IBM’s arrival in mailing services with lower rate may affect the market of Gmail and Internet Explorer.

IBM on Monday is likely to release its first Web-based e-mail offering, an enterprise-focused addition, called as ‘LotusLive iNotes’. The service will let users to pick their domain name and will debut at $3 per month, a price aimed directly at undercutting Google’s $50 per year and the $10 to $12 per month that Microsoft charges for its Webmail services. Though Microsoft offers one version of Webmail for $2 a month, IBM says that it would offer one gigabyte of storage, twice the amount of Webmail.

According to Google, although IBM is targeting business with the catchily titled LotusLive iNotes, it could well have a knock on effect for consumers. LotusLive iNotes will target to cash in on IBM’s reputation as a trusted outsourcer to show that it can do better. Sean Poulley, IBM’s Vice President of Online Collaboration Services said, “We run the world’s most mission critical systems for banks, telcos and utilities.” The service will cost $36 per user, which is around 25 percent less than Google enterprise offering.

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Google Microsoft rivalry has just got fiercer. Search giant Google is once again ready to take on Microsoft with its new operating system. The company announced Google Chrome OS on its blog this week, saying that the lower-end PCs called Netbooks from unnamed manufacturers will include it in the second half of 2010. A high-stakes duel between the two technology powerhouses has been steadily escalating in recent years as Google’s dominance of the Internet’s lucrative search market has given it the means to threaten Microsoft in ways that few other companies can. Google already has rankled Microsoft by luring away some of its top employees and developing an online suite of computer programmes that provide an alternative to Microsoft’s top-selling word processing, spreadsheet and calendar applications. With Chrome OS, Google attempts to wrest away Microsoft Corp’s long-running control over people’s desktop. Here’s looking further what is Google’s OS all about. Open source

The new Google Chrome Operating System will be an open source, meaning the programme code will be open to developers. The operating system will run in a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel — computer coding that has been the foundation for the open-source software movement for nearly two decades. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using users favourite web technologies. And these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform. Announcing Google Chrome OS, Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management and Linus Upson, Google’s engineering director said it would be “our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” No, it’s not Android It’s surely open source, but it’s not Android. As Pichai and Upson wrote on Google’s official blog, “Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.” Google has already introduced an operating system for mobile devices, called Android that vies against various other systems, including ones made by Microsoft and Apple Inc. Free? Analysts expect Google to make the new OS free, or charge at most charge a nominal fee. They believe that the company’s traditional business model has been to earn revenue off connecting applications or advertising. Betting on Netbook success The search giant initially aims to install the new system on small, low-cost computers popularly known as Netbooks. These slimmed down laptops are currently giving which are currently outselling more powerful personal computers. Google said that it believed the software would eventually be used on PCs as well. The power of 3S Google is touting the 3S of the new OS: speed, simplicity and security. According to Google, the OS is fast and lightweight to start up and get onto the web in a few seconds. As Pichai and Upson wrote in the blogpost, “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web.” Just like the Chrome browser, Google lays special emphasis on OS’ security. The search giant has completely redesigned the underlying security architecture of the OS. To support all Web standards Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. The OS will support all Web-based standards. Google is talking to manufacturers and hopes to have netbooks in the market in the second half of 2010. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using web technologies. These apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any

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Google Inc is dropping the “beta,” or test, label from its Gmail email service and other online programmes to attract business cu stomers away from Microsoft Corp. The label will also be removed from Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk, said Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise. Google used the label to show it was still improving the software. Removing the label lets Google target companies that have concerns about the reliability of programmes that are in a test phase, Glotzbach said. Google, grappling with a slump in advertising spending, tries to sell more software to generate revenue outside of search-based ads. In the first quarter, the company had its first sequential sales drop since 2004. “I’ve had CIOs tell me that the beta label is a real problem for them because as a policy they don’t deploy beta software to their enterprise,” Glotzbach said, referring to chief information officers. Gmail has been in beta since it was introduced five years ago. Google products that have already dropped the label include the Chrome Web browser, unveiled last September. Google Scholar, which lets users search for scholarly papers, is in beta, as is its product search. The Mountain View, California-based company’s shares have climbed 29 percent this year. Google’s business software provides more support and services than its consumer versions. The programmes are accessed through the Web, just as its search engine is. A package that includes Gmail, calendar, spreadsheets, word processing and other services costs $50 a year per user for business customers. Customers include Genentech Inc, a unit of pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG, and Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc.

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The latest version of mozilla firefox fails to meet the expectations of the loyal users. When tested on Dell XPS m1210 with 2.5 GB of ram core 2 duo 1.83 Ghz CPU firefox 3.5 took 7 seconds to startup While chrome took just 2.64 seconds.
No significant changes have been made in the user interface except for the new tab quick launch icon which was already there in crome right from its first version.
Bookmarks management is same and no shortcuts have been provided as seen in chrome 2.0. Firefox 3.5 is not compatible with Google Gears and some other addons. Firefox runs as a single process but chrome runs a separate process for each tab despite that Firefox uses more memory than chrome.

This is just about our first feel and this post will be updated as and when we find something new.

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