Latest network applications news.
Mail merge feature added to Google Apps, 06/25/07: Just weeks after unveiling offline capabilities to its Google Apps collection of services, the company Monday added a mail migration feature that lets corporate users transfer existing mail to the online platform.
Enterprises embrace Web 2.0 technologies, 06/26/07: Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs and RSS feeds are taking off in the enterprise, according to a new report from advisory firm Nemertes Research.
Don’t assume application performance problems are always network-related, 06/26/07: As noted in the last newsletter, the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) of application performance issues can be quite lengthy. One of the …
Creating mashups with Kapow Mashup Server, 06/25/07: The Semantic Web is such a seductive idea: The only problem is that no matter how powerful or even how easily implemented it’s techniques and …
SpikeSource makes suite of collaboration tools available as hosted service, 06/22/07: SpikeSource, vendor led by Sun’s former head of Java, releases software-as-a-service version of collaboration tool set
HP has designs on IBM in software battle, 06/21/07: HP and IBM, both strong in many markets, set their sights on software as the category that will define their market leading positions.
How to get rid of a separator page, 06/21/07: I’m trying to help someone get rid of a separator page that only gets printed when using Microsoft Office software. Printing from the browser or notepad does not print a separator page. There is a button in the printer properties that displays a …
Analyst: Lotus Notes to keep spot in e-mail hierarchy, 06/21/07: Despite an upsurge in open-source and hosted competitors, IBM’s Lotus Notes corporate e-mail client software and Domino e-mail server is expected to maintain its second banana status behind Microsoft Outlook and Exchange through at least 2011.
Dell lets users avoid ‘bloatware’, 06/21/07: Dell Inc. is allowing its customers to decline the unwanted software applications loaded on new PCs, after hundreds of users complained about such “bloatware” on a company blog.
What makes application management so hard to do? 06/21/07: As noted in the last newsletter, application management is notably more difficult than fault management. That follows in part because when a …
Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps, 06/20/07: Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted to feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.
Report: Microsoft will change desktop search, 06/20/07: Microsoft will make changes to its desktop search program following a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice by Google, a news report said late Tuesday.
One of the Web’s ‘missing links’, 06/20/07: The legendary Ray Ozzie who was responsible for what I consider one of the most overrated applications of all time, Lotus Notes, is without doubt, a terrific …
U.K. launches online personal CO2 calculator, 06/20/07: The U.K. government has launched an online service that allows individuals and households in the country to calculate the amount of carbon emissions they produce at home and on the road.
