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With a single new feature added to its online word processor yesterday, Google has diminished many concerns I had about taking the cloud-computing plunge a few months ago. That feature, autocorrect in Google Docs, fixes common typos such as converting “teh” into “the.” In and of itself, it’s not a game-changer. But it carried outsized [...]

Google and the U.S. government are headed for a legal showdown, but on different sides of the courtroom than one might expect. Eric Goldman, a law professor with Santa Clara University who closely follows the tech industry, spotted a lawsuit filed by Google against the federal government claiming that the U.S. Department of the Interior [...]

When it comes to cloud-based email, there are four major vendors vying for your IT dollars: Microsoft, Google, IBM, and http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/ “>Cisco Systems. Each has its pros and cons, but no matter which vendor you choose the price of email will be roughly the same: $5 per user per month. Google singlehandedly “repriced the business [...]

CRM (customer relationship management) software has established a significant foothold on Google’s Apps Marketplace since its launch in March, according to an official blog post this week. The post lists 13 CRM applications that can be installed on a Google Apps domain. Some offerings are for general-purpose CRM, focusing on the sales cycle and customer [...]

JackBe is applying the app store concept to its own products for building enterprise mashups, applications that pull together data from various systems. The capability is part of JackBe Presto 3.0, which was announced Wednesday. Users can look up, share, and rate mashups. [ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter [...]

Microsoft took another shot at rival Google today as it touted the support it provides for Office 2010. In a blog post Monday, Barbara Gordon, who heads Microsoft’s customer service and support, argued that her company’s offerings beat Google’s hands down. [ Microsoft's sniping is the latest shot in the ongoing Google-Microsoft battle. ] “The [...]

Google will make its Wave collaboration and communication tool available to anyone who wants to try it out on Wednesday at its I/O developer conference. The announcement should dispel conjecture that Wave, which generated a lot of buzz when it was unveiled as an early-stage product at last year’s I/O, would never be released widely [...]

Microsoft has gone on the counterattack against Google, saying that its rival’s online applications don’t cut it as supplements to Microsoft Office. In a lengthy blog post, Alex Payne, director of Microsoft’s online product management team, took on a recent Google sales pitch, which urged Office users to put off upgrading to the new Office [...]

In the business battle to rule the enterprise office suite of the future, Microsoft and Google both must overcome significant problems. On Google’s side, despite the Google Apps price advantage and Google’s announcement that 2 million companies are now using Google Apps, various research data still shows Google is losing out in the enterprise. Google [...]

Google Apps administrators will be able later this year to add to their domains Google applications that aren’t officially part of the hosted communications and collaboration suite, the company announced Thursday. While Google Apps includes Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, and other components, there are many Google applications that aren’t in the suite, like the blog [...]