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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 makes that work... [17 Jun 2009]
Testing times for the cloud: IBM gets involved
News IBM's focus on development mirrors moves by Microsoft with Azure and Google with App Engine. The company said this service significantly reduces power consumption, simplifies management and can cut lower-end support... [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 personal information management... [10 Jun 2009]
Intel: From silicon company - to software company?
News Wind River supports not just moblin but also Google's Linux-based Android operating system for mobile phones. Apple, which uses Intel chips in desktop and notebook computers, has its own iPhone business... [05 Jun 2009]
Opera unveils test version of Opera 10
News Competition in the browser market has escalated lately after Google launched its own internet browser, Chrome, in 2008. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is used for about 60 per cent of global internet traffic, Mozilla's... [04 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 speech kicking off... [28 May 2009]
Minority Report: Apple, Google closer than ever?
Comment Mac OS X has grown its market share with years of impressive quarterly growth while Google's mobile OS Android is threatening to break out from the smartphone space and into the desktop/notebook arena. [26 May 2009]
Android's Cupcake tastes sweeter with YouTube
News As part of a series of blog posts, Google has released more information this week about what users can expect out of version 1.5 of the Android operating system, which has been going by the codename Cupcake. [08 May 2009]
Samsung announces first Android phone landing in June
News Android's browser has never been explicitly named, but is based on the same WebKit framework as Google's desktop browser, Chrome. Samsung's Android handset combines the Google-led mobile... [28 Apr 2009]
Ask the Experts: Should I embrace the cloud?
Comment This is leading many people to opt for a 'thinish' client model with a limited offline capability such as Google Desktop. There are variations in the definition of cloud specifically in whether you... [08 Apr 2009]
Skype unveils iPhone and BlackBerry services
News It has already announced Skype for Nokia phones and for phones based on Android, Google's mobile system, and Windows Mobile, from Microsoft. Skype, the internet telephone unit of eBay, is planning to launch its service... [30 Mar 2009]
'Android-powered netbooks coming this year'
News According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavours of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop,... [18 Mar 2009]
Office 14: Get ready for a first taste
News I think the reality is Google isn't an enterprise company. Although the company had some high-profile customers consider a move to Google Apps, Capossela said that the pressure has actually waned somewhat. [04 Mar 2009]
Ballmer focused on the Apple and Android threats
News I assume we'll see Android-based, Linux-based laptops, in addition to phones, and we'll see Google more and more as a competitor in the desktop operating system business than we ever have before. And... [25 Feb 2009]
Google wants to get in on Microsoft antitrust case
News Google wants to help the European Commission prove antitrust charges against Microsoft related to the software giant's dominance of the web browser market. Google, which recently released its Chrome web... [25 Feb 2009]
