Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'Google'
The Gmail Outage and Cloud Computing
We don't have much more to add to Feeling Lucky's take on yesterday's Gmail crash over at our sister site The Big Money: "As hair-pulling promptly commences throughout the country, cloud computing's reputation takes yet another hit." We'd only add...
What You Should Be Reading
Dog days, etc. Here's what to read in between naps. Protect ya' neck! Think intellectual property protection is unimportant for small businesses? Think again. [NYT] Protect ya' data. Some cheap and easy solutions. [Entrepreneur] Apple vs. Google. The battleground? Smartphone...
Going Cloud
Google has received much attention for its new ad campaign for its suite of cloud-based software, Google Apps. It is urging customers to "Go Google"--to switch over to these applications to conduct their business. Switch over from what? Well,...
Microsoft Enters The Cloud
Big news on the cloud computing front: none other than the behemoth of the software industry, Microsoft, has announced that its new version of its hyper-dominant Office software suite will be linked to the Internet. By the end of this...
Cloud Computing Enters Its Adolescence
Two separate articles examine what might be termed cloud computing's messy early adolescence and how small businesses ought to respond. (For more of our take on cloud computing--we're big fans! particularly for small businesses--see here.) Both articles suggest there is...
Microsoft Word, Google Docs...and Zoho Writer?
We at BizBox are, of course, devoted to looking out for and celebrating small businesses. Additionally, we have long held that one way small businesses can level the playing field, which in many ways tilts towards larger firms, is...
How's Your Google?
Last week we talked about LinkedIn, and how that business-to-business social networking site can help you get customers thrown your way. But even the most expansive social networking site has about an ounce of the reach that the Internet ocean...
Why Aren't You Designing iPhone Apps?
Take a look at our coverage of Apple's iPhone: quite a lot for a site concerned with small business owners, right? Certainly Apple is no small business. But the reason we cover it so closely, as well as its...
facebook Pulls An Apple
We've generally focused on smartphones and applications for them as the prime ground for eager start-ups. But for a very similar platform, one should not at all ignore facebook, the massive social-networking Website. We should not ignore it because...
Is Apple Blocking Google Voice?
NOTE: GOOGLE VOICE IS NOW OBTAINABLE FROM THE IPHONE APP STORE, WHICH IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE ORIGINAL POST. THAT SAID, THE LARGER POINT, ABOUT APPLE'S SECRECY AND BIZARRE CAPRICIOUSNESS IN TERMS OF APP STORE APPROVAL, STILL VERY MUCH...
Gmail: Ultra-Reliable, Not Reliable Enough
We are huge fans of cloud computing: the use of software that lets you do your business in the "cloud," such that your data exist (securely, ideally!) not on relatively inaccessible hardware but on the Internet--in the "cloud"--in a...
Apple Lets Google Get Away With A Kill (Switch)
We've been praising Google for promising to make the application store for its new Android mobile-phone operating system--whose first active phone, the G1, drops tomorrow--as open-source as possible. This distinguishes Google and Android from its main hip smartphone rival,...
The iPhone App Store: Backlash to the Backlash
We've pretty steadily followed the conventional wisdom regarding comparisons between Apple's extremely closed iPhone app store, especially when compared to Google's promised mostly open Android app store. This is an important topic, as the app stores are wonderful start-up...
The iPhone and the Android: Vive La Difference!
It really couldn't be more stark, and couldn't have been illustrated more starkly yesterday: the difference between Apple's attitude towards the legions of software developers looking to build their own products and start-ups upon the iPhone's formidable platform, and...
The Apple App Store and its Discontents
We present a cautionary tale for developers of iPhone applications--which in the past we have encouraged as savvy start-up entrepreneurs. Via the New York Times's Bits blog, there is the story of one developer, Alex Sokirynsky, whose Podcaster app...
Google Chrome: For All Your Browsing (And Other) Needs
If you haven't checked a computer over the past several days, then you may not have heard of Chrome, Google's new Web browser, which the search giant has built to compete with the big guns: The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox...
Google To Open App Floodgates For New Phones
We wrote earlier this week about the iFund, a venture capital group looking to invest in start-ups that make applications for Apple's iPhone. Noting the potential for young companies that Apple is providing, we further observed that such opportunities...
The Privacy Hazards of Web 2.0
We've written of our love of so-called cloud computing, and of Google's wonderful, if still somewhat primitive, suite of cloud computing software such as Google Docs. But the danger in cloud computing is that you and your company's information...
The iPhone's Platform For Small Businesses
The New York Times has a report today on the so-called iFund, a $100 million venture capital project whose goal is to invest in start-ups that make applications for Apple's immensely popular iPhone. The idea is to invest somewhere...
The Perils of Being Bought
More than a few entrepreneurs start out new businesses with at least one eye on eventually, somewhere down the road, selling to a bigger fish; and for the luckiest among them, a buyer comes along who both pays a...
Is Web 2.0 All That Different From Web 1.0?
Greg Verdino, one of our favorite bloggers, has a really provocative post up arguing that all the hype surrounding Web 2.0 in terms of improving social networking is somewhat overblown. In fact, his innovative, and somewhat revisionist, take is...
The Downsides of Google
We've been such cloud computing and Google triumphalists recently that the interests of fairness behoove us to supply a counter-example. Gizmodo runs the positively Kafka-esque story of a Google customer named Nick--a customer who, unlike most, has actually paid...
In Praise of Gmail
We came across this paean to Gmail, Google's entirely-online email server, by a ReadWriteWeb columnist, and we can only second what he says about Gmail's Spam-stopping, search function (it is Google, after all!), and mobility. We'd add that its...
How Small Tech Start-Ups (And You!) Can Get Even Smaller
There was a fascinating article published yesterday on our partner site, Slate, about the new world of tech start-ups. Takeaway: innovations in open-source software, cloud computing, and other things that may be broadly grouped under the "Web 2.0" rubric...
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