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Docs to Be a Real Alternative to Microsoft Office by Next Year, Google Says

Google is getting confident enough in its web-based office suite that it's now claiming that it will be ready to take Microsoft Office head-on within a year. Not just as a low-cost compromise option, but as an actual alternative for most users. These words are coming straight from Dave Girouard, president of Goo...

14 November 2009
05:48 GMT

Twitter Used in 89 Percent of Enterprises

It looks like social media use is not only going up for individual users, social tools are also becoming a lot more popular in enterprises, this despite social networks being blocked in a large number of them. A new report from Palo Alto Networks, maker of enterprise firewall solutions, found that Twitter use grew t...

11 November 2009
10:26 GMT

Google Docs Opens Up, Enables Bulk Exporting

Google seems committed to its Data Liberation Front program which aims to make the data from the various Google services easily exportable and open. The project has been in the works and active for a couple of years but it was just recently revealed and efforts intensified. At the time of the launch Google Docs was h...

27 October 2009
07:44 GMT

Gmail Enables Google Docs Previews

Google has a wide set of products and keeping them working together can become somewhat of a problem. But, seeing as integration has always been one of the search giant's biggest draw, it's good to know that it is still working on this. The company has just introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs which, desp...

16 October 2009
05:18 GMT

Google Docs Hit with Problems After Recent Update

Google and cloud computing don't really need another failure but that seems to be the case as users are reporting issues with Google Docs after the recent update. The problems have been acknowledged by the search giant and, while not on the scale of Gmail outages, they are preventing users from printing document...

15 October 2009
04:44 GMT

Google Docs Enables Folder Sharing and Bulk Uploading

Google Docs is becoming increasingly powerful but it's not ready to replace full-blown desktop office suites just yet. Still, for most people it's good enough to get the job done without too much hassle and, more importantly, for free. But, while it can't compete with the likes of Microsoft Office, it ...

13 October 2009
02:57 GMT

Google Tests Cloudboard, a Web-Based Clipboard Replacement

Google is apparently testing a new service called Cloudboard, which aims to replace desktop clipboard in certain instances and allow users to copy data from one Google product to another, for example from Gmail to Docs. The product hasn't been publicly revealed yet but internal data suggest that Cloudboard is al...

7 October 2009
09:05 GMT

Google Docs Enables Optical Character Recognition

Google is yet again putting to good use its massive computing capabilities and technology portfolio to offer new features and tools for its products. The company has announced that it has enabled optical character recognition for files uploaded to Google Docs through an API it now provides. The OCR works for images w...

30 September 2009
09:58 GMT

Google Docs Gets Ready for School with Equation Editor

Google Docs is far from an Office killer, not that there’s anyone claiming that, but it is slowly adding new features and functionality and it's getting clearer that the day will come when Docs will go head to head with Microsoft's offering. We're not quite there yet but the latest additions, an ...

29 September 2009
03:14 GMT

Google Docs Goes Public, Will Appear in Search Results

A post on the Google Docs help forum by Google employee Marie F. has announced that Google will begin to crawl and index all public Google Docs that are externally linked to. At the same time an email has been sent to all Google Apps users that have used Google Docs with specific instructions on how to configure thei...

19 September 2009
06:19 GMT

The Forms in Google Docs Get Some New Features

Google Docs engineers mustn’t have slept a lot lately, since massive new features have been rolled out from this project. The latest press release from the Mountain View-based giant brings good news for Google Docs fanatics. Cool new features like pre-filled forms, bidirectional form content, a more secure way ...

4 September 2009
03:03 GMT

Google Translate Adds Support for Nine More Languages

Google Translate, while far from perfect, is becoming increasingly used and can be just the tool for the job in certain situations, like in trying to understand a website or a text without needing a professional level translation. Now Google is opening the tool to new set of users as it has introduced an additional n...

1 September 2009
08:48 GMT

Google Docs Introduces Translation Tools

Google has so many projects and services at this point that it seems that the greater hassle is not creating new ones but just getting them to work together. This can be a burden but also a blessing as all Google has to do is link two services and, presto, new functionality. This is the case now with Google Docs, the...

