Google changes privacy policy to make the company one big product
Google is changing its privacy policy, consolidating 60 different policies into one. You cannot opt-out of it unless you stop using all Google products.
Many of us know that Google is not just a web search company. It creates a mobile operating system, is collaborative office software, a Skype competitor, a social network, and a virtual map creator. All of these different products had separate privacy policies, which controlled how much information you wanted to … Continue Reading
British Telecom targets more than Android in patent suit against Google
Yet another major company has jumped into patent squabbles with Google. British Telecommunications filed suit against the search giant on Thursday for infringing on six patents.
BT is aiming higher than most other companies targeting Google — which at this point include Apple, Oracle, and Microsoft — because it’s not just targeting Android; it’s targeting almost every Google service, including Gmail, Google+ and Google Docs, reports Florian Mueller at FOSS Patents.
“BT seeks damages — … Continue Reading
Google releases 50 new features for presentations in Google Docs
Google is rolling out a suite of new changes to its Google Docs service, including 50 new features for Presentations, according to an official blog post today.
The company has its eye on collaboration features and has been including them in many of its latest products, including social network Google+. For Google+, it was the ability to share screens and docs in Hangout, the video chatting feature. Google Docs has always allowed users to edit … Continue Reading
Google about to make Google Docs into a virtual hard drive called Google Drive
Google appears to be close to rebranding its online document service, Google Docs, as a virtual hard drive in the cloud.
A blurry screenshot (shown above) snapped by blogger and social media consultant Johannes Wigand appears to show a slightly modified version of Google Docs, called Drive. The screen appeared for a few seconds in “an event powered by Google,” Wigand reports.
The screenshot looks almost identical to the “new look” for Google Docs that’s … Continue Reading
Google Docs list suffers an outage (and comes back)
The Google Docs List, the main directory of all of your documents, is apparently having some kind of outage today. On the Google apps status dashboard, Google has marked the Google Docs List as having a “service disruption.” It seems individual Google documents can be opened and edited are otherwise working fine, as are other Google applications. The only issues appears to be with the main Docs navigation page that lists your folders and each … Continue Reading
Security researchers hack Google’s Chrome OS
When Google first started talking about its Google Chrome OS software a few years ago, one of the selling points was the promise that it would come with much better built-in security than other operating systems. Now, Chrome OS has only been commercially available for a few months, and security researchers have already figured out how to hack it.
Two researchers told a crowd at the Black Hat security conference today that they had used … Continue Reading
Magazine geeks use social media to make old-school print pub
Forget the debates about whether online media is killing print: For the makers of Longshot, the internet makes it possible to publish an issue of a magazine in just two days.
From announcing the issue’s theme (“debt,” according to the announcement that went out today) to collecting submissions to editing them, laying them out on pages, adding art and shipping everything to the printer, the editors have given themselves just 48 hours.
Longshot is one … Continue Reading
Box.net CEO: Apple’s cloud strategy is like Microsoft’s, and it won’t work
There’s not much future in online office-suite apps, like the ones Microsoft and Apple offer, if you believe Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie.
Rather than getting all their office apps from one vendor, he said, the best strategy in the enterprise space — and now the consumer space — is to find a service that wraps together the best apps from multiple companies that all do one thing very well.
Box.net (which specializes in enterprise … Continue Reading
Box.net adds Google Docs to its army of software add-ons
Cloud storage provider Box.net announced today that it is integrating Google Docs into its main web application, giving all Box.net customers the ability to create and edit Google Docs from within Box.net.
The company’s newest integration will allow Box.net customers to transfer Google Docs documents to and from their cloud storage units. Box.net user will be able to open Google Docs from within the Box.net application and share them with other Box.net customers in their … Continue Reading
Native Google Docs Android app could be a game changer
Google has released a slick new Android application for Google Docs that makes managing documents easy and adds the ability to convert words in images into editable text.
Editing documents is still done exclusively on the web, but the added functionality provided by the native Android app greatly improves the user experience of Google Docs on mobile devices.
Google also acknowledges that documents are meant to be shared and thus has added support for widgets … Continue Reading
Google adds comment streams to Docs
Google has introduced a new comment stream feature in its online document sharing and editing program, Google Docs, in an effort to promote the service as an online collaboration tool.
The new commenting system amounts to a chat stream for specific parts of the document. Users can highlight specific parts of the document and begin a discussion stream where anyone in the document can comment. There’s also a general discussion stream that collectively shows all … Continue Reading
Office? How quaint: Google announces Docs connectivity with Microsoft Office
Google announced today it is giving Microsoft Office users a way to bring their documents into Google Docs without having to leave the Office application.
While the service appears within the desktop Office application, this could be the final nail in the coffin for desktop document editing. Microsoft has already taken a strong position in the cloud with the impending launch of Office 365. The company brought all of its Office applications online in response … Continue Reading
Google Docs editing finally comes to mobile browsers — but how useful is it?
Dear Google: If you keep this up, I won’t have any more excuses to be unproductive on my phone in transit.
Google announced today that Google Docs users can now edit their files in mobile browsers on iPhones and devices running Google’s Android operating system.
Google Docs users could already access their files and view them. They can now select a new edit function and add or remove information as they see fit. The functionality … Continue Reading
Cloud Sherpas raises $1.6M to sell Google apps to companies
Cloud Sherpas, a designated reseller of Google’s online application suite for enterprise customers, announced today it has raised $1.6 million in its first round of funding.
The funding is pegged to help the company sell its Google Application implementation to new markets. Cloud Sherpas will also use the funds to develop its own cloud offering, SherpaTools, which serves as a companion application that helps manage Google’s cloud software.
“This is mainly working capital, but we … Continue Reading
As business goes virtual, collaboration and communication need consolidation
Picture this: Your sales support is on the East Coast while your business development is on the West Coast. Some of your corporate information is stored in the cloud, while the rest is on a server humming away in a closet in your headquarters. And a $10 million deal you’re about to pitch is about to fall apart because you can’t share ideas and files effectively.
It’s a growing problem as businesses have become more … Continue Reading
Week in review: Android's disruptive potential, Twitter's new business model
Picture this: Your sales support is on the East Coast while your business development is on the West Coast. Some of your corporate information is stored in the cloud, while the rest is on a server humming away in a closet in your headquarters. And a $10 million deal you’re about to pitch is about to fall apart because you can’t share ideas and files effectively.
It’s a growing problem as businesses have become more … Continue Reading
Google Docs gets major facelift
Picture this: Your sales support is on the East Coast while your business development is on the West Coast. Some of your corporate information is stored in the cloud, while the rest is on a server humming away in a closet in your headquarters. And a $10 million deal you’re about to pitch is about to fall apart because you can’t share ideas and files effectively.
It’s a growing problem as businesses have become more … Continue Reading
Google Docs gets a web clipboard
Picture this: Your sales support is on the East Coast while your business development is on the West Coast. Some of your corporate information is stored in the cloud, while the rest is on a server humming away in a closet in your headquarters. And a $10 million deal you’re about to pitch is about to fall apart because you can’t share ideas and files effectively.
It’s a growing problem as businesses have become more … Continue Reading
Buzzword buzzes closer to Google Docs
Picture this: Your sales support is on the East Coast while your business development is on the West Coast. Some of your corporate information is stored in the cloud, while the rest is on a server humming away in a closet in your headquarters. And a $10 million deal you’re about to pitch is about to fall apart because you can’t share ideas and files effectively.
It’s a growing problem as businesses have become more … Continue Reading
