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| Aug 26, 2014 | Google docs update may have Microsoft a bit worried, and rightly so | Mark Hawver, Tech Times 26 August 2014, 06:08 pm
Google has upgraded its Docs, Sheets, and Slides applications for the iPhone and iPad in a way that directly confronts Microsoft.
These apps will now allow users to open, create and edit nati... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | Google launches slideshow app on iOS, updates Docs & Sheets with Office support | Google announced today a major update to its iOS productivity suite, introducing a new “Slides” slideshow app, updating existing “Docs” document editing, and “Sheets” spreadsheet apps with new editing features.
Going forward, Google touts, ... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | Google Brings Native MS Office Editing Features To Its iOS Productivity Apps, Launches Slides For iOS | Google is closing the loop on bringing support for natively editing Microsoft Office files to all of productivity apps today. The company’s iOS apps for Docs and Sheets are getting a couple of minor new features and design updates today, bu... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Google Opens Classroom, Its Learning Management Tool, To All Teachers | Back in May, Google announced the limited preview of Classroom, a tool that aims to make it easier for teachers to stay in touch with their students and to give them assignments and feedback. Google says more than 100,000 educators from 45 ... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Gmail improves spam filter as it extends its global reach | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google announced today that Gmail’s spam filter c... |
| Aug 1, 2014 | Report: Google+ Photos to be separated from Google+ | reader comments 68 with 58 posters participating
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Back in April, Vic Gundotra, a senior executive at Google and the leader of Google+, left the company. Shortly afterward, r... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Google makes Chromebox for Meetings more business-friendly with sweeter service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google looks keen on making its new Chromebox for... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account, Becomes Part Of Google Apps For Business And Gets SLA | Say what you want about Google+, but it incubated two great products at Google: Hangouts for video meetings and Google+ Photos. While Photos is still deeply integrated with the social network, Hangouts is starting to grow up and it’s sheddi... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Google makes Chromebox for Meetings more business-friendly with sweeter service | Google looks keen on making its new Chromebox for Meetings videoconferencing system really well suited for businesses. Today the tech giant added some new features to the product.
The most notable upgrade: a service-level agreement (SLA) th... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | Google Docs Makes Collaborative Editing Easier For Word Users | At its I/O developer conference earlier this month, Google announced a major update to its suite of productivity apps, including Docs, Sheets and Slides. The main feature there was the integration of QuickOffice, which now makes editing nat... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | Google Docs now works with uploaded tracked changes from your Word documents | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google has given those who work with Microsoft Wo... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | Google Docs now works with uploaded tracked changes from your Word documents | Google has given those who work with Microsoft Word another reason to move documents to the cloud.
Today, Google announced a new function that converts any tracked changes in Word documents to Suggested Edits. Basically, if you have Word do... |
| Jul 24, 2014 | Google Folds Its Workforce Management Tool, Maps Coordinate, Into Maps Engine Pro | Last year, Google launched Maps Engine Pro, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to create, manage and share maps to visualize their data. Until now, this offering was purely about map creation, but today, Google is adding M... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Like Google Earth pictures? Now your company can buy them. (Snooping as a service?) | It’s one thing to cruise around the planet virtually with Google Earth when you’re bored. Now, Google is bringing out those high-resolution aerial images for business use.
Today, the imagery from Google Earth for the continental United Stat... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Google Starts Selling Its Aerial Imagery To Maps For Business Users | Google Maps for Business is a service for enterprises and government organizations that need to visualize their assets on a map. Today, the company has announced that customers can now purchase Google’s aerial imagery directly from the comp... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Like Google Earth pictures? Now your company can buy them. (Snooping as a service?) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s one thing to cruise around the planet virtua... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | The good news & the bad news about IPO-bound Box | Business-focused cloud file-sharing company Box just raised a big $150 million round to keep itself private for a bit longer — before eventually going public.
