Tag: Google
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1. It’s A Good Idea
Categories: Tech Companies1. It’s A Good Idea If nothing else, Google’s Chrome OS platform is a good idea. As more and more consumers start accessing the Web for their many needs, it only makes sense than operating system would bridge the gap between their offline efforts and their Web practices. Chrome OS might not be groundbreaking, but… Read more
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Google Brings User Managed Storage to Apps Customers
Taking a page out of the books of Web-based storage providers, Google March 1 began offering User Managed Storage to meet Google Apps customers’ requirements for additional space for their content in the cloud. Google Apps is the search engine’s suite of e-mail, document, presentation, spreadsheet and other apps, all residing on servers in Google’s… Read more
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IBM: We Don’t Want To Be Google
LAS VEGAS – IBM has the capability to compete with Google or Microsoft’s Bing in the search arena, but the company has no interest in moving in that direction despite the strong showing IBM made in answering a variety of complex questions with its Watson supercomputer in a Jeopardy! quiz show competition. At IBM’s Pulse… Read more
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Cisco’s Hosted E-Mail Service Says Goodbye
Cisco Systems pulled the plug on Cisco Mail, the hosted e-mail service it launched a mere 13 months ago. While Cisco Mail was “well received,” Cisco found that customers were not interested in hosted e-mail as much as they cared about “social software and video,” Cisco said in a Feb. 22 blog post announcing the… Read more
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Google Apps Certification Program Unveiled
Google is introducing a Google Apps Certification program to help its 2,500 reseller partners distinguish themselves as experts in deployment, development and support of Google Apps. Google announced the new certification program in its Official Google Enterprise Blog. Google Apps Authorized Reseller Cloud Sherpas embraced the program. “As we continue to build out our global… Read more