Zoho News & Articles

Welcome to the September installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

The history between KnowledgeTree (news, site) and Zoho (news, site) is a long one based largely on the former providing SaaS document management and the latter providing the online productivity platform. That history has been extended with further integration and new abilities.

For SMBs that are looking for CRM, but don’t have huge budgets, the general release this week of SugarCRM 6 after four months of beta should be good news. Google Android is also in the spotlight this week with the release of App Inventor, which enables everyone to develop apps for Android devices.

Zoho (news, site) offers a way to link all your popular Web-based calendars in one all-encompassing digital diary.

There have been some interesting moves in the SMB voice technology market this week with Google making Google Voice freely available and the release of eVocie’s Blackberry App. From a security point of view, research from CDW indicates that many companies are not going secure their data until the very worst happens.

 A company with web tools for everyone, Zoho (news, site) adds another string to its bow with its own portal production package.

Analyst calls are often dull, stat-heavy affairs. So it's good to hear some spirit as Salesforce's (news, site) CEO calls Microsoft "Alley Thugs" for its legal tactics in another of IT's endless patent disputes.

Cloud-just-about-everything provider Zoho (news, site) adds integrated search to its range of productivity tools, to help workers find references, data, documents and people from within the cloud-stored archives.

Elementool (news, site) ups the stakes in project management software by adding instant video conferencing to its SaaS toolset, so now co-workers are never more than a click away.

Zoho (news, site) has added a domain registration module to Zoho Business, powered by GoDaddy.com so that users can buy and register their domains.

So, the announement of the Google Marketplace was a pretty big deal, wouldn’t you say?

The excitement revolving around the new development goes to show how ready and willing most of us are to pack up and move to the cloud, and the Google brand is obviously going to play a major part in getting us there. 

This week, Facebook takes more SMBs into more advertising markets in more cities, while HyperOffice finally releases its “no geek required” suite of collaboration tools for business users.

After weeks of rumors, Google (news, site) finally launched Google Apps Marketplace, their new online store for business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.

The launch will add an aggressive edge to their Google Apps marketing push, and will also put pressure on other cloud stores like Salesforce.com’s AppExchange and Apple’s AppStore.

Online presentations can benefit from some extra jazz, thanks to productivity outfit Zoho's (news, site) update to its Show product.

What to watch this year when it comes to the enterprise? The ever-wise Dion Hinchcliffe of ZDNet has his money on the growth of SaaS and Social Computing, but he's not holding his breath.