After news of the funding round broke, the company came clean and confirmed the m... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | The good news & the bad news about IPO-bound Box | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Business-focused cloud file-sharing company Box j... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | Google Bolsters Enterprise Cloud Offerings with Google Drive for Work | News Google Bolsters Enterprise Cloud Offerings with Google Drive for Work By Kurt MackieJune 27, 2014
Google this week rolled out Google Drive for Work as part of a number of enterprise-grade enhancements to its cloud services.
Announced a... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | Google Bolsters Enterprise Cloud Offerings with Google Drive for Work | News Google Bolsters Enterprise Cloud Offerings with Google Drive for Work By Kurt MackieJune 27, 2014
Google this week rolled out Google Drive for Work as part of a number of enterprise-grade enhancements to its cloud services.
Announced a... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Here's what Google is doing to become a serious enterprise-tech vendor | SAN FRANCISCO — Google seems more and more determined to take big money from large businesses through its cloud services. Now it’s got a bunch of plans to make that desire a reality.
“Enterprise is now a big bet for Google,” Amit Singh, the... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Here's what Google is doing to become a serious enterprise-tech vendor | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN FRANCISCO — Google seems more and more determ... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | Required reading: A year of Google coverage to prepare you for I/O | reader comments 23 with 19 posters participating, including story author
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| May 22, 2014 | Israeli firefighters use Google Maps to help save homes and lives | There are many important jobs in the world, such as nurses, police officers and doctors to name a few. However, firefighters are near and dear to me, as I endured losing my home to a fire. The flames and smoke are very scary, ruining everyt... |
| May 16, 2014 | Google Apps gets a bit more secure, all the better to woo your boss' boss' boss | Google has yet again gussied up its email, calendar, document collaboration, and file-sharing services to appeal to the fattest of fat cats: The enterprise — including schools and government agencies.
As Google campaigns to sell businesses ... |
| May 2, 2014 | School district goes gaga for Google -- Chromebooks, tablets and services, oh my! | Students nowadays are very blessed to have so much inexpensive technology at their fingertips. When I was a young boy in elementary school, I had to learn the Dewey Decimal System so I could find outdated books in a smelly library. Even if ... |
| May 2, 2014 | Doctor.com prescribes Chromebooks as cure for insecurity | Chromebooks are very capable computers that many dismiss as a glorified web browser. However, those detractors should think outside the box a bit. For many people, the low-cost Chromebook can meet all of their needs. If all you need is a ha... |
| Apr 30, 2014 | Google to stop spying on your children | One of the major knocks on Google, is that the company collects its users' data. It is that data, coupled with advertising, that makes most of the search-giant's services free. Something being "free", however, is subjective. In ot... |
| Apr 30, 2014 | Google Promises To Stop Trawling Student Gmail For Ads | Google announced Wednesday that it will no longer sift through the Gmail messages of students, business users and government bureaucrats for targeted advertising purposes—at least for those using its Google Apps suites. The decision stemmed... |
| Apr 30, 2014 | Google Will Also Stop Scanning Google Apps Inboxes For Ads | Earlier this morning, Google announced that it would stop scanning students’ Apps for Education accounts to target ads at them. What was somewhat lost in that announcement was that Google will also make similar changes to other account type... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | As Windows XP expires, Google urges Chromebook adoption | Support for Windows XP comes to an end today. Despite that, there are still a fair number of customers continuing to run the aging operating system. While those customers may be a bit sad about the demise, not everyone is.
On the heels of m... |
| Apr 8, 2014 | Google feeds on XP's carcass with Chromebook promos for the enterprise | When Microsoft ended support for its Windows XP operating system, Google smelled an opportunity.
Rather than go hard on software, Google is focusing on hardware — specifically the Chromebook. It’s offering discounts to make the Chromebook m... |
| Apr 8, 2014 | Google feeds on XP's carcass with Chromebook promos for the enterprise | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Microsoft ended support for its Windows XP o... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | The fat lady sings for Microsoft, thanks to Google Apps | The office suite battle is really starting to heat up. Last week, Microsoft released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the iPad, signaling a sea change in the company's focus. However, Google is still pushing forward with its attempt to sway u... |
| Mar 21, 2014 | Gmail Was Down For an Average of Two Hours Last Year, Google Says | All hail. [via Robert Scoble, CC BY 2.0]
Doesn’t it always feel like Gmail is having trouble when you absolutely need it most? Turns out it’s probably just your imagination.
