by Lee Mathews on April 6, 2011 at 10:17 PM

Zoho has offered an iOS app for a while now -- at least for the iPhone and iPod touch. Those of you who have been wanting to use the Zoho app on your iPad were out of luck, but that's no longer the case.
Zoho Docs 2.0 has landed in the App Store, and the most notable change is that it's now a universal app. Now you're able to take advantage of the app's mobile productivity powers on your ...
by Lee Mathews on November 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM

Zoho -- the popular Web-based office suite -- has added another component to its customer support offerings. In addition to Zoho Assist, their Java-based remote assistance app, the company is now offering Zoho Support, a full-featured help desk application.
Support packs tons of essential features, from managing customer requests and contracts to maintaining tasks and contacts. There's also a ...
by Lee Mathews on December 2, 2009 at 09:00 AM

You've been able to sign in to and use Zoho's ever-expanding group of web apps with your Google account for quite some time. Now, they're taking things a step further. You can now side-load files into Zoho straight from your Google Docs storage. Composing an email in Zoho but need a file from your Google stash? No problem. Once you've granted access, Zoho can pluck anything from Docs without ...
by Brad Linder on November 5, 2009 at 05:30 PM

Over the past few years, Microsoft has had to contend with increasing competition from free, web-based office suites such as Google Docs and Zoho Office. And when I say contend, I mean, maybe start taking notice of. There's no doubt that MS Office is still the 800 pound gorilla in the word processing, spreadsheet, and database field. But free competitors including those online applications and ...
by Jay Hathaway on October 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Although Zoho offers a suite of apps that competes with Google Apps, there's no reason for them to let the huge Google Apps userbase slip through their fingers when it comes to project management. Zoho Projects, the planning and collaboration web app from Zoho, now integrates with Google Apps. You can now sign into Zoho Projects with your Google Apps login, and plug your Google Docs right into ...
by Brad Linder on September 22, 2009 at 09:30 AM
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Online office suite Zoho has launched a new service called Zoho Dicussions. Basically, the service lets you create and manage a discussion forum that's hosted on Zoho.com. It literally takes just a few seconds to create a forum, but you can customize your forum with subtopics, a logo, favicon, and other minor tweaks. The basic service is free and lets you create up to 2 forums and 2 sub forums. ...
by Jay Hathaway on September 16, 2009 at 01:00 PM

There are plenty of apps you can use to build your own comic strip, with little artistic talent required. Various members of the Download Squad team love Bitstrips and Comic Life Magiq, but we grownups aren't really the target audience for ToonDoo, a comic strip maker from Zoho. ToonDoo is for educational use, allowing kids to make comic strips in the classroom (even if they can't draw), and ...
by Christina Warren on July 29, 2009 at 01:15 PM

Because I work almost exclusively in remote-based teams, I'm always looking for new tools and services that can help me manage my daily tasks and effectively collaborate with my team members. One of the biggest problems I have with some collaboration systems is that they require everyone to login and collaborate using the web app itself. This is great if you are always in one place or in a ...
by Brad Linder on April 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM

Zoho has launched a new mobile interface for its web-based office and productivity applications. That includes a mail and calendar app, as well as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database utilities. To launch the mobile version of Zoho, just visit m.zoho.com in any mobile browser. Or if you just want to see what the interface looks like, you can use the same URL in a desktop ...
by Brad Linder on April 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Zoho has launched a new feature that lets you access Zoho's suite of web office documents from Faceboo, iGoogle., Orkut, or any web page that either supports OpenSocial XML or lets you embed an iframe. Zoho Gadgets are little widgets that provide you with an overview of the following Zoho services:
Zoho Docs
Zoho Mail
Zoho Calendar
Zoho Tasks
Zoho Contacts
Zoho Planner
In other ...
by Brad Linder on April 1, 2009 at 01:00 PM

Zoho is adding to its line of web-based productivity apps with the launch of Zoho Chat 2.0. The service is a web-based instant messenger that lets you connect to multiple IM networks to chat simultaneously with your AOL, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Gogole, and other contacts. In other words, Zoho Chat is a lot like Meebo. But Meebo has some features that are still missing from Zoho Chat, including the ...
by Brad Linder on March 5, 2009 at 03:00 PM

Zoho has launched an updated version of Zoho Writer, an online word processor that lets you create, edit, share, and collaborate on text based documents. Zoho Writer 2.0 includes a bunch of tweaks, most of which affect the visual appearance of the web app. Probably the biggest change is the adition of a new MenuTab interface which saves space at the top of the screen by breaking up menus into ...
by Christina Warren on February 5, 2009 at 05:00 PM

We've covered Box.net before -- the file storage site with collaborative tools and a really great iPhone app -- today the company has launched a redesigned site and even more tools to make online collaboration easier and more effective.
Last year, Box.net added the ability to let users invite other collaborators to view or edit documents. Coupled with Box.net's OpenBox platform, you have a really ...
by Lee Mathews on December 16, 2008 at 09:00 AM

By now, many of you are probably using web-based office suites like Zoho, Google Docs, or Thinkfree as your primary office applications. If you do and you're a Firefox user as well, you'll probably love the OpenIT Online addon.
I mentioned it previously in my list of 14 extremely useful addons, but it's been updated quite a bit since then.
When you install the plugin, the configuration wizard ...
by Brad Linder on October 10, 2008 at 01:00 PM

Online productivity app makers Zoho have publicly rolled out Zoho Mail, a webmail application that's been in private beta up until today. While the world may not really need yet another webmail app, there are a few things that make Zoho Mail a notable challenger to offerings from Google, Yaho!, Microsoft, and AOL. First and foremost, Zoho Mail offers an offline mode thanks to Google Gears. If ...