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- Google Apps
- A collection of online applications and utilities from Google that is offered as a package either free or paid. In 2007, Google combined its e-mail, instant messaging, calendar, word...
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- Podcast: Google & Postini execs discuss specifics of Google's Postini acquistion
- Regarding Google's $625M acquisition of Postini, today's edition of my IT Matters series of podcasts is an interview with: Dave Girourd, vice president and general manager, Google Enterprise Rajan Sheth, product manager, Google Apps Quentin Gallivan, president and CEO, Postini Scott Petry, founder, CTO and exec VP of product development, PostiniIn what appears to...
- Tags: General, Google Apps To-Do List, IT Management, IT Matters Podcast, Office 2.0, Podcasts, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Monkcast #8: Goodbye Zimbra, Hello Google Apps (for RedMonk)
- Although we took a circuitous route to get there, the bulk of this week's discussion had to do with RedMonk's migration off Zimbra to Google Apps (a process that was apparently managed by RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady who, ironically, wasn't present for the podcast). But before we found our way...
- Tags: General, Google Apps To-Do List, IT Management, MonkCast Podcast, Office 2.0, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- The Gears that could 'augur the death of Microsoft'
- In his recent commentary at Slate.com, Harry McCracken notes that Google's Gears could be the technology that 'augurs the death of Microsoft.' Writes McCracken:A week ago, I ceremoniously yanked out my MacBook's Ethernet cable and toggled off the Wi-Fi. Once I was positive the machine was cut off from the...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, Legal, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Google Apps To-Do Item #72: Make OpenOffice.org into a Google Apps' offline client
- If there are two primary objections from the thick client camp when it comes to Web-based applications, then those two are lack of features and the so-called off-line problem (what some refer to as the "airplane problem"). If you need access to a Web server to retrieve Web forms (blank...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Office bloat may not affect the skin on George's nose. But, about that skin in his wallet....
- My colleague George Ou (the official internal David Berlind-whip at CNET Networks) has taken issue with my opinion that Google Office [sic] will compete with Microsoft Office even though Googles CEO says it wont because of the green field opportunity Google has to strike at the 10 percent of the...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Office 2.0, Personal Technology, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Google does the right thing: Cancels weekday outtage of Google Calendar
- Google is listening and making the right moves. Yesterday, the company sent a round of e-mails announcing that Google Apps users could experience outtages as a result of some server maintenance that Google was planning to conduct during the 8AM-9PM PDT on Thursday, April 25th. That timeframe covers a majority...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, Web technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Somewhere on a whiteboard at Google is a list like this
- Somewhere on the Google campus in Mountain View, CA, on some product managers whiteboard, is the to-do list for Google Apps. Although it certain includes specific application improvements, its not necessarily the list of features to make Google Documents a better word processor or Google Spreadsheets a better spreadsheet. ...
- Tags: Web technology, Personal Technology, General, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Did you hear the one about how Google Apps doesn't compete with Microsoft (from Google's CEO)? Guffaw.
- Theres a side to Googles applications -- hencetoforth referred to as Google Apps -- that most bloggers and critics have never seen or bothered to even try to see Ill explain in a moment. Most of them have simply gone to something like Google Docs the word processor or Google...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management, Image Gallery, General, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
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- Dumping my laptop for...a server?
- I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but Apple released a new product last week. The i-something-or-other. The meager media coverage, despite it's generally low-key nature, did give me pause, though. While the iPad (yes, my tongue is now dislodged from my cheek) doesn't hold a lot of...
- Tags: Basement, Laptop Computer, Cloud, iPad, Notebooks, Servers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2010-02-01
- CRM Watchlist 2010 - Part I
- Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. Oh, wait, you probably think that I'm talking about which companies to watch in 2010. Â Nah. I already made those decisions. Â I'm talking about how to deliver the list. Â Should I do it the splitscreen method? Â One big post? Several parts? ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., CRM, SAP 2010, SAP CRM 7.0, Chatter, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-12-28
- Increasing Business Intelligence Options for '10
- Two new developments in the business intelligence world today. Mindtouch announce a mid market integration with cloud data integration company Snap Logic, and Zoho's online reporting and business intelligence application comes out of beta. These developments underscore just how fast...
- Tags: Zoho, Open Source, Mindtouch, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-12-15
- 'Is on-premise ERP obsolete?'
- Is the "Cloud" the way of the future?Interesting video. We are a software implementor for Nonprofits and Trade Associations. Historically we have always sold large SQL based on premise database systems and content managers. We have seen some of the issues discussed in this video, large, monolithic...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Corporate communications, public cloud, SAP AG, ERP, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-12-09
- Reviewing the 2009 CRM Forecast - Not Bad, Not Great
- We're heading into that inevitable  year end, "let's forecast the next year so that we can all be proven ridiculously wrong" state that we pundit types all end up in.  That's only one level less than inebriated or for those of you less articulate, drunk. Getting to the "oops, wrong...
- Tags: Mobile, Platform, Open Source, SAP AG, Vendor Relationship Management, SugarCRM, Tool, CRM, Feedback 3.0, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-12-07
- Efficiency, sustainability, and digital natives accelerate paper's path to digital
- As people spend more time consuming information digitally at home and at work, reliance on paper continues to decrease. But how far are we across the Digital Divide? In 1975, George E. Pake, then head of Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center, predicted that in 1995 his office would be...
- Tags: Word-processing, Sustainability, Whiteboard, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., iWorkers, Productivity, Sheri McLeish
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...
- Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud
- This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- News to know: Adobe; Sergey Brin; Apps.gov; Oracle; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer' Larry Dignan: Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Sergey Brin, OIN, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tablets, Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- News to know: VMWare; White House; Google Books; Skype; Apple vs Android
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware to step up data center automation game Sam Diaz: White House not equipped to hold keys...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, White House, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Digital Cameras, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- The disruptive nature of cloud computing
- Maybe a little overstated don't you think?Let's really think about the amount of disruption from 1-10 on these examples: Gas Lamps to Light bulbs 10, nobody uses gas lamps anymore. Steel Mill example, maybe an 8 or 9. Open Source a 7 because even those that haven't used it benefitted...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
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