28 August 2009
09:12 GMT

Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and GTalk Finally Shedding the 'Beta' Tag

Google is making an almost historical move today, as it sheds the beta tag off some of its most popular products, like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The move was announced earlier this year, but is just now being rolled out. While some services have had the tag for several years now, it was co...

7 July 2009
11:42 GMT

Security and Privacy Gurus Plead to Google for Default HTTPS

Thirty seven security researchers, professionals, privacy advocates and academics have sent a letter to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, asking him to consider encrypting all connections to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar by default. Google has openly replied that it is considering such an implementation and w...

17 June 2009
04:50 GMT

What Kids Think About Google Earth

The children of Google employees spent this past week in the "Geo Camp," a place where they could get in touch with Google Earth, Maps and Docs. These applications are probably the most appealing for kids between 9 and 12 years old, whose passion for all things science, nature and gadgets is vivid. After a week of ha...

22 July 2008
05:47 GMT

New Template Gallery from Google

For those who see organizing their documents, no matter if they're private or official, as an ordeal, as well as for those who are gone geese when having to imagine a nice layout for their engagement party invitations or for their resumes, Google is salutary. A new gallery of 309 templates, that can be used for ...

17 July 2008
03:33 GMT

Access Google Docs without an Internet Connection

For those who do not know yet, Google Docs is a free web-based application provided by Google that allows you to create and manage documents, spreadsheets and presentations online or offline (without an Internet connection). For Google Docs users, the offline access is possible due to the implementation of a new pow...

28 May 2008
11:58 GMT

Google Docs Has View

One of Google's many products is Google Docs, which is basically a web version support to users wanting to edit and create office documents. The product, which was released in September 2007, provides basic functions for a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation. Since its release, it has received a number ...

23 May 2008
02:52 GMT

For Easter, Google Docs Reveals Cliply

No, Clippy, I do not want any suggestions on what to do next. I just type in an article and there's nothing you can do to stop me! Once again, no, I do not want to find out about the help you can provide. Should I need it, I can get it on my own. Or are you acting up all of a sudden because you have seen the Goo...

19 March 2008
13:41 GMT

Google's Pink Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is great and all if you have that special someone next to you to hold and share the special times. If you don't, it's a bitter time, sprayed with thoughts about how the marketing industry has taken over culture and society as a whole, bringing out what's worst in people, namely the...

14 February 2008
06:52 GMT

A New Functionality for Google Navigation Toolbar

Firefox browser provides you many useful add-ons that extend its browsing capabilities, making your onlineexperience more productive. There are many possibilities in which you can create Firefox add-ons, using standalone software or other Firefox extensions that are able to create .xpi files automatically based on J...

7 February 2008
14:44 GMT

Google Docs Adds Stress Relieving Feature

In case you've ever needed some input from others when working at your spreadsheet, your only viable option was to invite them to work on it as collaborators. Meaning that they could also modify the data you had input up to the moment in your work and if you had the merry jokers that would mess with it, you'...

7 February 2008
05:35 GMT

A Better Docs Experience Altogether

With the growing popularity of Google Docs, the dev team needs to make haste with their efforts to attract and, more important, maybe, keep the visitors and turn them into users. The "all on the Internet" is enough only for the first part mentioned above, so they've got a lot of work laid ahead of them.Partnerin...

28 January 2008
07:11 GMT

An Efficient Way to Edit, Share and Publish Presentations Online

Web presentations can be managed using various desktop or web based applications. For example, Microsoft Office or Open Office suites provide you tools to create and publish presentations on your desktop computer or online. On the Internet, there are many free or commercial services that allow you to interact with v...

5 November 2007
13:15 GMT

Google Docs Crashes Nokia's Mozilla Browser

The Mozilla browser that Nokia used for the upgrade of its Linux based Internet Tablet is less reliable than people might think. An error has just been detected with its capability of handling Google's AJAX based Google Docs.The most recent firmware upgrade release for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet adds conside...

1 November 2007
07:55 GMT


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