filed suit against Facebook claiming he owns 84 percent of the world's largest social network. Paul D. Ceglia, the man behind the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, claims Facebook owes him damages relating to a 2003 contract between Ceglia and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The purported contract asked Ceglia to develop and design a Website "similar to a live functioning yearbook with the working title of 'The Face Book,'" according to the Wall Street Journal. |
| View Source | July 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Memeo Automates Google Docs Syncing with Connect 2.0 |
| Memeo unveiled a major update to Memeo Connect today with the launch of the Memeo Connect 2.0 beta. Memeo Connect 2.0 adds features and functionality to make Google Docs more productive and enterprise ready, including Google GDrive--a concept that Google customers have been demanding since Google Docs was first introduced. |
| View Source | June 16, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Memeo Connect 2.0 boosts Google Docs integration |
| Memeo unveiled a beta in June of Memeo Connect 2.0, its greatly enhanced Google Docs client for Mac and PC designed for SMBs and enterprises. On Wednesday, the company took this version out of beta and also released a surprise Memeo Connect Reader client for iPhone to complements its iPad version. |
| View Source | August 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft cracks open Windows cloud management service |
| It's not a Windows 7 upgrade sweetener. Really |
| View Source | April 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft morris dancers upset Soho with Hotmail relaunch |
| Office drones around Soho's Golden Square have complained to the council about the racket caused by Microsoft's ongoing attempt to attract more users to Hotmail through the medium of dance. |
| View Source | May 26, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft Office 2010 Rocks Desktop, Fizzles Online |
| Microsoft's suite upgrade is solid, but the accompanying Web Apps are surprisingly puny. |
| View Source | May 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft Office, Google Apps Ready for a Business Brawl |
| In the business battle to rule the enterprise office suite of the future, Microsoft and Google both must overcome significant problems. |
| View Source | May 12, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft Office Web Apps Review |
| Microsoft Office 2010 is taking on Google Docs with the introduction of the Office Web Apps, browser-based online versions of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint. Are the Office Web Apps ready to topple their cloud competitors, or is this more Microsoft hypeware? We break it down in this review. |
| View Source | June 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft sneak peeks freshened comms server |
| Microsoft has announced that the next incarnation of its unified communications software - code-named Communication Server 14 - will be available in the second half of the year. Earlier company roadmaps indicated this would be the case. |
| View Source | March 24, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft unplugs middling Windows server |
| Microsoft will halt development of its mid-market oriented Windows Essential Business Server software bundle, as the company bets on "cloud computing" rather than lump licensing to woo penny-pinching IT markets. |
| View Source | March 5, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft Wants to Lead Cloud Privacy Charge |
| The rise of cloud-based computing options has everyone scrambling to stake their claim. Microsoft, for now, says it wants to be a leader in protecting people and their data's privacy. |
| View Source | June 17, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft Word Web App vs. Google Docs |
| Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps. However, the biggest news isn't that you can use these Web apps -- many have been in beta for a while now -- rather, it's Microsoft's introduction of an online version of its popular software program Word, a word processing program. |
| View Source | June 8, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Microsoft’s fix for Hotmail woes: Google Chrome |
| If you’ve been experiencing difficulties accessing your Hotmail account, maybe you oughta switch to Google Chrome. That’s kinda what Microsoft has advised to its disgruntled users who continue reporting a string of issues that spoiled a recent Hotmail overhaul. |
| View Source | August 11, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| New AOL Mail Is Coming Soon |
| AOL is conducting internal tests on a new version of Aol Mail, two sources tell us. |
| View Source | July 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Rackspace goes open source with cloud platform |
| Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds. |
| View Source | July 19, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Ranking Microsoft's Office 2010 Rivals |
| While Google Apps may not be a knockout threat to Microsoft's enterprise business this year, a cloud apps battle continues to brew between the two companies. Google and Microsoft are the forerunners in this competition, but other rivalsare nipping on their heels. |
| View Source | May 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Red Hat's CEO: Clouds Can Become the Mother of All Lock-ins |
| Cloud architecture has to be defined in a way that allows applications to move around, or clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins, warned Red Hat's CEO James Whitehurst. |
| View Source | June 2, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 |
| HTML5, with its promises of plug-in free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, would seem to spell the end of proprietary RIA (rich Internet application) platforms. |
| View Source | August 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| RightNow Tries to Change SaaS Contract, Pricing Game |
