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Google quietly landed what could be a killer blow for Microsoft Apps with the release of a number of upgrades to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The first piece of bad news for Microsoft: Google created a separate iOS app for Slides, its answer to Microsoft PowerPoint.
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Cheeky Google is stomping all over what has until recently been an exclusive Microsoft stomping ground. Well, nearly exclusive. Google has just announced the release of Google Classroom for anyone that is currently using Google Apps for Education.
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Your app runs in a little square.
All the money you spend on developers, design teams, content production and infrastructure for your app essentially boils down to a little square. Sometimes it’s a bigger square. Sometimes it’s more of a rectangle.
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Google is making it even easier to move from Microsoft Office to Google Docs. At last month’s Google I/O conference, Google gave Office users the ability to edit documents in Docs, which was one of the sticking points for those considering a jump to Google.
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Microsoft announced a few weeks ago that it was going to provide transparency around its Office 365 business. — and also said it would be shaking up the price plans. It did just that at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and the good news is that prices are going down
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Google has offered the surest sign yet that Europe and its IT sector are starting to shrug off the recession. The sign comes in the shape of a new venture capital fund that will “invest in the best ideas from the best European entrepreneurs.” The news was confirmed this morning
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Edward Snowden has done more for electronic security than anyone else. Singlehandedly, he has forced some of the biggest IT vendors to take a close look at data, data transfer, and how it is stored. This follows the revelation that security agencies across the world were systematically scanning emails.
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Every time Google or Microsoft makes an announcement about lowering the price of storage, someone asks us why anyone would pay more for a service like Dropbox, Box, Syncplicity, Egnyte, Accellion … you get the picture.
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If you’re one of the top cats in the Microsoft business division, the Google I/O conference must be one of the most irritating things of the year. At I/O, Google always seems to find a way to squeeze the fun from Microsoft’s master plan to rule the business world.
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If you haven’t protected the data you're holding in Salesforce, you’re taking a risk. What if it disappears? What if you loose it? There are recovery apps available to deal with those kinds of scenarios, but they are often complicated, expensive and difficult to use. Spanning claims its upgrade offers
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Google has taken up the challenge of shedding light on retail behavior by adding enhanced e-commerce capabilities to its analytics platform.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock with your ears plugged for the past three months, you’ve heard Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella preaching the gospel of Mobile and Cloud, Mobility in the Cloud and so on. Today his wallet did the talking. This morning Microsoft announced that it has purchased
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Thailand seems an unlikely place for competition in the productivity suite market to erupt. However, the announcement last night by Microsoft that it has signed a deal with the Thai government to provide 8 million students with Office 365 should stir things up in Asia.
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This morning the software provider that sells commercial packages around Open Source Couchbase Server brings Couchbase Mobile to market. It includes mobile data synchronization and what the company’s Chief Mobile Architect, Wayne Carter, calls the world’s first and only native NoSQL mobile database.
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