Ars Technica has a great writeup comparing four leading web office suites:

Between the two, I'd have to recommend Google over Zoho because of its features and pricing—the entire Google Apps package only costs slightly more than Zoho Docs by itself, and its more varied and robust options for importing users from your existing domain (and staying synced with your domain afterward) will greatly simplify the migration process.

One of many interesting comments on the article, lieutenantmudd says:

It's best to think of Office documents as a business-to-business network protocol. There are plenty of alternatives to the protocol, but only Microsoft products implement the protocol perfectly.

Good info all around.

Vulnerabilities have been discovered and privately reported to Microsoft regarding their Remote Desktop Protocol. The pervasive use of RDP amongst enterprise and home users creates a situation wherein we could see debilitating worms a la SQL Slammer.

In a recent blog post Microsoft confirmed:

we expect to see working exploit code developed within the next 30 days

This issue is potentially reachable over the network by an attacker before authentication is required. RDP is commonly allowed through firewalls due to its utility. The service runs in kernel-mode as SYSTEM by default on nearly all platforms (except for one exception described below). During our investigation, we determined that this vulnerability is directly exploitable for code execution. Developing a working exploit will not be trivial – we would be surprised to see one developed in the next few days. However, we expect to see working exploit code developed within the next 30 days.

Additionally, they reiterate that special priority and attention should be given to this specific update.

As always, ensure your systems are updated and patched. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/index.html?path=Mac/

It looks like flags are out and trapezoids are in.

Worldwide Desktop Browser Market Share (%)

From iWatchNews.org

What makes this so profound? Google Voice truly shines when and only when calls or texts come in to the actual GV number. iPhone users really haven't been able to leverage GV as outbound calls and texts showed the wireless number.

Why was that problematic? Because responses to those calls and texts were direct to the iPhone; effectively leaving GV out of the loop.

No longer. Sprint's long standing relationship with Google an established ability to import your GV phone number (or visa versa) plus ir's newfound relationship with Apple mean the puzzle is complete. Texts dictated to And sent with Siri come from the GV number. Tapping a contact instantly dials and the recipient sees th call coming from the GV number. Conversations can be started hands free via Siri in the car, resumed quietly in a meeting while by tapping on the phone, and then finalized back at the computer from google.com/voice. It feels a bit futuristic.

One unexpected side effect: For good or bad, we are locked into Sprint until other carriers figure this out.

One unexpected oddity: This only seems to week on individual accounts -- neither family nor corporate.

We've been controlling our Windows and OS X machines from iOS devices for quite some time now. Good apps continue to pop up in the App Store on a regular basis. After trying them all we're comfortable declaring one of the originals, LogMeIn Ignition (app link), the winner.

Here's why:

1. It's fast. Whether you are controlling your workstation over a 3G connection from the train or WLAN from the couch, clicks and apps are responsive.

the one-time $30 proves to be a bargain

2. The control scheme is unmatched. Some apps attempt to supplant the absent keyboard and mouse with a helper cursor or awkward gestures. After a couple minutes of use you'll see how masterfully the Ignition team leverages iPad/iPhone multi touch to craft a truly usable interface.
3. It's cheap. At $30 many of the competing apps require less upfront. However, after you add up the +$100 to use GoToMyPC (for example) each year the one-time $30 proves to be a bargain

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Mavicor is progressing towards compliance with an eye on Q4.