| CRM vendor RightNow announced a new SaaS (software as a service) pricing and licensing model on Thursday that it says provides customers with fairer, clearer deals. The company also issued a "Cloud Challenge" to competitors, urging them to adopt similar principles. |
| View Source | March 4, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| SaaS Model Reshaping Traditional Data Centers |
| Top IT executives discuss how the software-as-a-service model has upended the traditional approach to data-center management, placing increasing importance to interoperability throughout the stack. |
| View Source | April 22, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Spreadsheet cloud nirvana: Zoho supports 1 million cells, handily tops Google Apps |
| Calling people with spreadsheet fetishes (you know who you are). Zoho launched its Sheet 2.0 with support for 1 million cells per workbook, 65,536 rows and 256 columns. |
| View Source | August 31, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Steve Jobs: mystery patent pool to attack Ogg Theora |
| Email roasts 'open source' codecs |
| View Source | April 30, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Stream Music From Google Docs With Cloud Music |
| With the advent of the smartphones, streaming media has reached new potential. No longer do you have to worry about whether or not you copied that newest album to your iPod: as long as you've got a wireless connection, you can probably use an app to play it back right from your home computer. |
| View Source | July 27, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Text Chat Operators | Bulk SMS Messaging Services | Chat Room Help |
| Text chat operators offers Live text chat services, SMS messaging services Email processing, Live website chat support, Chat Room Help and SE0 service. |
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| Test-drive Google Docs without signing up |
| Haven’t switched to Google Docs yet because you lack a Google account? No problem, you can sample the search firm’s cloud Office without signing up, even collaborate with colleagues in real-time. |
| View Source | June 10, 2010 | Provides Information |
| TextFlow brings collaboration, versioning to Google Apps |
| In March, Google introduced a Marketplace for Google Apps, opening its doors to a world of apps for its Web-based Office competitor. A slew of apps and services, such as FreshBooks and TripIt, have already signed up. On Tuesday, Nordic River released TextFlow, its powerful collaboration and versioning app, for Google Apps users. |
| View Source | May 18, 2010 | Provides Information |
| The Grill: Sridhar Vembu |
| This cloud pioneer debunks the myths of traditional education. |
| View Source | August 9, 2010 | Provides Information |
| The intersection of open source and cloud computing |
| Cloud computing and open-source software have been intertwined since the early days of the cloud. Vendors such as Amazon.com, SugarCRM, Rackspace, and many, many others, utilized open-source choices for everything from virtualization to data stores to user interfaces. |
| View Source | June 28, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Tucows |
| Dive into Tucows-tested and rated Internet software. All manner of editors, Internet utilities, viewers, Web-design programs and browser tools are at hand. |
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| Turkish ISPs start blocking Google services on government order |
| It is being reported that ISPs in Turkey have started blocking several popular Google services. |
| View Source | June 4, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Use Google to convert Office doc to PDF |
| Hints reader nkal reports that he was recently trying to print a .DOCX document—which he’d created at work using from Word 2008—on his home printer. Unfortunately, his home Mac had a much older version of Office, and it couldn’t open the .DOCX format. |
| View Source | April 13, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| Why I Don't Use Google Docs |
| When you need to collaborate with others on a project that involves word processing, spreadsheets, and/or presentations, Google Docs is an excellent solution: the ability to work with others in real time is something that's hard, if not impossible, to replicate in any desktop program. |
| View Source | March 8, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Wikipedia to Unlock Frequently Vandalized Pages |
| Online encyclopedia announces changes to controversial control practices. |
| View Source | June 16, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Will customers demand open clouds? |
| The old computing vision of client and server is being replaced by one of device and cloud. |
| View Source | March 17, 2010 | Provides Information |
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| YouTube to turn profit this year: NY Times |
| Google-owned videosharing website YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year on revenue of 450 million dollars, The New York Times reported Friday. |
| View Source | September 3, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Z |
| Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu: Aiming for 'contextual super apps' |
| Zoho has been an interesting company to me for sometime. The company’s office productivity products are solid—arguably better than Google Apps—and Zoho is an enterprise player with CRM apps and other software that would appeal to small and mid-sized businesses. |
| View Source | April 25, 2010 | Provides Information |
| Zoho CRM Professional Edition |
| Zoho is a straightforward on-demand CRM that lacks the flash, scalability, and inspired design of its major competitors, but it also gets the job done well and on the cheap. |
| View Source | June 14, 2010 | Provides Information |
| ZOHO Office Suite |
| Online Office Tools, Productivity Applications and more |
| View Source | | Provides a Service |