Tag: Google
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More Than Half of Enterprise Email Will Live in the Cloud By 2020
Web-based e-mail will comprise at least 10 percent of the license seats in enterprises through 2014, but will hit 55 percent by 2020 as it reaches mass adoption, according to Gartner. Web-based, or cloud e-mail, is hosted by providers such as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), VMware’s Zimbra unit and several startups, and provisioned to users… Read more
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Google Preps Next-Gen Android Developers for ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’
Categories: News and TrendsGoogle (NASDAQ:GOOG) has made no attempt to hush talk of "Ice Cream Sandwich," the next build of Android that promises to unify elements of the Android 2.x smartphone branch and Android 3.x "Honeycomb" branch of the platform for tablets. The Android development team paved the way for developers Sept. 19 by warning them about what… Read more
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Google ITA Launches Flight Search
Categories: News and TrendsGoogle (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 13 revealed Flight Search, which lets users search for airline flights and fares right from Google. Google Flight Search is the first fruit of Google’s integration of ITA Software, the flight data provider it purchased in April after a protracted antitrust investigation by the Justice Department. The service will compete with popular… Read more
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Intel Announces Google Partnership, Ultrabook Details at IDF
SAN FRANCISCO–Intel executives are continuing to push their mobile computing efforts on multiple fronts, including with a newly announced partnership with Google to optimize the Android operating system for the chip maker’s Atom processor platform. In his opening keynote Sept. 13 at the first day of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel President and CEO Paul… Read more
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Microsoft, Google Both Suffer Cloud Computing Outages
It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists,… Read more
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Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps More Different Than The Same
Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defining on-premises server and thick-client productivity applications, and in the other corner, we ve had Google, with its popular Webmail… Read more