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Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications that are built and run on the latter's Force.com platform. The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San... [20 Nov 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: BlackBerry Storm 2
Photo SurePress touchscreen is good for slow, accurate tapping; speedy wi-fi and 3G connectivity; attractive screen; push email sends your messages to you in real-time; good apps available; 3.5mm headphone jack [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Chatter can also be linked to the 135,000 applications built on the Salesforce.com Force.com platform, while developers can also build apps that link it to business applications that don't run on Force.com such as Google... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 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. New features include a social networking connector that... [19 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
News As a result, there's now fierce competition for domination of the mobile apps space. The increasing adoption of smartphones and the success of app stores has ignited the mobile apps market (follow the... [18 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up In other words, iPhones that have been hacked by their owners using unofficial code permitting the customisation of the operating system and the loading of unapproved apps. Warning to iPhone users: you may find the... [13 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. Check out what other useful apps your iPhone needs in the full story here. Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to... [12 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
White Paper This paper reviews four organizations who gained savings, productivity and innovation with Google Apps. Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn't changed: management's insistence on justifying IT investments by... [09 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment The netbook coped admirably with running all these apps. Netbooks are everywhere - but can they replace your work laptop? silicon.com's Bethan Jones put one to the test. Last week I set myself a challenge: ditch my... [09 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Check out silicon.com's list of business apps for the iPhone here. Look at the figures: there are more than 100,000 apps available for purchase and download. Apps have been downloaded... [06 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 Google's email... [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 environment with Google... [04 Nov 2009]
ROI Case Study Google Apps TVR Communications
White Paper An ROI study by Nucleus Research found that a 400-employee customer deploying Google Apps achieved an ROI of 500% with a one-month payback. TVR Communications replace its existing Microsoft Exchange environment with... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo People can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and documents within the wave but it is the wave's ability to handle custom apps that promises to be the most useful for business. Since Google launched its Wave... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com crafting a wave app that can help companies deal with customer queries. Here Salesforce demonstrates the... [30 Oct 2009]