TechImpact
DECEMBER 19, 2013
Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Gmail, Yahoo!
NTEN
APRIL 22, 2010
This fantastic doc from MIT will walk you through your office to help you pinpoint places where you can do more to help Mother Earth. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Print green.
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Tech Soup
APRIL 25, 2014
As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Tablet adoption is very brisk.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 23, 2011
I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps. Surely you still need your "real" laptop to run your donated copy of Adobe Creative Suite , right? In January, Kevin reviewed the Cr-48 laptop , a Chromebook prototype. Word processing? For instant messaging, there's Meebo as well as a handful of other tools.
Tech Soup
JUNE 3, 2016
Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. For example, staff can manage vendors via Google Docs or create questionnaires via SurveyMonkey.
Tech Soup
JANUARY 17, 2012
It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. It is also well-integrated and can store documents in the cloud to several services including Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote, Huddle, and several others.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 3, 2011
He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. As a result, he finds that people in NGOs in the region are beginning to use cloud computing services like Google Docs and Hotmail , but are often not aware that those applications they are using are in the cloud, or what exactly cloud computing is.
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