Your office “onlife” - today or tomorrow’s reality?

Cnet most recently wrote about many office applications, such as Excel,Word, and Powerpoint, being moved online. Of course, there’s Google docs, but the functionalities are restricted - most of us actually need more than 600 lines in Excel.
So the following companies were highlighted:
- Thinkfree delivers all the usual features (toolbar, ruler, an interface you’re used [...]

Google’s Android Market Economics 101

 
Google will hand over 70 percent of revenues to developers when its Android Market virtual storefront begins offering premium mobile applications in the first quarter of 2009. Equally noteworthy, the web services giant will allot the remaining 30 percent to operators and billing settlement fees, taking no cut for itself. Writing on the Android Developers [...]

T-Mobile’s Android-based G1 goes on sale

October 22, 2008 (IDG News Service) The first cell phone based onGoogle Inc.’s Android platform went on sale Tuesday evening in San Francisco ahead of the start of sales across the U.S. today.
T-Mobile USA Inc. began offering the G1, made by Taiwan’s HTC Corp., at its store on the city’s Market Street at 6 p.m. The launch attracted a [...]

FCC Voting on “White-Space” on Nov.4

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is seeking an Election Day vote by the commission on white-space, bringing to a head a long-running debate over whether white-space should be used for unlicensed wireless applications.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, at a news conference Wednesday afternoon, said he was going to circulate a report to his fellow [...]

How to explain Opensocial

How to explain OpenSocial to Your Executives
by Jeremiah Owyang
November 6, 2007
After Google’s announcement of OpenSocial—”OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs [application programming interfaces] for social applications across multiple Websites”—many people are talking about it at the developer, strategist, and marketing level. I’m going to take it up for another audience—your boss. Feel free to [...]

MySpace Joins OpenSocial

MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that [...]