Google claims that in 2013, Gmail was up and running 99.978 percen... |
| Mar 20, 2014 | Google and New York City could ruin communities and lower property values | Poverty tends to breed crime. While I am not defending criminals, the financial status into which a person is born has a huge impact on their likelihood to become a criminal. Being born poor does not guarantee a person will be a criminal, b... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | With WebEx for Chromebooks, Google actually does something boring | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We all know Google’s moonshots, from its self-dri... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | With WebEx for Chromebooks, Google actually does something boring | We all know Google’s moonshots, from its self-driving cars and crazy robots to Project Loon, which seeks to bring the world Internet via balloon. Even divisions outside Google X tend to be pretty fascinating.
But today, the search giant rev... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | Google attacks Microsoft in the enterprise -- Cisco WebEx running on Chromebooks | Modern offices are not confined to one building. Many enterprises have offices scattered around the world. Not to mention, computers and the internet have afforded many employees the opportunity to work from home. This enables people to spe... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | Concord Hospitality wisely chooses Chromeboxes instead of Microsoft Windows | Choosing the right computer for a task can be tricky. If you spend too little money, you may buy an under-powered machine with poor performance. Conversely, if you spend too much, you may end up with too much power, effectively wasting mone... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Google Courting Cloud Apps Users with Referral Program Launch | News Google Courting Cloud Apps Users with Referral Program Launch By Kurt MackieMarch 11, 2014
Google on Monday kicked off a referral program to promote its Google Apps for Business product in U.S. and Canadian markets.
Under the terms of ... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Google Courting Cloud Apps Users with Referral Program Launch | News Google Courting Cloud Apps Users with Referral Program Launch By Kurt MackieMarch 11, 2014
Google on Monday kicked off a referral program to promote its Google Apps for Business product in U.S. and Canadian markets.
Under the terms of ... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Wanna make $15? Refer Google Apps to your network | Google will pay out for news user referred to its business-targeted suite of Google Apps
I was recently joking to a friend of mine that I wished we still lived in an age where people just blindly believed whatever ads told them and they cou... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Google To Pay $15 For Each New User With Debut Of Google Apps Referral Program | Google announced today the start of a new referral program for customers of its online office and productivity suite, Google Apps, which will encourage the company’s current users to recommend the service to others in exchange for a $15 bon... |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Google Expands Apps Partner Programs With Tech Track, Opens Cloud Partner Program To More Businesses | Google’s Apps Marketplace, its directory of cloud apps that integrate with Google Apps, now features over 750 services. Today, at its Global Partner Summit, Google is expanding this program by creating a formal Technology track in its partn... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | 3Tier Shares Global Wind, Solar Data in Google Maps Gallery | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Among the many maps in Google’s new Maps Gallery depicting everything from Spanish postal code boundaries to Martian topography, is one showing how much sunshine graces every ... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | Samsung unveils ARM-based Chromebook 2 -- designed for home and school | My first-ever Chromebook was a Samsung. The 11.6-inch laptop was inexpensive and revolutionary. Heck, it looked like a plasticy Macbook Air -- very sexy. However, all that glitters is not gold. While my relationship with the laptop started ... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | Google Showcases Government, Nonprofit & Business Maps With New Gallery | Google has launched a new Google Maps Gallery aimed at making mapping data from governments, nonprofits and businesses more accessible to the public.
Organizations can share and publish their maps online via Google Maps Engine, and have the... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | Google Launches Maps Gallery To Make Public Data Maps More Discoverable | |
| Feb 22, 2014 | 4 million Brazilian students get Google Apps for Education | While the gold-standard of office suites remains Microsoft's Office, many competitors are trying to catch up. While Libreoffice is a nice alternative, it has failed to truly take off beyond Linux users and people who don't want to spend mon... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Google Search Appliance Gets Big Update With Version 7.2 | Google has launched a major update to the Google Search Appliance with version 7.2, aimed at making it easier for employees and customers to find documents and easier for businesses to organize data.
