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Time-Saving Business Apps for Google Chrome

December 30th, 2010 by Erin Posted in Business | No Comments »

I’m a big proponent of Google Chrome. It’s speedy. It’s efficient. And, I know it like the back of my hand.

While it still has a lot of catching up to do with Internet Explorer and Firefox, Google Chrome’s popularity is growing – and fast.

That said, I would bet big bucks that more businesses start using Chrome in 2011. Not all of the bells and whistles are there yet, but Chrome sure has a lot to offer. Take the Chrome Web Store for instance. The marketplace just opened, and it offers dozens and dozens of applications and extensions to suit your every need – and whim.

And, for the businesses, Chrome is teeming with some great, FREE business apps. Here are a few featured in PC World’s Business Center.

- Rainmaker

Rainmaker is able to automagically pull information about people in your Gmail address book from the web, Twitter, Linked In, and Facebook. This information includes mugshots, addresses, phone numbers, and Internet details.

- Springpad

The best way to describe Springpad is as a supercharged notebook and To Do list maker. Because it’s a cloud application, your data can be accessed from anywhere in the world, and the app is built around HTML5 so will work on the majority of modern browsers, phones and smartpads too.

- Simplebooklet

Simplebooklet is actually an online presentations tool. It fills a blindingly obvious gap in the market: creating presentations that can be viewed within a browser, and accessed via a simple URL that you share with others.

- World Time Planner

World Time Planner is a simple app that lets you click and drag a slider to see what the time will be in various cities over the next 24 hours. Daytime and nighttime symbols appear alongside each city to indicate at a glance when the working day starts and finishes.

Sure, Chrome’s apps pale in comparison to the other apps available on other browsers and operating systems. But it’s making strides. And, quite frankly, I would be hard-pressed to find anyone who has tried Chrome and didn’t stick with it.

Just like with a Mac, you won’t go back.

 Tags: business apps, chrome apps, chrome web store, google chrome, pc world

Apple iPhone 3.0 More Business Friendly

March 26th, 2009 by Erin Posted in Business | 1 Comment »

Blackberry is out. iPhone is in.

If anyone ever had any complaints about the Apple iPhone in the past – well, it’s time to take another look.

This week Apple released a beta version of its next generation software and it will no doubt heed to the newly emerged apps craze.

Aside from new peer-to-peer connectivity, turn-by-turn directions, and a much anticipated cut and paste feature, the Apple iPhone 3.0 is essentially a third-party developers dream – and could become quite the little handy device for businesses.

Right now, there are already more than 25,000 applications in the Apple App Store; buy ‘em and download ‘em just like iTunes. In an effort to fuel the craze even more, iPhone 3.0 software will include more than 1,000 new application programming interfaces.

Developers need not worry about finding work in this economy. Apple’s got them covered.

Here, though, is the real highlight of the 3.0 upgrade: business support.

Until now, it had been thought that iPhones were just cool consumer devices and inappropriate for business. Now it seems business software companies are clamoring to get in on the apps action.

Here’s a look at what some of the bigger names in business software are doing:

-Workday, a provider of hosted business software, plans to post an application on the Apple App Store that will let customers tap into their human resources and financial systems from iPhones.

-Sybase, which has already released a mobile client “in-box” for e-mail, data security, and business processes for Windows and Symbian devices, plans to post an iPhone version on the App Store next week.

-Oracle now has five apps on the App Store. It’s most successful one, for accessing Oracle business intelligence software, has been downloaded by nearly 44,000 iPhone users.

Wow! Imagine what we’ll see in future upgrades? I guess it really is okay to bring your iPhone to work.

 Tags: apple iphone, business apps, iphone 3.0, iphone business