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Google may unveil a key new component of its office suite next week at TechCrunch40, the demo-like conference being organised by Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. Named Presently the new software is a presentation tool, analoguous to PowerPoint in Microsoft’s Office suite. Please note - Mike and Jason haven’t actually said that [...]
Rumours about a Google mobile phone continue to do the rounds. If we put some “facts” together, they point to an interesting conclusion: that Google’s new phone could be the first phone to be based on the JavaFX Mobile phone operating system.
JavaFX Mobile is Sun’s new mobile phone OS. The OS is [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Google is to pay $3.1B in cash to acquire one of the early pioneers of online advertising, DoubleClick (see the press release). I’ve seen a number of people writing that Google has overpaid here. The truth is, it’s quite possible that we [...]
Jason Calacanis loves “Google Office” or “Google Apps” or whatever you want to call it - he things it’s great. I think the applications are fine, but, if you’re a regular reader, you’ll know I think that for most businesses, they’re not really relevant (at least not at the moment). However, Jason [...]
I’m sure you seen that Google has just announced its $50 per user per year set of Google Office applications (you can read the story over at InformationWeek if not). For that, you get access to: e-mail, calendar, instant messaging, word processor and spreadsheet on-line applications.
It’s easy to understand why the Google management team [...]
It’s funny. Just a couple of days ago, I was reading a post on Scoble’s blog, entitled - Google, The World’s Largest Startup? The post was all about Google APIs and widgets, and how great they are. The comments section made for some interesting reading, especially comment #7 from Google’s Mark Lucovsky. [...]
So… you’ve probably seen that Yahoo! and Google uber-bloggers Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Cutts have got caught up in a “who copied who” war of words, when talking about the design download pages for the companies’s respective IE7 browser toolbars, bundled with the IE7 browser. See Jeremy’s original post, and Matt’s follow-up.
I think all [...]
Imagine you’re a venture capital group that invests in both life science companies (biotechnology & pharmaceuticals) and software companies. If you’re successful in both areas, the chances are that the software side of your business is outperforming the life sciences side of your business. Which begs the question: can life science companies [...]
I’ve blogged before about Google attempting to increase usage of its toolbar via bundling. Now Google has done another deal. This time the company has paid Adobe to bundle the Google Toolbar with Adobe’s Shockwave/Flash multimedia player.
I’m not quite sure why Google believes that anyone really wants to use their toolbar. I understand [...]
I’ve spent a few minutes today trying out the new Google Spreadsheets system. Seems to import simple Excel multi-worksheet spreadsheets well. The system pretty much does what it says on the tin, and works as you’d expect a simple spreadsheet program to work. It’s not even close to being an Excel competitor [...]