Tag: Google

  • Google’s Partner Program Misses the Mark

    Pedro Pereira

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    Google doesn’t get the channel. Mind you, that is not a new revelation, but the vendor’s launch of a Google Apps partner program once again demonstrated that while Google has done many things right, it has little clue about how to work with solution providers. What makes the vendor’s half-hearted approach to solution providers even… Read more

  • Google: We’re Committed Growing with the Channel

    Google: We’re Committed Growing with the Channel

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Google’s launch of a formal reseller channel partner program for Google Apps Premier Edition could be considered a pre-emptive strike against Microsoft, as the Microsoft Office Web Applications aren’t scheduled for release until 2010. Still, a channel partner of both companies says Google’s new program stacks up with the best of them. Google made its… Read more

  • Getting Out of the Microsoft Office

    Getting Out of the Microsoft Office

    Jessica Davis

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    Getting Out of the Microsoft Office Google has spent the last several years playing on the periphery of one of Microsoft’s richest markets: Office applications. Now Google is launching a reseller program to accelerate the adoption of its Web-based Google apps. But Google isn’t the only one trying to challenge Microsoft’s dominance of everyday productivity… Read more

  • Google Launches Google Apps Premier Edition Reseller Program

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Google’s announcement that it will launch a formal reseller program for its SAAS-based Google Apps Premier Edition could very well be viewed as a pre-emptive strike across the bow of Microsoft, whose own Web-based set of Office Web Applications isn’t scheduled for release until 2010. Google made its reseller news public Jan. 14 in its… Read more

  • Google Goes Analog to Warn of Pending Layoffs

    Kathleen A. Martin

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    Google has announced that it will cut its temporary workforce, but no one is quite sure how many people will be affected.  In an unusual move, Google filed notice of its cost-cutting plans in paper, not electronically, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during the holidays. This left many analysts and stock trackers in… Read more

  • Microsoft, Apple, Google Sued by Small Company for Patent Infringement

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Cygnus Systems, a Michigan-based solution provider, is suing Microsoft, Apple and Google, claiming the tech heavyweights infringed on a patent it holds for a common file preview feature. Future lawsuits could hit Adobe and other software vendors. Cygnus, a solution provider and Web development company that partners with many leading technology vendors, was recently awarded… Read more