Web-based desktop apps get serious
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CapgeminiÂ , a major global services provider, has just partnered with Google to enable large-scale adoption of the enterprise version of Google Apps. Capgemini will provide training, support, integration, and other services to large organizations that implement Google Apps Premier. Itâs a small but momentous event, signaling increasing enterprise interest in free Web-based apps that look and feel like Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office software.
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Web services are becoming increasingly popular for linking software programs. Now, Microsoft and some other big companies are pitching the technology as a way to manage everything from big corporate servers to mobile phones.
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InfoWorld - Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.
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WebCenter Suite lets developers use Internet tools like wikis and search to improve applications' user interface.
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Mozilla-based Netscape 7.2 improves printing and integrates instant messaging.
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Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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Mozilla's new web browser is smart, fast and user-friendly while offering a slew of advanced, customizable functions. By Michelle Delio.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is considering a new effort called the "W3C Mobile Web Initiative," that will seek to make Web access from mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants), as simple, easy and convenient as desktop Web access.
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A sampling of mashup platforms runs the gamut from established portal servers to bleeding-edge Web pure plays.
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Web applications are hot--and either destined to be the next big thing on the Web or the next bubble.
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It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. &nbsp;At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike.
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A growing set of developers is setting to work making Web browsing on a phone match the experience on a PC.
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Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate.
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Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.
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The other day I blogged  about the fact that Linux lacked any advanced desktop management tools that provided thumbnails of running programs.  The Mac has this with Expose and Windows XP has had this in the task switcher for a while now.  (Note.  Both Kompose and Expose have an accent on the 'e' but my blogging software doesn't support unicode - don't ask... )  Justin Mason was nice enough to comment about Kompose in the comments and I've been running it ever since.  Kompose  is lays out thumbnails of your running programs and lays them out on your full screen (instead in just the task switcher).  "Kompose offers a great new way to manage a big number of windows on different Virtual Desktops ...
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At this organization, IT has one hammer for all nails: a big relational database and a rigorous development process. That works well for major applications, but it's not so great for simple apps.
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In a link from Dynamically Typed today, there's a new presentation about Creating Rich Applications with Mozilla, XUL, and AMP Technology (Mozilla-based browser needed to view).