Google has recently introduced its Java based mobile application to check mails on your mobile phone. This was something which came quite as a surprise to many a search engine market analysts and google fans like me.
Earlier it used to take a helluva lot of time to load gmail in my mobile. And it was kinda lengthy procedure to reply to or forward mails but the new app has made my life REAL easy. :-)
I downloaded the 113KB application from my mobile, installed it and lo... a sleek cool interface appeared on my mobile's screen... I could easily access all the options (reply, delete, forward, report as spam etc..) for my mails and that too with shortcut keys.
Earlier I think only few options were available and it used to take ages to load the inbox but now it’s like, Zap!! way too fast... :-)
Kudos to the Google team for coming up with this handy tool for guys like us who are always on the move :-)
With all the recent moves of Google that include acquisition of YouTube and JotSpot, launch of this new mobile application, the executives working for its arch competitors Yahoo and MSN must surely be getting jitters and sleepless nights!
Wad'ya say, guys? ;-)
Tags: Google, Gmail, Mobile, Mobile Application, Search Engine, MSN, Yahoo, Sleep, Java,
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Google buys JotSpot
Google has done it yet once again!
After having completed the acquisition of YouTube, Google has gone out and added another interesting acquisition to its kitty encroaching a territory dominated by Microsoft Corp till now.
The new acquisition is JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up that has virtually pioneered the market for collaborative business software like online spreadsheets.
Three-year-old JotSpot had developed a series of online productivity software programs that offer many of the functions of Microsoft Office programs like Microsoft Word or Excel spreadsheets. But instead of running on individual computers, JotSpot applications are delivered as Web-based services.
Following the lead of companies like JotSpot, Mountain View, California-based Google entered the market this year by acquiring the Writely word processor and introducing other Web-based applications such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar.
JotSpot's programs run on collaborative wiki software, a flexible form of Web publishing for groups that allows any approved user to edit or change individual documents. The idea for JotSpot grew out of using a wiki to brainstorm about potential ideas for founding a company, Kraus recalled.
JotSpot has attracted 2,000 companies to use its software. It counts 30,000 paying customers and about 300,000 free users of its Web software tools. Kraus said his company would continue to support existing customers during the transition.
With this new acquisition, Google has strengthened its portfolio yet again and has dded to the headaches to Yahoo and MSN! What do you say, fellas? ;-)
Tags: Google, YouTube, JotSpot, Wiki, Microsoft, Yahoo, MSN, Business, Technology
After having completed the acquisition of YouTube, Google has gone out and added another interesting acquisition to its kitty encroaching a territory dominated by Microsoft Corp till now.
The new acquisition is JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up that has virtually pioneered the market for collaborative business software like online spreadsheets.
Three-year-old JotSpot had developed a series of online productivity software programs that offer many of the functions of Microsoft Office programs like Microsoft Word or Excel spreadsheets. But instead of running on individual computers, JotSpot applications are delivered as Web-based services.
Following the lead of companies like JotSpot, Mountain View, California-based Google entered the market this year by acquiring the Writely word processor and introducing other Web-based applications such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar.
JotSpot's programs run on collaborative wiki software, a flexible form of Web publishing for groups that allows any approved user to edit or change individual documents. The idea for JotSpot grew out of using a wiki to brainstorm about potential ideas for founding a company, Kraus recalled.
JotSpot has attracted 2,000 companies to use its software. It counts 30,000 paying customers and about 300,000 free users of its Web software tools. Kraus said his company would continue to support existing customers during the transition.
With this new acquisition, Google has strengthened its portfolio yet again and has dded to the headaches to Yahoo and MSN! What do you say, fellas? ;-)
Tags: Google, YouTube, JotSpot, Wiki, Microsoft, Yahoo, MSN, Business, Technology
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