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One consequence of the steady increase in computer power is that newer machines can emulate the behavior of older ones, with software running fast enough to simulate operations that formerly required hardware. Now, in an illustration of just how far Web programming has come, one coder has begun a project called jsGB that lets a [...]

Google is broadening the reach of Gmail Search with the help of a Labs tool that allows users to find e-mails and documents, the company announced on Wednesday. The Apps Search feature, which is available in Gmail Labs, provides search results from a person’s e-mail messages, as well as Google Docs. So if someone saves [...]

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 [...]

As much as we’d like to say that we can do the same thing on a mobile phone as we can on a desktop, the truth of the matter is that unless you’re toting a tablet like the iPad (and even then…), some tasks are just harder to do without some form of mobile-optimized view. [...]

Two men who led one element of Amazon’s successful cloud-computing services have launched their own a start-up called Nimbula focusing on a private version of the technology. Cloud computing takes several forms, but Amazon Web Services generally delivers building blocks available over the Internet that developers can use to construct their own higher-level services. Nimbula, [...]

Google has rolled out out a few new tweaks to its Google Docs platform to give people greater control over how to share and collaborate on documents with their colleagues. Google Docs users will now be able to set the visibility of each document in one of three ways to determine whether and how it’s [...]

In a significant philosophical shift, Google has added a basic video editing system to YouTube, giving a new creative aspect to the video sharing site. The YouTube editor isn’t going to make Apple’s Final Cut Pro or Adobe Systems’ Premiere Pro out of business any time soon, but the tool is useful. With it, you [...]

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 [...]

The Google Docs Web-based productivity suite blossomed thanks to its virtue of efficiency. We recently got to know a tool that layers on the convenience by giving you ways to manage Google Docs from a desktop app you already use–your Outlook in-box.  By installing the free Harmony for Google Docs beta Outlook add-on, your Google [...]

Google has clearly had enough with Internet Explorer 6. As of March 1, Google will no longer support IE6 on its Google Docs and Google Sites services, it announced Friday. IE users will have to upgrade to at least version 7 if they want to use those products, as “many other companies have already stopped [...]