Google's Marketplace Spells Trouble for Microsoft
Google set off an enterprise-tastic bomb last night when they announced the opening of Google Marketplace, an online store for business apps. Now, we can’t help but wonder, is Microsoft an impending casualty?
Google Preps to Launch App Store for Google Apps
Is Google getting ready to launch a store for Apps this week? Rumor says so.
Google Acquires DocVerse, Watch Out MS Office Web!
Google’s made yet another purchase. Rumor has it this time they’ve spent somewhere around US$ 25 million on DocVerse (news, site), a San Francisco-based technology startup that allows people to collaborate on Microsoft Office files online.
Google Exec Says Desktops Irrelevant in Three Years Time
"Go mobile young man" is the cry as a top Googler (news, site) echoes his bosses sentiment on the smartphone being the way forward.
Disaster-Proof Google Offers Free Recovery and Backup
Hey enterprise folk, how would you like a tool that relieves all concerns over backups or disaster recovery? Today Google announced such a feature (and it’s free).
Google Sees Stars, Personalizes Search with Fun Feature
This week Google added a new feature to their Search functionality and it is oh-so-handy.
Basically, it’s the stars you use to differentiate messages in Gmail, but now you can use them to favorite search results (just like Tweets!). Simply click the star marker on any search result or map, and the next time you perform a search, your relevant starred items will appear in a list right at the top of your results:
Google Stars in Search
Google says that Stars—which also sync with Google Bookmarks and Google Toolbar—will replace Big G’s SearchWiki service. Never heard of it? Understandable; it seems hardly anyone uses it anyway.
Google Buys Picnik, Photo Editing Enters the Cloud
On Monday Google shelled out more cash for the acquisition of Picnik, a photo-editing website that allows users to edit right inside their browser, rather than purchase or download the necessary software. Are we surprised? Not exactly. Do we think it’s going to contribute to Google’s goal to rule everything Web? Absolutely.
Where are you? Find out with geolocation in Javascript.
Despite the idea of "being in Cyberspace" and the power of the Internet to connect us to people all over the world regardless of our location, we often use a browser to find out about people and services close to us. These might be queries such as finding the opening times of a local store, the time of a train or local expertise. Each time we do this it is often necessary to tell the website where we are, typcially by providing a post code, but what if you don't know the postcode? Fortunately browsers and becoming much more clever, and some can even work out where you are.
Overview of Google authentication methods
There are a number of different authentication methods available for integrating with Google Apps. These include OpenID, OAuth and SAML amongst others. At a first glance, it's not always entirely clear on the differences between them and when you may wish to use one over another. Here's a brief overview which hopefully makes this a bit clearer.
OpenID
Microsoft Compares Their Hosted Service to Google Apps
We know there is increasing competition for cloud-based services. But one of the biggest competitions — between Google (news, site) and Microsoft (news, site) — just got a little more interesting when a Microsoft written Hosted Services Comparison Whitepaper crossed our paths. Do you know which set of cloud-services is better? Microsoft thinks they do.
Story
One of the decisive moments in computing history was when Microsoft was investigated for and found guilty of breaching US rules on anti-competitive behaviour. Microsoft's line in defending itself was that it was not anti-competitive, that this investigation was all down to desperate, failed competitors trying to take their petty revenge by setting the government on the company, and that it should be allowed to “innovate”, untrammelled by those silly governmental authorities that just don't understand all this groovy technology stuff.
On Open Enterprise blog.
Google Includes Facebook Info in Real-Time Search
By now it’s likely that you’ve either heard about or noticed the Facebook results showing up in Google, and, as the first time the search giant has indexed content from the most popular social network evAR, we think it’s kind of a big deal.
Zoho Integrates Productivity Suite with Facebook Connect
That’s right, Zoho (news, site) and Facebook (news, site) sitting in a tree, c-o-n-n(ect)i-n-g.
With already-established support for Google Apps and Yahoo accounts, yesterday Zoho added a social layer by integrating the ability to login through Facebook Connect.
Google Upgrades Ad Management for Publishers
Heads up, publishers, Google wants to help you make more money. Yesterday the search giant launched what they’re calling the next generation of ad-serving technology.
Facebook Buys Talent, Ready to Counter Google Buzz?
And the shopping sprees continue! Facebook (news, site) recently bought an under-the-radar company called Octazen Solutions—its first purchase since acquiring FriendFeed seven months ago.
