Microsoft Office is still by far the dominant player when it comes to desktop productivity applications. But Google is pushing hard to give the software king a run for its money by offering its cloud-based Google Apps suite as a worthy alternative. Already, relative newcomer Google said it has two million business customers for Google [...]

With rivals like Google, Zoho and others gaining traction in the online apps space, Microsoft is now unleashing its own Web-based productivity suite. Office Web Apps is available to users of Microsoft Office 2010, which is currently shipping for volume-licensing customers and is poised to ship next month for consumers. Owning Microsoft Office 2010 isnt [...]

IDG News Service Organizations that use the Google Apps hosted collaboration and communication suite and that have employees in mainland China should monitor closely the availability of the suites applications, the company warned. After Google stopped censoring search results in China on Monday by redirecting Google. cn users to the companys Hong Kong search engine, [...]

Google just ratcheted up the competition against Microsoft for enterprise customers. With the new Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, Google is attempting to woo businesses into the cloud with a server-side tool that facilitates the migration of e-mail, calendar and contact information away from Microsofts stalwart offering. Small Business Computing has the details about Googles [...]

In a progressive growth that seems likely to stir a firestorm of controversy, researchers related Thursday that they have used genes made in the lab to appoint a synthetic species of bacteria. An organism controlled by completely manmade DNA be possible to grow and reproduce. “Were here to announce the first synthetic confined apartment,” said [...]

MUMBAI, INDIA In novel years, Indias Business Process Outsourcing BPO industry has been facing impressive competition from other South Asian nations. However, amid such competitive environment, the geographical divisions BPO sector still hold a good edge over other countries just title to availability and supply of large talent pools here. According to Caliber Points CEO, [...]

With an increasing number of applications migrating to the cloud, identity management has to adjust to this brave new world of non-dedicated servers, and Novell has done that with version 4.0 of its identity management software offering. Version 4 not only supports on-premises apps but also major on-demand a cloud-based services. Enterprise Networking Planet tells [...]

BT has announced a &bruise;78.5m investment in rolling out fibre broadband to Cornwall, potentially making the county one of the best-connected rural areas in Europe. The European Commission is adding up to a more distant £53.5m from European Regional Development ERD Convergence funds. The intention is to boost the local economy by attracting and retaining [...]

Riding the adventure IT megatrend in which “the delivery of mission-critical workloads ~ward purpose-built appliances will be a key technology in the denoting futurity of the data center,” EMC is on the verge of introducing a unaccustomed data-warehousing appliance that continues to extend the companys appreciate proposition to CIOs beyond storage, says Wells Fargo senior [...]

IDG News Service Google has created a free tool to simplify and automate the migration of e-mail, calendar and contacts data from Microsoft Exchange servers to its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite. The tool, called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, is available for free as of Wednesday to organizations that sign up [...]