Cloud Computing in its simplest terms is “remotely running applications in a web browser instead of locally on your computer”. You’ve probably used it before but don’t realise it. If you’ve ever used Google Mail, Hotmail, Linked-In, Facebook or Salesforce for example, they are all Cloud based applications. Cloud computing has actually been around for…
Temporary Fix – iPhone Battery Drain after iOS 5 Upgrade
There’s been a lot of reports regarding poor battery life on iPhone’s after upgrading to iOS 5, I’ve got the problem on my 3GS, I can’t even get a full day at the moment! This fix applies to all iPhones not just the 4s, it probably applies to 3G iPads too but that’s not been…
Google Plus for Google Apps within Days
This came as a bit of a shock this morning! Google have finally announced (at the Web 2.0 conference last night) that Google+ will be available to Google Apps users “within days”. Google Apps users have been blocked from using Google+ ever since it’s been in testing, something that seemed a bit strange to Google…
Newsletter – August 2011 (Vol 3)
Click Here to view full width. In our 3rd edition we have: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility – Analysis Apple’s iOS 5 What’s the Fastest Browser? – Chrome Amazon Kindle Now Available as a Cloud App Gartner: Windows 7 on 42 percent of PCs by year’s end Special points of interest: Is RIM going to allow Android apps to run on all Blackberry devices?…
Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility – Analysis
Google will acquire Motorola for approximately $40 per share in cash, or around $12.5 billion dollars, “a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011,” according to Google’s press release. This will make it the biggest ever tech acquisition (if approved) for any of the big players…
Amazon Kindle Now Available as a Cloud App
After Apple introduced their 30% commission fee to all in-app purchases on their devices, Amazon has been trying to find a way to prevent them from taking a slice of their pie whilst also trying to make their Kindle reader as ubiquitous across as many platforms as possible. Apple have recently said that any purchases made from…
What’s the Fastest Browser? – Chrome
Real-world tests have finally confirmed what most of us thought anyway and that is from an actual and perceived speed comparison point-of-view, Google’s Chrome is the fastest browser for the Internet and Safari is the slowest of the main four. On the graph below, the blue bar represents the total page load time (i.e. after…
Preview Pane for Google Apps – gMail
Google Labs have released a preview pane for Google Apps gMail, it allows you to have an eMail preview pane open on your inbox screen that shows any email you click on (very similar to the preview pane in Outlook). To enable it: – Click on the ‘Options’ cog at the top right of your…
Newsletter – July 2011 (Vol 2)
Click Here to view full size. Inside our 2nd edition we have: Product Pricing – What’s best for SME’s? Can Google+ Compete? Microsoft Windows 8 OpenSource and Cloud Applications Domains, Websites, SEO and Social Networking – How does it help your business? Special points of interest: Google+ vs. Twitter & Facebook, can it kill two…
OpenSource/Cloud Software – A Better Alternative?
There’s been a revolution in the applications industry over the past few years, OpenSource and Cloud based applications are providing viable alternatives to established commercial software. One of the main reasons why so many people are still use commercial software such as Microsoft Office, is that they believe the only way to open a word…