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RSS Microsoft appsOffice 2010: Beta launched
News The beta allows businesses to start using the browser-based Office Web Apps. Office 2010 beta is now publicly available for download, Microsoft announced yesterday. Microsoft's Redmond... [19 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to Google Apps Premier Edition and... [04 Nov 2009]
ROI Case Study Google Apps TVR Communications
White Paper TVR Communications replace its existing Microsoft Exchange environment with Google Apps and improved collaboration, reducing IT costs and risk while increasing agility. An ROI study by Nucleus Research... [04 Nov 2009]
Google Apps 2nd Wind ROI Case Study
White Paper Nucleus Research conducted an ROI study with 2nd Wind Exercise and found that this 300-user specialty retail company achieved an ROI of 837% and a one-month payback.nd Wind replaced its existing Microsoft Exchange... [04 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment The biggest issue for many organisations with Vista was that existing apps just didn't run on it: using 'compatibility modes' didn't help, and the thought of having to replace an application that worked fine under XP... [28 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment A number of e-reader apps - such as Stanza, Classics and Short Covers - have been available for some time on Apple's ubiquitous iPhone. With the recent launch of Microsoft's app store, Windows... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News For Vincent, doing something different meant making the decision to migrate 14,500 staff worldwide from Microsoft Outlook to Google Mail and Calendar, part of the search giant's Google Apps suite. Staff... [26 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News Business support services company Rentokil Initial has signed up for the biggest enterprise deployment of Google Apps to date. The implementation of Google Apps Premier Edition will eventually cover... [12 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: Starter edition coming with Office 2010
News Unlike the Works suite, it will be compatible with Office, and is one of Microsoft's attempts to compete with increasing rivalry from open source offerings such as Google Apps. Microsoft... [09 Oct 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Of the reasons why Schmidt merited fourth spot on the Agenda Setters list, one panellist said Google "is the cloud" and its move to corporate apps is likely to be "hugely significant", potentially contributing to the... [29 Sep 2009]
Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses
News It will allow developers to makes apps in PHP, the common web-scripting language, in order that they can work with different clouds. IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open... [24 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet There are two reasons why the browser is interesting to Google - one, it can optimise Chrome to run the apps it produces and therefore theoretically make them more attractive to consumers and two, it can make sure power... [22 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's web-based Office: First taster goes live
News Microsoft plans to offer the Web Apps preview first to users of Windows Live SkyDrive, giving them 25GB worth of storage. The Office Web Apps will be made available to consumers as a... [18 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News As students get ready to head back to university this autumn, five million of them will be using Google Apps. The number of students using the apps suite has doubled 400 per cent year-on-year, Google said. [09 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment Though Apple has rejected many iPhone apps that may threaten its business, it's approved a music service dubbed the 'iTunes killer'. Apple has previously rejected the song rental model favoured by Real,... [03 Sep 2009]
