One Swallow Doth Not a Summer Make
Before any wit comes up with any other suggestions for the meaning of the title of this post, the “swallow” in the above refers to the bird, Stelgidopteryx serripennis, and not the physiological movement, phagia. For one swallow does not make the summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short [...]
Coming Next Week?
Well all very exciting isn’t it… First the (former) owners of office.com mysteriously move to contactoffice.com. Then Mr Robert Scoble hints at some big and impressive announcement by Microsoft next week. And finally Microsoft spends a gazillion dollars making a video about Office 2010 that, while saying nothing about the product, is sure to excite [...]
Using eBay as SaaS Marketing Tool?
This listing on eBay is hilarious, almost makes me wonder if it’s a true listing or carefully planted advertising for Google Apps (and SaaS in general). But the seller appears to be real, has been on eBay for ten years… Here we go, get Microsoft Office w. Outlook for $75, because: It’s brand new and [...]
Adobe Releases Spreadsheet SaaS Application And Adds Premium Version
After pushing RIA strongly for sometime, Adobe decided to embraced SaaS format (in their own way though) and they released Adobe Buzzword after they acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind the Buzzword app. Buzzword is built on Flex framework and offered through a web browser. The release of Buzzword exposed the dilemma faced by Adobe [...]
Rackspace shakes up hosted email
Image via CrunchBase I’ve just caught up with the Rackspace launch of their latest version of Rackspace Email the other day. Rackspace Email is an email hosting service that is firmly trying to provide an alternative to Microsoft exchange – and brings with it some inherent advantages of cloud computingIt can be thought of as [...]
Gmail Migration Tools Attack Inertia
A few years ago a software recruiter told me how he deleted job applications sent from a Hotmail account: after all, how could an applicant claim to be technology-savvy and still be using hotmail? Seriously. While Yahoo was by far not as bad as Hotmail, there was a stigma attached to using the free webmail [...]
Google Apps Targets Enterprises With Directory Sync
Google today took a much needed step to target the enterprise customers by releasing Google Apps Directory Sync. One of the biggest obstacles for businesses in the adoption of Google Apps is the difficulty in moving from a LDAP kind of directory system. With the release of Google Apps Directory Sync, Google is taking away [...]
Gmail Outage and the Benefit of Synchronization (or Backup)
Gmail appears to have another outage today. While reports of the outage surfaced on Twitter hours ago, Google’s status board indicated all was OK, until about 15 minutes ago, when this update appeared: 2:16pm: We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access [...]
