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Google's priority inbox

Email overload?  Yeah, us too.  Perhaps Google’s new ‘priority inbox’ for Gmail might help some?

Priority Inbox is Google’s attempt to solve the e-mail woes of Gmail power users. At its core, the feature is an algorithm; Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select the [...]

Salesforce.com releases Q2 figures

Salesforce just released Q2 financial results today, posting record revenue of $394 million, an increase of 25% on a year-over-year basis. Q2 GAAP diluted earnings per share decreased 35% year-over-year to $0.11, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was flat year-over-year at $0.29.

Net Income came in at $14.7 million, down from $21.1 million in the same [...]

Google waves goodbye to Wave

Google has decided to pull the plug on its Google Wave project.

Feted by some as this year’s new new thing, and by others as a confusing, buggy mess, Google Wave nonetheless managed to generate a ton of press during its short tenure.

However, with takeup lower than expected – due partly, one suspects, to the system [...]

Apple posts record quarterly revenue

Super strong results from Apple today for their third-quarter (to the end of June) period.The Company posted record revenue of $15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share.These results compare to revenue of $9.73 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.83 billion, or $2.01 per diluted share, in the [...]

IBM net income up 9 percent

IDG News Service — IBM’s second-quarter profits were up 9 percent from a year earlier, the company announced on Monday, with increased sales in the U.S. and Asia helping to offset weaker spending in Europe.

Net profit for the quarter ended June 30 was US$3.4 billion, or $2.61 per share, up from $3.1 billion, or $2.32 [...]

Salesforce Chatter officially launched

Salesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world,Chatter, is finally open to the public after four months in private beta.

Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff calls the Cloud 2, delivering realtime access to data and information, using social sources, such as YouTube and Twitter.

In Feburary, Chatter was launched in private beta [...]

IBM collaboration software to support iPad

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an expansion of IBM Lotus messaging and collaboration software with the delivery of secure enterprise mail for the Apple iPad. The news was announced at both the Deutsche Notes User Group in Berlin and the Apple Developers Conference in San Francisco.

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler is no charge software that can be [...]

iPhone 4 announced. Your move Android!

As you know, we’re not a dedicated gadget blog so we’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to check out the full gory details of Apple’s new baby over at sites such as Engadget, Gizmodo etc.

However, it’s hard to completely go past a major iPhone release, so here’s a quick summary of some [...]

Google’s PowerMeter comes to consumer devices

Google’s PowerMeter will now be available to consumers on real-time energy monitoring devices from ‘Current Cost’, the largest global supplier of such displays.

Google’s PowerMeter helps you monitor how much electricity you use to help you save money and conserve energy at the same time. The company has been actively searching for device manufacturers for some time; Current [...]

Google takes on Amazon with 'Storage for Developers'

Google has launched a new cloud storage service competing directly with Amazon’s S3. Google Storage for Developers offers scalable, high-bandwidth storage, with an easy-to-use RESTful API.

Google Storage will cost 17¢ per gigabyte per month, with uploads costing 10¢ per gigabyte and 15-30¢ per gigabyte for downloads. Initially, Google Storage will only be available to a limited [...]