May, 2010

Which browser do you prefer: Firefox or Chrome?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:45

Do initiatives like Google’s Chrome Web Store make you reconsider your choice of browser? It sure does for me.

I think I probably was one of the first to start using Firefox at the time. When I started using Firefox, Internet Explorer had a market share of 96% and Netscape –who still remembers them?– was almost a goner.

What appealed to me at the time was the attempt of everyone involved with Firefox to break the hegemony of Microsoft by making Firefox available as open source software and their strict(er) adherence to HTML standards.

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Adding users to Microsoft BPOS: a gotcha to remember

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:56

Adding a user to Microsoft BPOS is pretty simple: as an administrator you login into http://admin.emea.microsoftonline.com (if you’re using the European datacenters) and select ‘Add a User’ from the right sidebar under the Users tab.

However, there are some gotchas that you had better remember.

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Support desks sometimes like Ministry of Silly Walks

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 22:39

I had this stupid experience over the weekend: some security and support procedures immediately remind you of Monty Python’s ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’.

And what was the problem?
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Google buys Global IP Solutions: new conferencing functionalities soon?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:39

Yesterday Google announced its intentions to acquire Norwegian Global IP Solutions.

Global IP Solutions is an important player in the real-time voice and video processing software for IP networks. Their customers include IBM, Yahoo, Citrix but also Baidu from China and Mail.ru (Russia)
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Android smartphone soon router and wifi hotspot

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:16

Google keeps releasing new versions of Android at a very high pace. While Android version 2.1 is still being rolled out, a number of new functionalities in Android 2.2 (code name Froyo, “frozen yoghurt”) make us look forward to the official announcement of its availability.
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Insight and Romneya partner for cloud implementations!

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 21:07

The past months Insight and Romneya worked hard to prepare a number of activities on the Belgian market to initiate conversations with customers about cloud solutions.

This afternoon marked the launch of the campaign with a seminar on cloud computing where Microsoft, Google and Messagelabs gave their vision. Of course we were present.

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Cloud computing: 67 definitions by Simon Wardley

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 15:05

Together with Insight we are organizing today an event on cloud computing.

Speakers from Microsoft, Google and Messagelabs will be giving their vision on cloud computing. This promises to be exciting and interesting, mainly because of the differences in vision of  some of the speakers.

According to Simon Wardley, one of the people behind the Ubuntu Linux distro, cloud computing has nothing to do with products, but everything with a transition phase.

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Scoop for Google I/O: release of Google Wave for Google Apps?

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:43

Every year May is a special month for software developers that feel strongly about Google products. During this month the annual Google I/O event is being held.

During more than 80 sessions techies from all over the world get to hear the latest news from Google on Android, Google Apps Engine, GWT, Google Marketplace and much more. One of the sessions got my particular attention because its topic is the role of Google Wave and the possibilities of Google Wave in Enterprise IT.

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Other Google applications soon available in Google Apps

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 20:36

Yesterday Google published a blog post in their Enterprise blog that soon Google Apps users will be able to use other Google applications –notice the small ‘a’– such as Google Reader, Blogger, Picasa Web Albums and Adwords from within their Google Apps domain.

These applications will become available to Google Apps users in the fall when Google reorganizes some of its infrastructure.

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Handy for Google Apps admin: reset cookies on distance

Posted by Philippe Creytens at 15:12

You have probably had this happen to you: you use a browser on another computer to access Google Apps. You use the computer of a co-worker, a client’s computer or a desktop in some internet coffee shop to read mail or access your calendar but afterwards you have doubts if you closed the browser.

When using Google Apps you can now force it to close all open browser sessions from a distance.
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