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News Google has been working to add an offline ability to Google Docs, while Zoho was even earlier to add the ability to work within a browser while offline. Microsoft's forthcoming Office Web Applications will allow users to... [18 Nov 2008]
Google pledges reliability for its cloud-based Apps
News Now the company has extended the promise to Google Calendar, Google Docs, and all the other elements of its Google Apps service. Matthew Glotzbach, director of Google Enterprise product management, said in his blog:... [31 Oct 2008]
Ballmer: 'Windows Cloud' on the horizon?
News Microsoft's Office Live Workspace currently allows for online storage and viewing of documents but not the editing offered by Google Docs and other online services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said at a London... [02 Oct 2008]
Google: Celebrating 10 years, with $10m 'do-gooder' pledge
News The anniversary site offers a timeline that spotlights historical moments such as Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 spur-of-the-moment investment in 1998, the date in 2000 when it reached one billion pages in its index of the web, the 2002... [24 Sep 2008]
Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands
News The report meanwhile attributed Google's success to "innovations like Google Mobile, Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Book Search" which has extended its "reach and ubiquity". Apple may currently be king of consumer... [19 Sep 2008]
Yahoo! previews iPhone social-networking app
News This software lets people search the web, with a boost from search suggestions and previous search history, and get links to Google Docs stored online. Yahoo! on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone... [11 Sep 2008]
Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
News Chrome will provide a central point for the company's panoply of services and applications, offering a hub to consolidate everything from Google Maps and Docs to Gmail and Shopping. Google dipped its mighty toe into the... [02 Sep 2008]
Financial advisors digitise docs to please FSA
News Independent financial advisor group Independent Financial Services (IFS) has signed a deal to implement scanners in 100 offices, to keep client documents safe in light of FSA regulation. The Kodak scanners provided by BMI Solutions will... [01 Sep 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News People can also use the Google Talk instant messenger and Google Docs - meaning journalists can share information more easily and collaborate on documents. The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving all of its employees... [23 Jul 2008]
Google Docs: Now more than just spreadsheets
News Users of Google Docs, the online applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, now have a wide range of templates to choose from. Some templates, such as the group shared expense report, are... [18 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News He points to the rise of closed, "tethered" systems used by devices such as iPhones and Xboxes or "cloud computing", where people use online software such as Google Docs. Internet scholar Jonathan Zittrain says the web... [30 Jun 2008]
Google Docs sports PDF support
News Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but useful support for PDF files. The move, announced on the Google Docs blog last week, isn't much of a surprise as close... [17 Jun 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document... [21 Apr 2008]
Google Apps hosts one big team talk over the web
News Google Apps Team Edition is a free service that lets people within the same email domain collaborate easily with Google Apps, a package that includes Calendar, Docs, Talk and Start Page. Security from A to Z [07 Feb 2008]
Redmond squaring up to Google's web apps
News Google currently allows Gmail users to open attachments in Google Docs. 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... [01 Oct 2007]