The new version comes with improvements ... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | With Chromebooks A Success, Google Adds Focus On Chromeboxes | When you think ChromeOS, chances are the first thing that comes to mind are Chromebooks. Since 2012, though, Google and its hardware partners have also been quietly selling its Chromeboxes, the desktop equivalents of the ChromeOS laptops. N... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Google And VMware Make Accessing Windows Apps, Desktops From ChromeOS Easier | Google and VMware today announced that they are working together to make it easier for Chromebook users in the enterprise to access Windows apps and the Windows desktop on their machines. Using VMware’s Horizon desktop as a service (DaaS), ... |
| Feb 11, 2014 | Google Updates Its Enterprise Search Appliance With More Flexible Search Options | The Google target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products/gsa.html">Search Appliance (GSA) is a rack-based server for enterprises that allows them to bring Google’s search technology in-house. ... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Google Drive Adds Activity Stream, Makes Tracking Changes To Shared Documents Easier | Google today added an activity stream to Google Drive that finally makes it easier for its users to track changes to documents that are shared with multiple users. This feature, Google says, will roll out over the next week, so it may be a ... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | Google+ Gets Private, Restricted Communities | Whether or not you associate Google with privacy, it has always been a major component of Google+. From the beginning, Google’s “circles” sharing concept enabled the kind of social sharing experience that wasn’t available on competing socia... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | Google+ Adds Restricted Communities In An Effort To Court Business Users | Many businesses have now adopted tools like Yammer or Podio, but Google+ also wants a piece of this social enterprise action. While Google’s social network started courting enterprise users more than a year ago by adding restricted posts an... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | How to get to the cloud: 5 easy steps | Earlier this month, I delivered a keynote at Gartner's annual symposium and published a blog post about the rapidly evolving landscape of business technology. The rise of cloud computing and ubiquitous, powerful mobile devices means that or... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | Amtrak offers train-tracking with Google Maps -- a potential terrorism security risk? | While long-distance travel has evolved to the airplane, many people still "ride the rails" and use trains. People choose the old-fashioned train option for multiple reasons. Passengers may prefer it because it is less expensive, t... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Google Apologizes, Says Gmail Uptime Not Affected By Yesterday’s Email Delivery Delays | Google has apologized and offered up an explanation of sorts for yesterday’s lengthy issues involving Gmail delivery delays. For those who receive so little email that you may have missed this (lucky you): on Monday, the company said that “... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Google Makes Quickoffice For iOS And Android Free For Everyone | It’s been more than a year since Google acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app for editing Microsoft Office files on tablets. Over the last few months, it has slowly expanded the tool’s availability by making free for Google Apps for Business c... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Google Brings Cloud Print To Windows, Makes Printer Sharing Easier | Google today launched a number of updates to Cloud Print that finally bring it to Windows and make it easier to share printers with others.
