Not quite ready to live in the cloud
Google’s impressive Chromebook Pixel is just the latest in a series of devices which are trying to entice users to compute in a different way. With (almost) ubiquitous connectivity, and an increasing reliance upon web-based services for mail, calendars, document creation and more, might we be reaching a point at which the browser really can [...]
Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?
Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote about the new feature. Today’s workplace has exploded beyond the office walls and into coffee shops, [...]
Google Releases New Zoho Service: Mail with Offline Support
Yes, you read it right: the first announcement of Zoho Mail’s general availability, with Google Gears-based offline support did not come from Zoho, but from the Google Gears team, which released this video discussing Zoho’s use of Google Gears, synchronization, the Marketplace and a lot more a bit prematurely: Somewhat used to it (see TechCrunch [...]
S+S/SaaS – So What's in a Name?
Steve Clayton from Microsoft is a great guy with one of the blogs I religiously follow (and I follow a lot of RSS feeds). I actually quite like his somewhat defensive stance – it must be hard working for a company that, from appearances, is reviled by all the cool kids in town, and to [...]
