It's a (mostly) free and open-source mobile operating system that's made to run on all kinds of cell phones, and allow nearly anyone who can program in Java to create and distribute applications for it. In other words, Tuesday's press hoopla surrounds just the first phone to utilize Android, T-Mobile's HTC Dream; unless it's an outright failure, most cell customers can expect to see their carrier hawking an Android phone in the not-too-distant future. MORE >>

Q: How do I upload all my Microsoft Office documents from the desktop on to Google Docs? This will let you open Office documents directly in the browser bypassing Microsoft Office. Q: I was checking mails on a mobile phone and a client sent me this PowerPoint presentation as an email attachment. You’ll soon get an email back containing the link of your uploaded presentation that can be viewed in the mobile phone browser without requiring any Office viewer. MORE >>

While the company has offered an API to developers since 2008, it is now finally embracing its role as a platform and is prepared to talk about how it wants to proceed with its ecosystem of 6,000 developers and 600 third-party apps and products. The conference will feature a series of interviews with people, including: Gordon Bell, a principal researcher at Microsoft working on life logging and cloud computing whose ideas helped inspire Evernote. MORE >>

Billion Industry By 2013 Written by Sarah Perez / April 20, 2008 9:01 PM / 28 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 In addition, for-pay services, like those from BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Awareness, NewsGator Technologies, and Six Apart will factor in. In 2008, firms with 1000 employees or more will spend $764 million on Web 2.0 MORE >>

Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta « Analytics: Key To Understanding Social Media | Main | Augmenting Search Via Tags & Bookmarks » February 20, 2008 Microsoft UC (OCS) Presentations and Demos Via a post from Eileen Brown who cites a valuable collection of UC resources (including a plug for Interact08 ). MORE >>