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2009 As Told In Google Wave

By Sharafat • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Love it or hate it, Google Wave is proving to be a great way for people to express themselves creatively in the form of videos. We’ve seen it with Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting. We’ve seen it with the Declaration of Independance. And now we have a 2009 year-in-review Google Wave video.
There’s not much [...]



Google Wave : Creating Massive Ripples : Tips and Tricks

By Sumaira Bajwa • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Starting Wednesday, September 30 we’ll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to:

Developers who have been active in the developer preview we started back in June
The first users who signed up and offered to give feedback on wave.google.com
Select customers of Google Apps

We’ll ask some of these early users to nominate people [...]



Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

By Sharafat • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Technology

The numbers don’t lie
An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) basis. How can Microsoft compete?
The debate
Cloud, as in Google apps, and sand, as in locally hosted Microsoft apps, are battling [...]