• Wow, the entire internet on one computer…

     

    I’ve just finished reading Google, The Inside Story in which it is told how when Google was but a research project, Sergey and Larry wanted to download the entire internet onto their laptops. They ended up failing at that…

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  • MS Office via SaaS?

     

    Seems that UK ISP Fasthosts has started offering Microsoft Office as a SaaS product. It’s not true SaaS, you have to download and install it – it’s more SaaS (subscription as a service) – still it kind of makes…

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  • The answer for Microsoft and Yahoo?

     

    Silicon Alley Insider has this excellent piece, suggesting what it sees as the best way for MS and Yahoo to combing. I have to agree that the negatives around bringing Yahoo in-house into MS outweigh any potential benefits in…

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  • Xero market update

     

    In line with its responsibilities as a publicly listed company, Xero is required to release regular market updates about it’s position. It’s most recent update was released today. The most relevant comments are pasted below (with my commentary afterwards);…

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  • Thoughts on SaaS – Is it here to stay?

     

    SearchCIO.com asked it’s readers their views on whether SaaS s a pssing fad, or if it’s here to stay. They also ask whether SaaS is yet another ASP and will go the same, unsuccesful, way. Some good responses, including…

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  • Fully featured, SaaS delivered, SME software package

     

    I’ve just come across 24sevenoffice, a European based SaaS product for SMEs. 24sevenoffice seems to have unprecedented breadth of functionality. It includes; Accounting CRM (Contacts, Lead Mgt, SFA) Web conferencing functionality (via Webex) ERP (Supply Chain, Orders, Products, Inventory)…

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  • Another avenue for SaaS: Inventory Management

     

    Thanks to Zoli for pointing this out. Yet another business area has been introduced to the SaaS concept, SmartTurn have created the first Warehouse Management System (and yet another three letter acronym – WMS). WMS seems a fairly logical…

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  • Microsoft and SaaS…

     

    The Unreasonable men posted about what the future holds for Microsoft as a SaaS player. It’s a great post, some of which I even agree with! 🙂 Part of the rationale for the UM’s point of view is a…

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  • Images lifted from MySpace private profiles….

     

    News that  a file creator has compiled a 17Gb file containing over half a million images lifted from MySpace pages. Seems some of the images were public but significant numbers where from private profiles including those of under 16…

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  • Zoho wins crunchies award…

     

    I’ve previously talked about on-demand office productivity suite Zoho. I’m impressed by their offering and consider it ahead of Google aps in terms of functionality. Good to hear about them winning the award for “Best Enterprise Start-up” at the…

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