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hyperofficelogo HyperOffice Launches Beta HyperSynch Service For Mobile Email HyperOffice has launched HyperSynch, a new service built into  HyperOffice Collaboration Suite which brings very e benefits in a market which already has MobileMe, BES and MS Exchange, and would especially appeal growing businesses.

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Google Apps Launches Third Party Marketplace

by Kevin Tea on March 11, 2010

googleappsmarket Google Apps Launches Third Party MarketplaceWith more than 25 million individuals and two million enterprises utilising Google Apps for their business needs Google has opened its own marketplace to offer third party software and services that can integrate with its Apps portfolio. Taking a leaf out of the likes of the i{Phone Apps store Google is allowing independent developers to sell their goods through the Google Apps Marketplace with Google keeping just 20% of the price leaving the developers with 80% for selling to an almost captive market.
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New To Social Media? Get A Cheat Sheet

by Kevin Tea on March 10, 2010

If you are new to social media and are wondering  what service suits your needs, help is at hand.  Drew McLellan at Drew’s Marketing Minute has created a colour coded, easy to read chart that covers what sites are best or worse for:

  • Customer communication
  • Brand exposure
  • Driving traffic to your site
  • SEO

cmoguide New To Social Media? Get A Cheat Sheet

It acts like a sort of cheat sheet and ranks the most popular/used social media sites (from the biggies like Facebook and Digg to the less talked about Reddit and del.icio.us) as good, okay or bad for the four goals above.

You can download the full sized PDF chart at Drew McLellan’s web site.

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csalogo thumb Cloud Security Alliance Highlights Top Threats To Cloud Computing A new report commissioned by Hewlett Packard on behalf of the Cloud Security Alliance has revealed – or highlighted – the major challenges facing the adoption of cloud computing technologies. The peer-reviewed research paper, entitled “Top Threats to Cloud Computing Report,” is the result of a broad examination of information security experts across 29 enterprises, solution providers, and consulting firms exposed to some of the world’s most demanding and complex cloud environments.

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Balmer Nails Microsoft’s Colours To The Cloud

by Kevin Tea March 8, 2010

For a company that once turned up its nose at the very thought of the Internet Microsoft is doing a remarkable job of catching up on lost time. Recently I reviewed the company’s cloud based offering – Office Live – and commented on how seamlessly  it merged the webside application with the desktop version. Now [...]

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Twitterfall The Tool For Twitter-Based Research

by Kevin Tea March 7, 2010

Following on from an earlier post about which tools you can use to fully utilise Twitter as part of your social media branding, here I want to look at how you can use Twitter for research. By research I mean you can look at your field of expertise, what your competitors are up to, [...]

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News Round-up – What’s Hot, What’s Not

by Kevin Tea March 5, 2010

Giving Up The Ghost
Some months ago I wrote about webtops, applications that created your desktop in the cloud so you could access it from any PC. One of those featured was Ghost which has had to shut down as it was not financially viable. IN an email to users the company explained:
“We hope you have [...]

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This Is My Tiger Woods Moment – I have Dropped Dropbox For SugarSync

by Kevin Tea March 3, 2010

OMG, I finally went and did it. I never considered I would and I never thought I would have to “fess up” in public, but now that time has come. It’s that Tiger Woods moment. Deep breath. I have given up on Dropbox and signed up with SugarSync. There, I have come clean. It [...]

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raramuridesign Opts For DeskAway For Project Management

by Kevin Tea March 2, 2010

To assist newcomers to the cloud computing arena Web2 and More is running a series of case studies featuring how companies use the technology in a real life business environment. Our second case study comes from DeskAway. Today we feature  raramuridesign.
Matthew Philogene,
Owner.
raramuridesign is an established web design/web development company that focuses [...]

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Don’t Be Afraid Of Twitter – Tools To Beat The Bird Into Submission

by Kevin Tea March 1, 2010

As a self employed individual or owner of a small to medium sized enterprise you have probably read somewhere about the power of social media, including Twitter, a micro-blogging service not dissimilar to sending texts with a limited number of characters. Twitter has received a bad press in some areas, mainly because [...]

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