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Huddle has an app for iPhone web conferencing
Blog If there’s one thing that recent ZDNet reviews of Microsoft Office Web Apps is likely to leave you thinking about, it should be collaboration. I guess not, perhaps that's why Microsoft has tried so hard to do what Google docs never quite seemed to...
[October 1, 2009, 9:31]
WPF loses out to AIR
Blog Now, the conspiracy theorists out there might suggest that Microsoft paid for these apps to be built in order to get the technologies out there, but now the media companies are reacting to customer feedback and ditching them in favour of the flash...
[May 26, 2009, 10:43]
Accenture: Time is ripe to test cloud computing
News Swaminathan added that companies should try to embrace external applications such as those on social-networking sites: "It's a stupid idea to block out mashups and social-networking apps. Pointing to developments in the space, such as Amazon's...
[May 22, 2008, 11:54]
VMware introduces 'operating system for the cloud'
News If you want to make use of all physical cores in the server today, you either have to rewrite the apps or use virtualisation to spread the load inside the physical server. If you compare us to other cloud vendors such as Amazon and Google, they're...
[April 21, 2009, 18:09]
The collaboration conundrum: what’s wrong with REPLY ALL anyway?
Blog After all, LinkedIn uses Huddle as one of it’s chosen apps. I believe this also contains a similar online document hosting service to Google docs too. I’ve been trying to follow the development of a few companies that offer online collaboration...
[November 17, 2008, 7:09]
Apple reveals updates to iPhone, MacBook, OS X
News That is aimed at Chinese users, but it could make its way into English apps as well. It has the same design and pricing as the current iPhone 3G model, but sports a faster processor that Apple says will load most apps somewhere between three to...
[June 9, 2009, 8:58]
Location-based services expected to rocket
News This level of accuracy opens the doors to a "pretty endless list" of location-based apps, according to Strickland — from finding out where the nearest coffee house is, to letting your friends know where you are, to keeping track of your kids...
[February 12, 2008, 10:29]
Windows Live program manager quits 'paralysed' division
News Another wrote that: "If you want to be happy, don't show up at Microsoft to build "cool" Web 2.0 apps (ie giant RSS serving platform), it's a noble thing to do and there are great places to do it, but that just isn't what MS does (well) as much as...
[August 10, 2006, 13:45]
Applications tone up for Beijing Olympics
Blog I hope we do hear good tech stories coming out of the games and with my own particular interest in software application development I hope that many of these tales relate to some cool apps. I had to Google terms like “Symbian Beijing Olympics...
[July 25, 2008, 11:37]
Salesforce.com's application marketplace 'will expand CRM'
News Lykkegaard said: "If Salesforce.com tries to charge significant fees for partners selling through AppExchange, they would risk jeopardising their most important revenue stream — the Salesforce.com platform licence, which is required for...
[February 21, 2006, 13:45]
iPhone 3G: Does it do the business?
News Also, the fact that third-party apps can now be added to the iPhone means all those talented Mac developers will come up with some great new products that make good use of the hardware features. Finally, most of the ME [MobileMe] services are...
[June 11, 2008, 9:31]
Google adds open standard to gadget mashups
News Google has adopted the OAuth web-authentication standard, an open standard for controlling privacy, for its gadget platform. Google announced in June that it was to adopt OAuth for sharing data through its Google Data application programming...
[November 20, 2008, 16:22]
Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5
News Google has been demonstrating its sandboxing technology for making web applications perform at similar levels to those associated with native desktop applications. Google Native Client, still highly experimental, lets browsers run program modules...
[May 29, 2009, 16:29]
Google Docs gets Gadgets
News Google on Wednesday unveiled Gadgets for Spreadsheets in Google Docs, allowing people to create graphical representations of data in spreadsheets and publish them on websites. Google has put up a gallery of specialty gadgets to choose from.
[March 20, 2008, 12:51]
Google links to Salesforce.com cloud
News Google and Salesforce.com have introduced a link between the two companies' cloud-computing services, to allow developers to create web applications by drawing upon both platforms. Force.com for Google App Engine, announced at the Cloudforce...
[December 8, 2008, 16:11]
Apple announces iPhone OS updates
Blog Free apps will however not offer in-app purchase, so the try-and-buy business model is not being enabled. Accessories developers will also be able to write apps for the iPhone that talk to their hardware.
[March 17, 2009, 16:58]
Inside the BlackBerry app store
News What do you mean when you say you won't allow apps that use 'excessive bandwidth'? A: We have the ability today for people to write apps for our platform, and we put no restrictions on when where or how they can distribute those apps — it could be...
[January 27, 2009, 16:21]
Mundie: How Windows will survive in the cloud
News The big question is: what will be the killer apps driving demand? It's the killer apps people are choosing and that will be true in the next generation [of computing]," said Mundie. Google and other competitors clearly see web-based applications as...
[September 26, 2008, 11:26]
Very good..
Talkback This is a step in the right direction for google they have an awful lot of services across the board but they still need to unify a great deal more of things, there igoogle pages are still some what cumbersome and after taking ownership of you...
[August 18, 2009, 18:03]
Is Microsoft Seriouse?
Talkback Not that I see Google competing strongly with Microsoft Office, but when Microsoft thinks that constant upgrades to software in a software as a service SaaS environment is a bad idea, then someone has to say something!
[October 4, 2007, 15:00]
