Posts Tagged with ‘productivity’

For those who have been longing to somehow access desktop Microsoft Office documents online through Google Docs, there is now a new service known as DocSyncer, which does just that.
Currently available as a public beta, DocSyncer offers users the ability to synchronize their Office files with a Google Docs account. In just a few steps, anyone can begin having the documents on their computer automatically uploaded (and periodically updated) to their online Google Docs accounts, to be accessed from any [...]

MyQuire is launching an anesthetic for project management at DEMOfall 07. This online tool is designed to provide effective project management capability for all users - not just professionals. There are a score of project tools out there but none that really suit the masses. MyQuire allows users to work the way they naturally do rather than via the constraints and discipline of most tools. This intuitive tool bridges the space between social entertainment and collective productivity. MyQuire provides an [...]

Google Apps has been presenting more and more of a threat to the Microsoft Office suite, and Microsoft is well aware although their recent actions are what I would consider lame.
Google is not wasting any time in providing one feature that Office provides, but Google Apps currently lacks. Presentations.
PowerPoint has long been the standard for creating slideshow presentations, but Google is directly targeting this software's market with a new web-based presentation application, known as Presently.
The Enquirer has reported today that [...]

Just yesterday, the big news was that Google had announced a partnership with IT firm CapGemini in an effort to expand the use of Google Apps in enterprise environments.
This, of course, brought Google even closer to rivaling Microsoft's Office suite, which has now spurred a reaction from the Redmond software giant.
No, its not new software or updates for the popular productivity suite, but rather Microsoft's own reasoning on why businesses should NOT use Google Apps.
Microsoft has stated that [...]

Isn't the idea behind Facebook to make your social life more vibrant and increase your productivity? Apparently, big business begs to differ, as the UK-based Telegraph has reported that “more than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears that staff are wasting time on them when they should be working.”
This comes after the news that Australia-based Telstra has banned Facebook access to its 49,000 employees.
The problem with workplace use [...]

Facebook was originally designed around college students, and college students spend a lot of time studying and doing homework, correct? Perhaps that is the reason that Zoho, the masterminds behind online applications such as Writer (word processing), Sheet (spreadsheets) and Show (presentations), decided to make use of the new Facebook API to bring these very programs to the world of Facebook.
Zoho has an entire line of office productivity applications available at its home page, but Writer, Sheet and Show [...]