Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:59 PM/EST
There's a popular argument circulating that Google Apps isn't good enough for enterprises, that the SAAS collaboration software suite isn't battle tested enough. We need hybrid solutions. We need cloud and on-premises options right now. As years and decades pass us by, all of the current weak points of the cloud will be vastly improved.
Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:17 AM/EST
How exactly is it in Microsoft's best interest to help Google perfect a product designed to tempt Outlook users to use Gmail? Microsoft's readiness to help Google fix a sync tool designed to crack Microsoft's Office fortress shows that the software giant isn't that scared at all.
Monday, March 16, 2009 5:50 PM/EST
Fellow GARDers*, it is said that the gears of the gods grind slowly, which means that while they may take their sweet time, they inexorably get wherever they intend. * GARD=Google Attention and Reaction District Google is dead serious about...
Monday, March 16, 2009 10:47 AM/EST
Hi, Some of you may remember me from my days writing for the E-Piphanies blog now so ably managed by Stephen Wellman and Jack Margo. I will now be following in the footsteps of the inestimable Clint Boulton, and I...
Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:55 AM/EST
Unique visitors for Google's Gmail Web mail application grew 43 percent in 2008 to 29.6 million. Taking the Yahoo Open Strategy plan to open up Yahoo apps, the future of Yahoo Mail looks promising, but will Bartz stay this course or scrap it?
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:54 PM/EST
Google today tweaked its servers to make its Google Maps for Mobile app more intuitive by removing ambiguity around local business searches. The improvement is incremental, but for the class of people who hold mobile up as the next great Web surfing frontier, it might not be so trivial.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:57 PM/EST
Apple's iWork.com joins Google Docs, some Zoho apps, Microsoft Office Live Workspace and other offerings as the latest suite of messaging and collaboration applications running in the cloud. But rather than positioning this tool as an aggressive new entry to the hosted applications space, Apple says iWork.com is more about the ability to share desktop documents created in iWork '09 via the Internet.
Monday, December 22, 2008 9:19 AM/EST
Gadgetization, such as this new Google Docs Gadget for Google Desktop, is the future of Web apps. The gadget lets users search and open their Google documents right from their desktop, and includes a tool for drag-and-drop uploading documents to convert them to Google Docs.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:33 AM/EST
Gmail Labs has whipped up another interesting feature in the name of efficiency, letting users turn an e-mail into a Google Docs file with one click. In the wake of voice and video chat, canned responses, SMS text chat and others tools, call this Gmail's evolution by a thousand innovations.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:12 PM/EST
Test SMS text messaging in Gmail and tell me what you think.
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