And now, Zoho has opened themselves up to an SQL database. You can now:

• Use SQL to interact with your business data stored across Zoho services
• Use any major SQL dialect (ANSI, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL and more)
• Support for JDBC and ODBC drivers for transparent and easy connectivity
• Implement in both traditional in house software and hosted/SaaS (Software as a Service) applications

Essentially, you can now access your business data stored on the zoho cloud through an SQL database, which means that your data will rarely be unreachable and Zoho shouldn’t go down. Shouldn’t.

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Zoho Goes to the Cloud

1. Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support
2. Alfresco Surf Platform
3. Alfresco Share
4. Alfresco Repository API

This new Alfresco Labs 3 will help you build collaborative websites and dynamic web applications. You can see more details at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3.

John Newton cited in his blog, “We believe that the Enterprise Content Management market is evolving from specialized software for information intensive activities to become a major component of business and infrastructure for knowledge workers. Although over 90% of the Fortune 1000 have at least one type of ECM system, less than 10% of the employees in most of these companies use ECM, despite the huge increase in regulatory compliance and information explosion. Microsoft SharePoint, through its hooks to Microsoft Office, has made significant inroads into this yawning gap in the ECM market, and growing at 35% per annum as a result. We believe that open source has an even greater opportunity to reach into this portion of the market through its ubiquitous internet reach. With Alfresco Labs 3, our opportunity is to provide an alternative to, provide interoperability with, and be complementary to Microsoft SharePoint.”

For screenshots please visit his blog at http://newton.typepad.com/content/2008/07/introducing-alf.html

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Alfresco Labs 3 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Support

So, I gave the new template a try. Here’s a demo using the template.

These templates is delivered in conjunction with Avery Dennison, Vertex42.com, TemplateZone, and Visa Business.

[ via Google Docs Blog ]

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Google Docs comes with Template

“This new ‘Save as DAISY XML’ functionality for Microsoft Word has the potential to break down barriers for millions of visually impaired individuals around the world and enhance the experience for virtually anyone who loves to read,” said Chris Capossela, senior vice president of the Information Worker Product Management Group at Microsoft. “We are proud of our collaboration with the DAISY Consortium and Sonata Software to deliver valuable benefits for people with a visual impairment. This tool will make it easier for anyone — from a child writing to his or her grandparent, to a government agency providing vital information to its citizens — to create accessible content.”

For installation instruction, please click here.

[ via PR Newswire ]

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A Tool for the Disabled by DAISY XML

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets makes formatting and styling easy. As integrated to Google Docs edit feature, you can now create formal, fun and even attractive documents over Google Docs. From resume, letters, memo, handouts, etc… you all have the option to style it your way. The example provided below in an example of a resume.

(Image Credits: Google Docs)

Do not worry, CSS is easy to use. To enable CSS editing, please login to your Google Docs Account and open or create a new document. Go to Edit > Edit CSS to activate editing mode.

To know more about this new Google Docs feature; its uses, limitations and examples, click here.

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Styling your Google Docs with CSS

The truck provides a hands-on, interactive environment with workstations that feature Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office. LDD Consulting Inc. and Microsoft professionals will be on hand to answer technology questions and show how specific products from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and others can work together to create unified technology solutions.

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Free 2007 Microsoft Office Hands-on, Live Demos

The director of product management and marketing for Microsoft Office Live Small Business, Baris Cetinok said “Today having a professional Web site is as essential to running a small business as having business cards. By making it simple and affordable to develop and maintain a Web site, and offering user-friendly sales and marketing features, Office Live Small Business provides a one-stop shop to help small businesses easily take, promote and manage their businesses online.”

New features include:

• Store Manager
• E-mail Marketing
• adManager

Still, users can free tools like website, custom domain name and email, contact manager, document manager, workspaces and project manager. Other tools are available with an affordable price, please check here for details.

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Microsoft Office Live gets upgraded

Microsoft Office Power Point Tip – Document Themes - If you’re building a presentation and want to make a big impact on your audience, it’s worth the effort to design a visually appealing background and choose your fonts and colours carefully. Of course, we’re not all designers, so Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 lets you apply preset document themes to your slides. Now, you can focus on content.

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Tips & Tricks: Microsoft Power Point 2007 Tip – Document Themes

See the screenshot below accessing Glide Mobile over iPhone.

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Glide Mobile

Hmmm… I do not see it really, do you? Well, I expect that they will release that for public use sooner not later. It will really help of not confusing users.

Note that Google Docs’ competitor Zoho Writer, already released its offline support last year with Google Gears. Google Docs without Google Gears support yet? Seems that Google Docs Team is too slow in its development eh? Just a shame.

Click here to see related news released last week about Google Docs Offline.

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Google Docs Offline Access. When?