Topic: Google Docs

The Most Innovative Companies in Web 2.0

You read our Fast Company 50. Now learn about the companies within specific industries that are doing both creative and ground-breaking work. Here we present the top ten in Web 2.0.READ»

A Week Inside T-Mobile's G1

iPhone killer? Probably not. Game changer? No doubt about it. Here's how I fell in love with T-Mobile's G1 after only one week. Well, sort of.READ»

• How Innovation Led HTC to the Dream

Why You'll Care About Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft's just previewed the Office 2010 productivity suite. It seems MS is responding to the challenge of Google Docs with a full browser-based system that expands on Office 2007.READ»

The Solution to Your Resumé Nightmare

Every idea has its time, and with the unemployment rate rising, JobSpice is right on schedule. Think of it as Google Docs for your resumé: it's an online service that makes creating and distributing resumes easy, without the hassle ...READ»

Microsoft Office 2010 Moves to the Cloud

When Canadian company i4i sued Microsoft this past August, watchdogs in the software community predicted that the move would encourage Microsoft to bring up their plans for a move to cloud computing much earlier than planned – and it looks like they were right. In addition to the announcements of a new and improved version of Internet Explorer and a major update of the Silverlight runtime platform at this week’s Microsoft at the…READ»

Microsoft vs. Google: A 2,400-Year-Old Move

This week several seemingly unrelated news articles are actually talking about the same thing: a fundamental pattern of competition that reveals the underpinnings between Google’s and Microsoft’s emerging battle in online ...READ»

Head in the Clouds

What does Amazon nuking Kindle copies of 1984 tell us about cloud computing? Unfortunately, quite a bit.READ»

The Best of Google Labs

Some of Google Labs' cool e-tools that aren't quite ready for prime time.READ»

2006 Review of Business Innovation, Digital Media and Trends

Will Paris Hilton's new cosmetics line survive her bad girl image? Will the Zune be a threat to the iPod? These were just a few of this year's business questions to be answered. Here we review ten business innovations, digital media products, and trends from 2006.READ»

Steve Ballmer’s Cloud Computing Ambitions for Microsoft

Inside Steve Ballmer’s push into Web services.READ»

• Young Flakenstein

Letter from the Editor

Inspiration and PerspirationREAD»

From the Editor of Fast Company: Crude Ideas

What kind of work is most valuable? At this magazine, we tend to talk about ideas and inspiration and management techniques, but less often about the dirty work of getting the job done. Which is why this issue's feature about ...READ»

The Once and Never King

The Linux desktop market is about eight years behind scheduleREAD»

Google Book Search Courts Controversy Again

In 1995 Bill Gates publicly remarked that Microsoft had been caught napping at the rise of the Internet. Over the next few years the company frantically played catch up -- bundling its Internet Explorer browser with the Windows ...READ»

Is Your Startup a Nice to Have or Must Have?

With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and ...READ»

Google Scripts Help Automate Apps, Premier Edition Only

Automation is the dream of every work-laden computer user, and scripting languages can make those dreams come true. Now Google is releasing its own scripting language for its online apps called Google Apps Script. It seems mostly ...READ»

An Exclusive Peek at Google's Breakthrough Ideas to Restore Its Waning Glory

With everything from Bing to Twitter trying to steal Google's thunder, people can't stop talking about the search giant's innovation slump. Here's an exclusive peek at Google's arsenal of breakthrough ideas to restore the glory.READ»

Did Chrome OS Go Public to Beat Microsoft's News? Nope

Google's Chrome OS is either neat or irrelevant, depending on how you think--but the timing is undeniably interesting. It's more than a year away, so why'd Google go to press now? One theory is to beat Microsoft. This idea's being ...READ»

Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines

Microsoft has once again declared its intention to battle Google for the search engine market. The company has decided to try and improve on its search style and capabilities, but these efforts have gone on for the last couple of ...READ»

Mozilla's Raindrop: Chasing Google's Wave, or Damping Digital Noise?

Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser, just dropped a preview of an experimental project that will integrate IM, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more into one user experience. It's called Raindrop, and it sounds a heck of a lot ...READ»

Google Chrome Innovates SPDY from HTTP: 55% Faster

SPDY aims to revolutionize the web by creating a faster browsing experience. In fact, the Google Chromium blog says the SPDY protocol is 2x as fast as HTTP in its test labs. The load speed results of the top 25 websites were 55% faster on SPDY than HTTP. Interestingly, Google is making the SPDY / HTTP a Chrome-only enhancement and the...READ»

Google I/O: The Next Android OS--Google Donut, Looks Tasty

Today marks the end of Google's I/O developer conference. Just days shy of Apple's own WWDC, which kicks off next week, Google took the opportunity to tell us two things: Android 2 is going to be killer, and Google will pay you ...READ»