Google Apps
Google works on its social side
News Google's social network, Orkut, is among the sites that will accept apps written using OpenSocial APIs. Facebook opened up its platform to developers in June and the site was flooded with... [31 Oct 2007]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile The Google Apps range has also been expanded to include an enterprise version for businesses and an online version of Microsoft's PowerPoint. It's been another big year for Eric Schmidt, who maintains... [12 Oct 2007]
Blake Ross
AS Profile He famously joined Netscape as a 14-year-old intern and has recently sold his company Parakey - which takes desktop apps to the web - to Facebook. Ross isn't afraid to make waves either, having blasted... [12 Oct 2007]
Google adds Postini security to its Apps
News Google Apps Premier Edition now boasts email security and compliance services, thanks to the company's acquisition of Postini. We are quickly adding Postini's market-leading security and compliance... [03 Oct 2007]
Redmond squaring up to Google's web apps
News In another clear sign that Microsoft sees the threat posed by its traditional business moving online, the company is readying a rival to Google's Documents and Spreadsheets. In addition to Google's... [01 Oct 2007]
Google: Personalisation is the future
News Usage of Google mobile apps rose 10 per cent each week for the first three weeks in June and saw a 40 per cent to 50 per cent spike almost overnight after the iPhone was launched, Mayer said in comments... [23 Aug 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News Wladawsky-Berger said: "Training and meetings are the killer apps of virtual worlds. His most recent venture, animation software company Eyematic Interfaces, was bought by Google. A group of virtual... [02 Aug 2007]
Move over killer apps, the platform era is here
News Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, which not only offers advertising systems that enable anyone with a website to make money off that site but has also actively encouraged... [13 Jul 2007]
AJAX Apps Ripe Targets for JavaScript Hijacking
White Paper A pervasive vulnerability that allows an attacker to take over any Web browser and silently intercept sensitive data input occurs in Web 2.0 settings from Yahoo to ASP .Net to Google, security firm Fortify says. [03 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo This month Google unveiled the latest addition to its mapping technology. Google courted more than 5,000 developers at its international Google Developer Day this month. The search giant... [27 Jun 2007]
Xerox launches intelligent search engine
News Segond added the FactSpotter tool is the next step for searching documents and uses "web 3.0" technology which connects data, whereas web 2.0 apps only collect data. Gain said: "We are not taking on... [22 Jun 2007]
Google boss eyes the future
News Google owes its present position to building mass-market applications - search, most notably - but in the last two years it has begun to focus on more business-targeted applications and devices, such as the... [20 Jun 2007]
BBC and Yahoo! get ready for 'Hack Day'
News The developers - or 'hackers' - will spend 24 hours using existing web apps to create completely new ones, in what is billed as a 'jam session' for techies. s own network will use their skills to modify existing... [15 Jun 2007]
iPhone rings up web 2.0 developers
News Mark Blowers, senior research analyst at Butler Group, told silicon.com by letting developers loose with the iPhone, Apple will "widen the pool of innovation" and increase the number of future iPhone apps. [12 Jun 2007]
Apple's Safari coming to Windows PCs
News Safari will also allow web developers to create applications for the iPhone using common web development standards that can interact with the rest of the apps that will ship with the iPhone. Applications designed with... [12 Jun 2007]