Mavenlink integrates with Google Apps

Mavenlink has unveiled solutions that integrate with Google Calendar, Contacts and Docs, reports TMCnet.

Mavenlink has created an online interactive workplace (Mavenlink.com) where people can work together and conduct business, and is available in the Google Apps Marketplace.

Google Apps users will be able to manage all their work-related events, contacts and shared files from within Mavenlink's platform with the intuitive combination of Mavenlink.com with Google Calendar, Contacts and Docs.

Intuit, which has more than 300 000 customers using its online network of small business applications, has restored services that were down for almost two days, says InformationWeek.

The company's online versions of TurboTax, QuickBooks, Quicken and QuickBase were brought back online on Thursday last week. The Web applications, used mostly by small businesses, had been down since Tuesday night.

Intuit president and CEO Brad Smith apologised to customers for the outage, saying: "There is simply no excuse for having such a negative impact on you.” The service disruption occurred during a routine maintenance procedure when an accidental, but severe, power failure affected Intuit's primary and backup systems, bringing down a number of Intuit's Web sites and services.

With Office 2010, Microsoft has taken an important (and inevitable) step into Internet-stored media, writes Wired.

In addition to releasing its new native Office suite, which gives one the option to save files on the Intertubes, Microsoft has rolled out free, lightweight Web versions of Office apps accessible through Windows Live.

For the most part, this is a decent Web suite that works well with the native Office apps, though it's still a little unrefined.