Tonight, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for Apps products and services. Here are our notes from the announcement. And of course, the marketplace is launching with a number of pilot partners (50 to be exact). One of those partners happens to be recently launched Socialwok, a product that ads a social […]
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by admin
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Tonight, Google is hosting one of their Campfire One events at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. They’re using the event to launch their new Google Apps Marketplace. This is the app store that business applications can use to reach the more than 25 million people and 2 million business that use Google Apps for […]
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by admin
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Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless you’re one of the big players, the likelihood you’re going to succeed is pretty small. Starting today, Google is taking their roll as one of the big players and […]
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by admin
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Google’s recently announced $25 million acquisition of DocVerse represented one saga of an ongoing war between Google and Microsoft over dominance in the productivity suite place. Today, Israeli enterprise software company Mainsoft is launching a Docverse-like plug-in that may up the ante in the battle. Harmony is launching free plug-ins that bring Google Docs documents […]
Posted on March 9th, 2010 by admin
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A Google representative advises using unique passwords for every Web site. They suggest selecting a phrase and using the first letter of every word in the phrase or some variation of that as a password, ideally with special characters added in to make it more secure. In addition: Passwords should be a mixture of letters, […]
Posted on March 6th, 2010 by admin
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Many of us take the disaster readiness of servers and data centers for granted. But for IT admins from both small and large companies, being prepared for disaster and emergency situations is complicated and expensive issue. Google has made an announcement today for any enterprise users of Google Apps; assuring IT admins that the suite […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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Google will not fully integrate its Chrome Web browser with Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system. The news follows an announcement by the Mozilla Foundation that Firefox 3.6, the next version of the open source browser, would integrate with Windows 7 features such as taskbar thumbnail previews and Jump Lists. However, according to reports […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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With both the Pirate Bay and OpenBitTorrent trackers down at the moment, many people are unable to download torrents unless they enable DHT. Luckily there are a few backup trackers that people can use, and thanks to Google’s free App Engine, everyone can setup a tracker of their own in a few minutes. In their […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is in the early stages of looking at ways to write software that would fully integrate plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid, minimize strain on the grid and help utilities manage vehicle charging load. “We are doing some preliminary work,” said Dan Reicher, Google’s director of Climate Change […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc is partnering with privately held Energy Inc to provide households with free energy management software, bypassing utilities’ smart meters and potentially boosting energy efficiency, the company said on its blog on Monday. Google launched in February a Web tool called PowerMeter, which lets consumers monitor how much electricity they […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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