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Work Smart 2: Is Google Apps for Business For You?

[video_twistage 1] Nowadays, moving your businesses' IT solution to a hosted cloud-based service--like Google Apps for business--is all the rage. But does it make sense for your (very) small business? In this week's episode, sole ...READ»

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Google Docs Coming to iPad in "the Next Few Weeks" to Slap iWork Around

Google very casually announced today that iPad-compatible versions of Google Docs will be heading to Android and iPad soon. Could Docs upstage Apple's own iWork and make the iPad a true work machine?READ»

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Google Introduces Government-Approved Secure "Apps for Government" Suite

Google's new Apps for Government are the first cloud-based tools to receive certification from the Federal Information Security Management Act. Google says this suite will be both cheaper and more efficient than existing tools.READ»

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Adobe vs. Apple: 3-D Powers for Flash, Rich Web Apps in HTML5

The battle between Adobe's Flash tech and Apple's push for clever HTML5 code continues: Adobe's touting next-gen 3-D capabilities, and Apple's heading toward sophisticated multitouch Web apps through SproutCore coding. Who'll win? ...READ»

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Google News Revamped: This Is Your News, Personalized and Localized

Google News saw a major redesign today, not just in its look but in its core philosophy. Google's really taking the maxim that "all news is local" to heart.READ»

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Work Smart: Best Telecommuting Tools

Just because you're not physically located in the office doesn't mean you can't be a present, productive, member of your team. These days, working remotely is easier, cheaper, and more necessary than ever. More companies allow ...READ»

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Switch: Shrink the Change With One-Minute Praisings

[video_twistage 1 protect]What do you dread at work? Maybe it’s filling out expense reports. Making a cold call to a new lead. Giving a performance review to your employee Chester, who’s prone to tearing up at the first hint of ...READ»

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Enterprise Users Are People Too: Google Apps Expanded to Include Picasa, Blogger, Reader, and More

Google's enterprise suite of software, Google Apps, is great, offering a cheaper, cleaner, cloud-based change from traditional products like Microsoft Office. And now they're adding even more Google services to the mix.READ»

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Yahoo Slams Google in New, Ill-Conceived Ads

Yahoo's new series of ads slams Google for being just a search engine. The only problem? Everyone on the planet knows that Google isn't just a search engine.READ»

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Google Streamlines, Targets Search: Its Biggest Change in Years

Google Search has just undergone a major change, both aesthetic and functional, and I've got to say, I like it. It'll make the power of Google Search easier to understand for neophytes, but shouldn't take anything away from power users.READ»

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Work Smart: 3 Apps for Syncing Home and Office

You're at home and want to edit a file that's on your work computer. You're on the family PC and want to see a photo you saved on your laptop. Most of us use several different computers on a day-to-day basis, but our files aren't ...READ»

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Living with Google: A Day-in-the-Life

Google’s cloud-based apps have transformed the way people surf the web, do business, and view the world around them. Gmail has 176 million users to date, and Google Maps sees more than 44 million visitors each...READ»

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Microsoft and Facebook Team Up for Attack on Google Docs

Google pioneered and dominates the field of cloud-based documents and spreadsheets, but as announced at Facebook's f8 conference, they've now got some competition from Microsoft.READ»

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Five Ways the New Google Docs Speeds Up Teamwork

Google Docs' latest upgrade makes the strongest case yet to skip Microsoft Office and collaborate with your group in your browser--especially when you're not in the same physical space. Here are five ways the new Google Docs helps ...READ»

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New Platform! Jawoco.Com developing Webware by using Open Source Technology.

Imran Sheikh the Lead Developer for Project E, just managed to stop using Adobe services and starts developing new platform for the Project E.Although no one knows that what is Project E but platform of the technology explains us that ...READ»

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Yale University Panics, Gets Cold Feet About Switch to Gmail

You'd think a college campus would be thrilled about switching from a proprietary email system to Gmail--but Yale has delayed that very switch over a variety of mostly ridiculous fears.READ»

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Google Apps Migration Tool Aims to Rip Out The Business Heart of Microsoft's Exchange

For anyone who's ever doubted Google's intention of stealing core Microsoft business, even with the recent machinations, there's now this: Google has tool that makes migrating from MS Exhange to Google Apps as easy as four ...READ»

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Four Apps From the Google Marketplace Worth Installing Right Now

The launch of the Google Apps Marketplace means GOOG's giving every Web service the same privilege Buzz had: integration with Gmail, Docs, Calendar and the rest of the GApps gang. If you administer a Google Apps account for your ...READ»

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Google Aims at Small Business Software Market, With Cloud-Connected Apps Store

Google's up to its old tricks again, extending software tentacles in new directions to capture or subvert entire markets: This time it's aiming at business software by launching Google Apps Marketplace, which does clever ...READ»

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Sun Microsystems: Your Value to the Community

As the chief architect of Sun's Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a psychologist, and a ...READ»

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Google Announces Offline Docs

Here Ken Norton, Product Manager at Google, shows us the new offline features of Google Docs, which were just released today.READ»

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Taking Microsoft Office Online

How is Microsoft going to keep people from leaving Microsoft Office and moving to, say, Google Docs and Spreadsheets or Zoho? Well, Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President of Information Worker Group at Microsoft, tells me how ...READ»

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Obscura Digital: iGoogle Artist Themes

One of Obscura's best known projects, iGoogle Artist Themes involved turning an entire city block of the Meatpacking District in New York into a series of projected, interactive billboards, where the work of artists like Jeff Koons ...READ»

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During Apple Week, Google and Amazon Try to Remind You They Exist

It's iPad week on the Web: Thanks to Apple there are precious few items of technology news out there that aren't concerned with it. But that's got Amazon and Google in a tizzy, and they're trying to remind you they're newsworthy ...READ»

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Google's Fast Flip News Browser Gets Home-Page Limelight

Say what you like about the issues of Google's news-aggregation activities--at least the company's innovating how it presents the stuff: As of today its experimental Fast Flip news browsing service is getting a position on the News ...READ»