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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 [...] 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 [...] Google may currently be up to their what-nots in a wi-fi sniffing drama, but that’s not the only security related topic the company is being forced to address. With a big push to get enterprises to adopt Google’s Enterprise Apps suite, questions have been raised regarding security of the data, being in the ‘cloud’ as it [...] Silicon Alley Insider have published an interesting chart showing relative R&D expenditure for a number of the major tech companies. As you can see, Microsoft continues what’s been a long standing trend for them of spending big on R&D – both as an absolute number and also as a percentage of revenue. That said, both [...] 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 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 [...] With Google’s I/O 2010 event currently underway, there have been a slew of new announcements from the big G (with more to come, no doubt). So far these have included: a further opening up of Google Wave, a new app store for Chrome, developer APIs for location and storage and a version of Google App Engine, targeted [...] Hotmail, aka Windows Live Hotmail, is due for a major new upgrade next week. Whilst Microsoft has made the (slowish) move to Cloudify a number of its other offerings, Hotmail hasn’t really kept pace with rivals such as Google’s Gmail. If anything, the visual makeovers to the original Hotmail only served to make it seem [...] The ‘Official Google Enterprise Blog’ had an interesting post yesterday from Matthew Glotzbach, Google’s Enterprise Product Management Director. In it, Mr Glotzbach suggested that those organisations looking to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft’s Office suite (Office 2010) might like to take a look at Google’s offerings instead. ‘Google Docs represents a real alternative for companies: [...] This week’s wrap-up of some of the stories that didn’t make it online at the time they broke: -Google launched their ‘Analytics Application Gallery‘ offering applications that extend Google Analytics. Services include those targeted at mobile, email marketing campaigns, e-commerce and more. - NetSuite and IBM announced a partnership that sees NetSuite now having the ability to [...] |
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