Brunswick wanted to enable one anti-spam solution across all global offices and email systems; break the cycle of maintenance, upgrades, costs and hands-on management required by their on-premise solution; and make more productive use of IT resources. By installing Google Message Security the company instantly provided all users with higher-quality spam control, regardless of what…
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) will announce the acquisition of Skype, the online telephony and video communications giant, on Tuesday morning. This will be Microsoft’s most aggressive acquisition in the digital space, an $8.5 billion deal, counting in the Luxembourg-based company’s debt. Buying Skype — a service that connects millions of users around the world via Internet-based…
Hackers have discovered that Google’s rumored cloud-based music service is up and running. Members of a XDA developers’ message board found that if they installed the Honeycomb music player app on Android they could sync their music collections with Google’s servers. Those willing to install the latest build, which isn’t yet supported by Google, have…
Google released yesterday the first API upgrade for Adwords. This new release includes: The ability for agencies to run reports across clients so they can do trend comparison across clients. Better filtering, improved geo-targeting which will let agencies specify whether to target by the physical location of the viewer or by the location the person…
Google released today an expanded version of Google Cloud Connect that improves the way Microsoft users use Google apps. It enables users of Microsoft office to transfer and share documents to the cloud. Google Cloud Connect Office is an MS Office integration tool that plugs into 2003/2007/2010 MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PPT, and…
Animetrics, the developer of cloud-based web service facial biometrics, announced on February 11, 2011 the release of two new application offerings, the FaceR CredentialME™ AppLock for iPhones and FaceR CredentialME AppLock for Androids. Both application offerings are based on Animetrics patented 2D-3D FACEngine® facial recognition technology, a precise technology similar to the technology used by…
rollApp Inc. released today a free beta service that provides users with online editions of Open Office, integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox. It provides SMBs with a solution that combines all the rich functionality of traditional office suites with all the benefits of cutting-edge cloud platforms: on-demand scalability, anywhere access, no install/support pain, and reduced…
As Internet access remains cut off in Egypt amid anti-government protests, Google launched a Twitter workaround for Egyptians. A special service from Google allows people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail.. “Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of…
Cloud computing helps organizations store, manage, share, and analyze their Big Data in an affordable and easy-to-use way. Today’s cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as Microsoft, GoGrid, Amazon, Google, Rackspace and Slicehost, supported by the on-demand analytics solution vendors, make Big Data analytics very affordable. Most corporate enterprises don’t fully leverage their data. Data is…
Google Inc. announced that co-founder Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt as chief executive in a surprising management reshuffle announced with the Internet company’s fourth-quarter earnings, which jumped 29%. Schmidt said in Google’s press release that the change will “create clearer responsibility and accountability at the top of the company.” Schmidt holds 9.2 million Google shares…