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Weekend Gadget Watch: BlackBerry Storm 2
Photo On-screen keyboard isn't as well-designed as the physical BlackBerry keyboard; user interface is dull; Web browser is comparatively poor; apps can be expensive; heavy SurePress touchscreen is good for... [20 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... [19 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. While ikee doesn't put your personal data at... [13 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. The Wave platform offers users a... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Ian Auger, head of IT and communications at ITN, also sounded a note of caution: "Whilst not being afraid to use open source in some dedicated or server type applications, our desktop is dominated by Microsoft compatible applications and... [28 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Wave apps are also already making ripples within two of Google's fellow web 2.0 pioneers, Wikipedia and software-as-a-service specialist Salesforce.com. However, according to Rasmussen, it's Wave's... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet In a recent report, the company predicted revenue associated with augmented reality will grow from a modest $6m in 2008 to more than $350m in 2014 - a hike of more than 5,700 per cent - largley due to to mobile apps and... [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 will get access... [26 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment The majority of businesses have at least one if not multiple apps like that. Our CIO asked about the proposition and our response was 'If all the expenses you know about don't bother you, keep in mind that we have over... [13 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Other technologies judged by Forrester to be increasingly important over the next few years include policy-based SOA, mobile apps and business processes, cloud-based platforms, web 2.0-enabled business... [12 Oct 2009]
Google Wave opens doors to 100,000 newbies
News In addition to the developers and waiting list, Google also plans to open Wave up to a limited number of Google Apps enterprise customers for testing, Rasmussen said. Google Wave is an attempt to re-engineer internet... [30 Sep 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 After all, the browser is the portal to online apps and services and, according to some industry watchers, will essentially become the operating system of tomorrow as more and more consumers embrace software hosted on... [22 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's web-based Office: First taster goes live
News The limited test of the so-called Office Web Apps includes versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint but not the OneNote note-taking application. Microsoft plans to offer the Web... [18 Sep 2009]