Even Google knows that there are still some occasions when you just need to print something, so for ... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Google Groups Gets An Update, Proving Google Still Cares | Google announced today that it is retiring the old Google Groups interface, and is making the new one available to everyone. The company has been busy updating the product over the past year, and now all users can experience the fruits of t... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | Google Launches Maps Engine API To Allow Enterprise Developers To More Easily Create, Share And Publish Custom Maps | Google’s Maps Engine, its enterprise-focused service for developers who need to be able to create their own maps based on custom data, launched about two years ago and has been available commercially since last year. Today, Google is adding... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | Shock survey: 37% of orgs plan to adopt Office 365 within 24 Months | The war for the hearts and minds of potential cloud email users at organizations worldwide is far from over. Both Microsoft and Google are winning small field skirmishes for their respective corners over the past few years. Most recently, M... |
| May 29, 2013 | Google Apps Admins Finally Get An Android App To Manage Their Users, Services And Devices On The Go | Google has continuously made its Google Apps Admin Console for IT professionals who manage large Google Apps for Business, Education and Government deployments more powerful. But one thing it never offered these administrators was a mobile ... |
| May 13, 2013 | Google Unifies Its Free And Paid Storage Options, Gives You 15GB To Share Between Drive, Gmail And Google+ Photos, 30GB For Apps Users | Until now, you’ve had to track your free storage on Google products separately. It was just another thing that Google hadn’t brought together to make it easier on users. Today, the company announced that you’ll now have 15GB of free storage... |
| May 13, 2013 | Google unifies cloud storage so you get 15GB shared across Gmail, Drive, & Google+ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google has modified its cloud storage allocation ... |
| May 8, 2013 | Google Makes Its Customizable Apps Admin Console Available To All Customers | Today, Google announced the eventual rollout of a brand new look for its Admin Console, an area that only admins of Google Apps will see. The aim of the redesign is to help admins get to information quicker, manage user accounts easier and ... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | Google Makes It Easier To Turn Its Chromebooks Into Public Internet Kiosks | Google always said that its Chromebooks were “for sharing,” but even though they always had a guest mode, they weren’t necessarily set up to be used as public Internet kiosks. Today, Google is changing that with the launch of the new and im... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Google Launches Google Earth Pro 7.1 With New Viewshed Visualization Tool And Improved Printing Options | Just in time for Earth Day, Google just launched version 7.1 of Google Earth Pro, the professional version of Google’s desktop-based mapping tool. The new version adds a number of map-making and advanced printing tools that will make it eas... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Google Apps For Business Admins Can Now Manage Chrome Settings And Enable Legacy Browser Support For Older Web Apps | Google today added a new feature to Google Apps for Business that could make its Chrome browser significantly more palatable for businesses. The company’s new cloud-based management tool for Google Apps for Business and Education customers ... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Google BigQuery gets bigger with new features | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Can Google redeem itself after sparking outrage o... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Google BigQuery gets bigger with new features | Can Google redeem itself after sparking outrage on Twitter for shutting down its RSS reader?
Data nerds will benefit from the batch of updates to BigQuery, a web service that lets developers perform interactive analysis of massive datasets.... |
| Feb 10, 2013 | Spanning takes the crown for Google Apps backup services [review] | The competition in the Google Apps backup market is steadily ramping up, with more than a few contenders jumping in lately to have a piece of this newfound need. Just two months ago, I wrote about my (mostly) positive thoughts regarding App... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | Google Says 2,000 Schools Now Use Chromebooks, 2x As Many As Just 3 Months Ago | Google continues its push to bring its web-centric Chromebooks into schools, and it looks as if the fact that Google is in this project for the long haul is starting to pay off. According to Google, 2,000 schools worldwide now use Chromeboo... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | Lenovo’s new Thinkpad X131e Chromebook can take licking, keep ticking | Lenovo's Thinkpad X131e Chromebook.
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| Jan 2, 2013 | Google Maps And Places Are Coming To Hyundai’s And Kia’s Telematics Platforms | Google just announced that the Hyundai Motor Company, the corporation behind the Hyundai and Kia car brands, will integrate Google Maps and Places into its telematics systems. Both Hyundai’s Blue Link and Kia’s second-generation UVO eServic... |
| Dec 29, 2012 | In memoriam: the beloved products we lost in 2012 | Some products burn bright; others fade away.
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| Dec 10, 2012 | Google No Longer Offering Business Apps Service for Free | News Google No Longer Offering Business Apps Service for Free By Kurt MackieDecember 10, 2012
Businesses signing up for Google Apps must now pay a fee, Google announced last week.
Google's hosted productivity suite for business users will j... |
| Dec 10, 2012 | Google No Longer Offering Business Apps Service for Free | News Google No Longer Offering Business Apps Service for Free By Kurt MackieDecember 10, 2012
Businesses signing up for Google Apps must now pay a fee, Google announced last week.
Google's hosted productivity suite for business users will j... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Google kills free version of Google Apps for businesses | reader comments 121 with 69 posters participating
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| Dec 7, 2012 | Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business, Now Only Offering Premium Paid Version To Companies Of All Sizes | Google has announced a change to Google Apps for Business — ending the free version of the product, offering only its Premium version which costs $50 per user, per year, regardless of the size of the company. The change was announced on Goo... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Lost in Europe? Google wants to help | Despite recent competition from Nokia Here, Google remains largely unchallenged when it comes to maps, understanding that there’s more to them than just driving directions.
