"People were looking for cheap e-mail at first, but now it's about collaboration, calendaring and data storage online," said Ms. Webster of IDC.
Like similar services, Google uses the OAuth standard to allow users of third-party apps (think email apps or calendaring services) to access their company data.
Mr. Goldman plans for Mailblocks to offer related services in the future, like personalized domain names, calendaring, contact list management and other personal information functions.
It runs vast data centers on cheap hardware and Linux, and delivers e-mail, calendaring, word processing and other applications over the Internet.
A something-a-day calendar (joke, word, cartoon doesn't matter. But use calendaring to continue your education).
The new software dumps information from separate accounts into a messaging and calendaring application that will make the gizmo a valuable organizer.
For example, the 2007 change to DST rules in North America required many computer systems to be upgraded, with the greatest impact on email and calendaring programs; the upgrades consumed a significant effort by corporate information technologists.
The contract will also cover billing and management information services, voice messaging, contact centres, unified communications, email, calendaring and content collaboration services.
But according to "An Exploratory Study of Personal Calendar Use," a 2008 paper from Virginia Tech, the march of electronic calendaring is swift and inevitable: "With the increased use of mobile devices, more and more calendaring tasks are performed off the desktop computer".
For my calendaring, I use two different apps.
