Has Google Changed the Meaning of “Beta?”

Hi,
      This piece of information about the beta products google has and what is the percentage of them are beta? This is also from a blog in Utest.com.
      A recent study has shown that 49% of Google’s products are in beta.  That’s incredible, especially considering that these products include Gmail, Google Docs, and more.  So what does beta really mean to Google?  NetworkWorld asked them and found out:
      “We have very high internal metrics our consumer products have to meet before coming out of beta. Our teams continue to work to improve these products and provide users with an even better experience.  We believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web, where people expect continual improvements in a product.  On the Web, you don’t have to wait for the next version to be on the shelf or an update to become available.  Improvements are rolled out as they’re developed.  Rather than the packaged, stagnant software of decades past, we’re moving to a world of regular updates and constant feature refinement where applications live in the cloud.”
        The problem with this philosophy is that customers may not stick around long enough for a product to take off.  If it doesn’t do what they expect upon launch, then they will abandon the platform until it meets their expectations.  In many cases, they may not come back at all. To know more about this topic, Click here...

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Cisco buys open source messaging firm Jabber

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           Folks, Hopefully many of the coraporate folks know what JABBER is? It is chat tool, that the people use in IT for having chat within your LAB and may be your network for safe chat. Now, the news is CISCO is buying Jabber, the lead commercial vendor behind the popular open source XMPP (aka Jabber) protocol. Jabber is used by millions worldwide and XMPP is the basis of Google's Chat as well.A Financial terms of the deal have not yet been publicly disclosed.

    "Enterprise organizations want an extensible presence and messaging platform that can integrate with business process applications and easily adapt to their changing needs," said Doug Dennerline, Cisco senior vice president, Collaboration Software Group in a statement. "With the acquisition of Jabber, we will be able to extend the reach of our current instant messaging service and expand the capabilities of our collaboration platform. Our intention is to be the interoperability benchmark in the collaboration space." .To know more, Click here...

GaneshKB

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Google's Chrome Ups the Ante

This is an article from www.businessweek.com, i would love to share this with you lab folks...
Browser wars? On steroids. When Google (GOOG)
announced on Sept. 1 that it was releasing its own Web browser, Chrome,
the immediate buzz was that the bruising battles over browser
domination, played out between Netscape and Microsoft (MSFT) in the late 1990s, were back on.

Google, though, has much bigger ambitions. The goal, say Google execs,
is not merely to win share of an existing market, but to change the
very nature of Internet browsing—and the way we use computers. If
Chrome works as planned, it will lead much of computing from the
desktop—Microsoft's domain—toward remote data centers. These, in
Google's lingo, are known as the "cloud." Google runs the biggest and
most efficient data centers on earth, and moving much of the world's
computing from desktops into its clouds is the heart of the company's
strategy. "Google really believes the future of the Web is running
applications on the Web," says Danny Sullivan, who runs Calafia
Consulting, a Web consulting firm. "They want to be leading the
charge."

As this battle commences, Microsoft enjoys a towering head start.
Its Internet Explorer dominates the browser market, with 75% share. And
Microsoft is launching its latest upgrade, IE8, which is loaded with
new features. Google's Chrome, by contrast, appears bare-bones. Its
power, say Google engineers, will come from its ability to run
applications faster and more securely, especially those hosted outside
the PC, on the cloud. Unlike Google's top-secret search algorithms or
the proprietary software it uses to carry out its searches, Chrome was
born as an open-source system.

Asking More of Browsers

To understand what's new, think of Netscape, the browsing sensation
14 years ago at the dawn of the World Wide Web. The goal back then was
simply to open and read Web pages. This is still important, of course,
whether Web surfers are reading a story in The New York Times or checking out a friend's home page on MySpace. Most browsers today, including Mozilla Firefox and Apple's (AAPL) Safari, have grown to provide that Web browsing service.

Google, though, wants people to use browsers to do much more,
particularly to run software applications, like word processing,
spreadsheets, video editing, and conferencing. In Google's scheme, the
browser is a gateway into the clouds, one that will eventually be
tapped from anywhere—a PC, a mobile phone, perhaps even a television.
And many of the applications available in the clouds, from calendars to
e-mail, will likely compete directly with Microsoft's dominant suite of
Office applications, including Excel and Outlook. Says Google
co-founder Sergey Brin:
"What we have is a lightweight engine for running Web applications that
doesn't have the baggage of an operating system." Investors on Sept. 2
drove up Google shares nearly 2%, to 465.25.To know more, CLICK HERE...

GaneshKB

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Stop calling the specially formatted mobile websites on the iPhone applications!

Hi,
Now, I am going to talk about the one that is creating the news. It is none other that the latest rocker phones iPhone. This has really made more expectation among the youth, iPhone has mobile websites built in WebKit browser engine. The deadly rival Nokia S60 has also announced a new "Widget" for S60 that uses markup languages like AJAX,HTML. To know more about the technical stuff that says iPhone is no wonder, is present in this link...

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