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| Dec 5, 2012 | Google now lets businesses build private Android app stores | reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating
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| Dec 5, 2012 | Google makes a 'Play' for IT with new Private Channel | Can Google get further into the business world by combining Apps and the popular Play store? We are about to find out because the company has announced just that approach. Google has been making inroads for sometime now with the information... |
| Nov 29, 2012 | Not To Be Outdone By Amazon, Google Reduces Its Cloud Storage Pricing For 2nd Time In A Week | This is competition at work: earlier this week, Google announced that it would reduce the price of its standard Google Cloud Storage by just a bit over 20%. Then, Amazon announced yesterday that it would reduce the price of its S3 cloud sto... |
| Nov 29, 2012 | Amazon, Google slash cloud storage prices more than 25 percent | reader comments 26 with 23 posters participating
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Rivals Amazon and Google both announced steep pricing cuts to their cloud storage services today. Amazon's Simple Storage S... |
| Nov 26, 2012 | Google’s Cloud Platform Gets 36 New Compute Engine Instance Types, Lower Storage Prices, Durable Reduced Availability Storage & More | Just one day before the start of Amazon’s AWS-focused re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, Google just announced a number of major updates to its set of Cloud Platform products. With this update, Google is introducing 36 new instance types f... |
| Nov 26, 2012 | Google Drops Pricing On Cloud Storage 20%, Adds New Features In Advance Of Rival Amazon’s First Big Cloud Summit | Google has dropped cloud storage pricing 20 percent, has added a set of new features, and is expanding its availability in Europe — all in advance of rival Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) first major event this week in Las Vegas.
With the drop i... |
| Nov 15, 2012 | Google Ups The Hangout Limit To 15 In Google Apps | Google announced today that it has extended the limit for the number of people you can invite to a Google+ hangout from 10 to 15.
“It’s still simple to get the most out of your hangouts: schedule a hangout in a calendar entry, join a hangou... |
| Oct 31, 2012 | Who killed Windows Small Business Server? Google | Most people probably didn't turn a glance at Microsoft's other big recent release, Windows Server 2012. Server operating systems rarely get much attention, and appropriately so; their appeal and importance really only extends to the rank an... |
| Oct 18, 2012 | The debate is now Chromebook vs Surface, not iPad, for K-12 education | The cat's out of the bag, and we can all stop guessing as to what the Surface RT will cost. Microsoft confirms many things, namely that Steve Ballmer was spot-on with his estimates on Surface pricing roughly a month ago. The Surface RT is g... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Google Launches New Maps APIs For Location Tracking And GPS-Free Geolocation | Google today launched two new APIs for Google Maps that are specifically geared toward tracking the location of vehicles, mobile resources and employees. By announcing these new APIs on its enterprise blog and by asking developers to go thr... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Google Updates Search Appliance – Adds Google Translate API To Target Global Market | Google is updating its search appliance, adding the Google Translate API and better recommendations in a new push for the global enterprise market.
Google Search Appliance (GSA) has not had an update since last September. Some have wondered... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Google Launches A New Google Search Appliance | Google Search Appliance has been around for about a decade, and today, the box has received a new update with version 7.0. This version adds universal search, refined relevance signals and some other bells and whistles.
“The GSA 7.0 helps y... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Google Apps Users Can Now Get 24/7 Phone Support For Chrome | Google just announced that Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers can now call and email the company with their questions about Chrome. Google, of course, has always been somewhat notorious for its lack of customer sup... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | Google Says Apps For Education Now Has More Than 20 Million Users | Google just announced that its Apps for Education suite is now being used by more than 20 million students, faculty members, and staff worldwide. The company made this announcement in a blog post celebrating the upcoming World Teachers’ Day... |
| Sep 5, 2012 | New Chromebook and Chromebox rentals lower prices (sort of) | reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating
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