Google Desktop apps
Microsoft's web-based Office: First taster goes live
News While Google Apps lets users share a document directly, Office Web Apps enables sharing at the folder level - meaning that to share a document, a user must save it into a folder on... [18 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News Google Apps, which covers communication, collaboration and security apps, is a major front in Google's battle to gain control of the desktop. As... [09 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News From a consumer's standpoint, what happens is when they buy a phone, they are stuck in an island of apps that are built for just one platform. Krishnamurti says mobile phone application developers have long complained... [03 Sep 2009]
Microsoft lays down developer challenge for Windows Mobile apps
News Still, for the hopeful winners, odds clearly favour the free and premium applications that are promoted in the app store the longest, and among them, apps already popular on earlier Windows Mobile builds and on other... [28 Jul 2009]
Office 2010: You're not getting in without an invite
News Those so-called Office Web Applications are being demonstrated on Monday but the technical preview of the web apps won't come until later this year. The applications, which run in Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer,... [13 Jul 2009]
Free apps way to woo users into opening wallets?
News Templeton said the approach was inspired by consumer technologies such as iTunes and Google Apps. By getting XenServer for free, Templeton said, Citrix hopes businesses will buy the licensed products it... [17 Jun 2009]
Google crossbreeds Outlook, Google Apps with new tool
News Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, announced on Tuesday, is a plug-in that lets companies adopt Google Apps mail infrastructure as the back-end for their email and... [10 Jun 2009]
Google: Apps to shun OS for the desktop
News Google spent Wednesday morning trying to get developers excited about the next generation of web technologies by showing off how future web applications will mimic desktop apps. In his... [28 May 2009]
Office 14: Get ready for a first taste
News Although the company had some high-profile customers consider a move to Google Apps, Capossela said that the pressure has actually waned somewhat. That will certainly be true of the suite this time and... [04 Mar 2009]
Mozilla developers set up camp on the cloud
News Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, the leaders of the Developer Tools Lab, said the aim of the project is to follow the example of tools such as Google Apps in shifting desktop-based tasks... [17 Feb 2009]
Waiting for web-based Office? Keep waiting
News The company has recently had some big customers consider abandoning Office and move to Google Apps, but has wooed some of them back by sharing their plan for the Office Web apps. Procter... [08 Dec 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Labs
Photo Graduates include the web portal iGoogle, Google Desktop and the RSS feed aggregator, Google Reader.silicon.com took a look around Google Labs and picked out some of the... [19 Nov 2008]
Microsoft building an Office in the cloud
News The company has been pushed into this arena by Google, which has been offering its free Google Apps programs for some time. Although Google Apps has... [29 Oct 2008]
Aaron Seigo
AS Profile The KDE project also offers an application development framework to encourage programmers to create apps for the platform, and many applications already available to use include an in-progress office suite. [07 Oct 2008]
Microsoft to launch mobile apps store offering?
News It looks as though Microsoft is joining Apple and Google in the mobile 'apps store' market. Also, new phones using Google's Android operating system are expected to hit the market soon.... [01 Sep 2008]
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