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My Daily Vista Rant, or Why Desktop Software is a Failed Model
Vista isn’t really that crappy – says Gizmodo this morning. Well, I won’t tell you what I think ( I’ve done my fair share), I'll just let you decide. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words…...
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SAP Does Not Do Your Laundry
I found a hilarious story @ The Daily WTF (thanks Devan for introducing me to the site) Except for the dryers being infamous for not performing their most basic task – drying –students at the Sogn...
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Microsoft’s About-Face on Windows 7: Three-App Limit on Netbooks (Perhaps)...
A few months ago I predicted Microsoft would be facing lawsuits due to the 3-app limitation of Windows 7 Starter Edition, or more precisely due to less than full disclosure on sales of netbooks...
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Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying...
The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is. Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell...
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Tapping The Clouds For Mobile Nirvana
Image via CrunchBase One of the many reasons for the success of SaaS in the desktop world is that it frees users from the restrictions put on by the OS vendors. Whether it is Apple’s OSX or...
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What I Expect From MS Office Web
I have zero interest in Microsoft Office 2010, the PC product. The last Office I bought was 2003, and I don’t need more: done installing and forever updating bloatware on several computers just to keep...
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Presentations: a Counterpoint. Think Creation, Not Just Delivery
We’ve often stated there is no such thing as the “CloudAve View”, only the views of individual authors, and we encourage debate even within our own team. The one thing we all agree in is that debate...
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Work. Online. (Zoho Employees On the Loose)
Disclaimer:Zoho is CloudAve’s Sponsor. But I can’t help having fun with this vid, originally published @ FakeOffice. Besides, it’s the weekend. CloudAve is sponsored by Salesforce.com and Workday.
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The Cloud through an App Lens
It’s clear that whatever success the iPad has (and I’m on record as saying I think it will be huge), that success is enabled by “the cloud.” There is no future for a device like the iPad were it not...
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Universal, Actionable Search: Zoho’s Improved Answer to “Where’s My Stuff?”
Search, Don’t Organize - is the Google mantra, meaning we should stop wasting time filing away information in folders, sorting, labeling it for later retrieval, when it’s so much easier to search /...
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Microsoft Word is Desktop Software. Supposedly. Then Why Does it Fail to Load...
Dave Michels’ recent post, I thought I Was So Cloud resonated well with me, since I’m experiencing the same pain regularly, even without the dramatic experience of a cashed harddisk. I’m now using 4...
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Google Push Notification For iPhone: Does It Matter For iPhone Users?
Google yesterday updated its Google Mobile app by adding push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The idea is to notify the users about new mail or calendar events through push notifications...
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Mobilize 2010: Revisiting Web Apps – Native Apps Debate
Yesterday, at Mobilize 2010, a conference organized by GigaOm on mobile technologies, there was a panel discussion on “Apps Vs Web: The Fight For The Future”, moderated by Dr. Phil Hendricks. They had...
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Google Docs Editing: My iPad Just Got More Useful
Today Google announced that document editing is now supported on your mobile browser. This means that we can now edit documents from iOS and Android devices. This move made my iPad more useful in my...
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Google Docs, Why 90% of Users Should Migrate Yesterday
Google Docs That video alone pretty much says it all. It isn’t about the word processor, or the device, it’s just about writing what you want when you want and how you want. The old legacy mindset of...
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Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not...
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC,...
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HTML5, The Enterprise Software Lingua Franca
This week not only showed the world that enterprise software can be sexy but also made it clear HTML5 is the right outfit for the sexiness. With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, we are...
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