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    Microsoft has launched an attack on Google in which it seeks to dissuade businesses from downloading Google Apps.

  • Salesforce.com Googles its CRM suite

    Salesforce.com and Google have announced they will jointly offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) applications.

  • Google finds iPhone under the Christmas tree

    On Christmas Day thousands of people opened up boxes with something cool and functional inside and wasted no time logging onto Google.com through their brand new iPhones.

  • AJAX spurs Web rebirth for desktop apps

    Slicker development techniques like AJAX, a way of building interactive browser-based applications, are fuelling a surge in consumer Web applications.

  • Suit seeks US$1 billion in damages from Google

    LimitNone, a small software development company, is seeking nearly US$1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the small company and misappropriating its trade secrets for its Google Apps online service.

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    How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?

  • Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

    A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

  • Q&A: Google's Alan Noble on the future Web

    Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.

  • Salesforce.com CEO: Microsoft is still a dinosaur

    For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.

  • Who's afraid of the $200 Linux PC?

    Cheap PCs with a Linux operating system seem to have hit the users' sweet spots, with taking the plunge into the alternate OS not nearly as hard as users had thought.

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    ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind interviews Keith Coleman, Google's Gmail product manager, about the current status of Gmail and the future of this popular Google app. Coleman also covers other Gmail issues, including the rebuild of the Javascript engine and how strongly Google feels about users' data.

  • Demo of Google apps on Salesforce

    Here's how it looks when Google applications Gmail, Docs, Talk, and Calendar operate on the Salesforce platform. The two companies announced a joint cloud computing venture at a press event in San Francisco on Monday, April 14, 2008.

Reviews (9)

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    Google Apps for Your Domain lets you brand online services with your own URL, but it doesn't eat the costs of domain registration as Microsoft Office Live does.

  • Businesses to buy into Google Apps Premier Edition?

    Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.

  • Eight alternatives to Microsoft Office

    Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office? Our reviews round-up gives you the details of several popular options.

  • Google Docs

    Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.

  • Apple iPhone 3G (16GB)

    While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.

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