Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Couples bet the franchise on love
- JotSpot Users Give Google Mixed Reviews
- Microsoft first – then Google wants world domination

Couples bet the franchise on love
Providence Journal – Feb 25, 2007
— Sure they have to make payroll, stock their shops, keep expenditures in check, and juggle the kids’ schedules. But for John Sedlacek, the bigger challenge of running businesses with his wife, Kim, is carving out “couple time” that doesn’t involve talking about the hair salons they own, their rental properties or their self-storage company. “It’s tough to block out that additional time for one another,” says John Sedlacek, who with his wife owns two Fantastic Sams hair salon franchises. “I can’t tell when the last time I was out to dinner and a movie with her. I think we saw Titanic, or something like that. ”Despite 41 percent of U.

JotSpot Users Give Google Mixed Reviews
PC World – Feb 25, 2007
, in Culver City, California. Google declined to answer questions for this story but provided via e-mail a statement saying that while it would make sense to integrate JotSpot into current products, “we have no plans to share just yet. ” The JotSpot team is focused on moving the service to the Google infrastructure “to take advantage of greater reliability and scalability” and eager to provide customers with updates about JotSpot “as soon as possible,” the statement reads. Google acquired JotSpot in October of last year, saying that the wiki technology was “a strong fit” with the Google Groups discussion forum and with the Google Apps suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications. Wikis, which are Web sites that multiple users can edit, have become popular collaboration tools in workplaces. JotSpot, founded in 2004, allows people to design wikis with visual tools, without needing programming knowledge. JotSpot wikis can have multiple applications and components in them, such as spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries…
com on the JotSpot platform and launched it in early 2006. Since the Google acquisition, the site suffers about two hours of downtime per week. Because of this months-long situation the company is considering migrating the site to another platform, said Brennan, who otherwise raves about JotSpot, calling it a “phenomenal” product. com, which gets anywhere between 5,000 and 20,000 visitors per day, generates revenue from advertising, so if it’s unavailable, Mandalan loses money. Mandalan generates about 10 percent of its total revenue from Strmz.

Microsoft first – then Google wants world domination
Guardian Unlimited – Feb 25, 2007
want a $64 trillion question? Well, here it is: what is Google up to? I don’t mean what is it doing in public; I mean what is the company really up to?The simple-minded answer is that it’s going after Microsoft. After all, this week Google announced that it was bundling its ‘data in the cloud’ applications (email, instant messaging, calendar, word processing, spreadsheets) in a commercial package called ‘Google Apps Premier Edition’, which will sell for $50 per annum and comes with 10GB of storage per user, application programming interfaces to enable data migration, technical support and a guarantee of 99. 9 per cent availability. It’s basically an online Office suite and is targeted at small businesses, schools, universities, clubs and social groups. Google executives went to great pains to pooh-pooh the idea that they were targeting Microsoft Office…
You may have noticed in the last six months how YouTube has transformed computers into a natural platform for watching video. And this is just the beginning. We’re moving towards a world in which a significant amount of television programming will be delivered via the internet. Indeed, you could say that we’re almost there already: it’s been estimated, for example, that half of all internet traffic is now generated by BitTorrent, a file-sharing application that is being used mainly to transfer video files (many of them illicit) over the network. But BitTorrent is a minority sport. Most people have never heard of it. What will happen, however, when getting hold of video via the net becomes a mainstream activity?The answer is that the network, in its current form, won’t be able to cope.