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.
The online Google Spreadsheets is free, easy to use, and handy for collaboration, but stick with Excel for complex spreadsheets.
Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.
Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.
Google is bringing Google Gears to mobile phones so that people on the go can access Web-based applications even when they're not connected to the Internet.
Online security services are on the rise, and vendor Trend Micro has joined the crowd with its newest offering SecureCloud.
Microsoft will soon release a beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing, but not editing, Office documents online.
Yahoo announced a non-exclusive partnership under which rival Google will supply it with some search ads, a move that could increase Yahoo search revenue but that also gives Google even more power in the market.
Yahoo is headed for a reorganisation that, combined with an exodus of top Yahoo executives, will in all likelihood put power in dramatically fewer hands.
My rant earlier this year about the uselessness of Microsoft's ActiveSync synchronisation manager appeared to strike a chord with readers, and unfortunately that's a gong that Microsoft appears determined to keep banging.
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.
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.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I have switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google's executives said we should: speed.
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