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Google Calendar

Google Calendar is now available to anyone with a Gmail account. We run Exchange in-house, but this will let us set up shared calendars with anyone. Cool!
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2006 04 13 Technology Comments (0)

Put away the shoes

The Register puts a finger through the bubble in this article, quoting [Dr.] Eric Schmidt:
“Office is not the business we’re in,” Schmidt told journalists in New York.
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2006 03 18 Comments (0)

Another take on Google Office

In this article, Only in a bubble is Google’s web WP an Office-killer, The Register pours cold water on the millenenial fever of Google Office:
Technically illiterate, and pumped up on junk science and pious New Age aphorisms - such s “collective intelligence” - today’s “Web 2.0″ kids promise to leave a legacy of disappointment.
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2006 03 11 Comments (0)

Dropping Shoes: Google Office, Part II

Phillip Lenssen has posted a screenshot of reference to Google Calendar on the Google Links page in Gmail. The screenshots are here.
Can Google Calc be far behind?
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2006 03 10 Comments (0)

Dropping Shoes: Google Office, Part I

Google announced today that it acquired Writely, a “collaborative” word processor that sits in a web browser.
I’m on the waiting list. [Fingers tapping...]
This guy is a bit snarky about the whole thing, asking why it wasn’t developed in-house. I suspect there’s a whole set of startups who are coding as fast as they [...]

2006 03 09 Comments (0)

Another reason to prefer Copernic Desktop Search

According EFF: Breaking News
Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers, to enable [...]

2006 02 09 Security Comments (0)

LA Times: The 800-Pound Google

The LA Times is reporting a new rumor about Google, Google PC, in this story: Industry Feeling Presence of the 800-Pound Google - Los Angeles Times Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, [...]

2006 01 03 Microsoft Comments (0)

Google’s investment in AOL

In this CNET posting, Google says that it’s purchase of 5% of AOL “represented a vote of confidence in AOL’s plans to transform itself from a shrinking provider of dial-up Internet access into a series of advertising-supported Web sites”.
Way back when, when AOL bought CompuServe, the positive spin was that AOL would bring the CompuServe [...]

2005 12 24 Comments (0)

Skype and Google Talk linked

This blog — Marketplace Monitor: Festoon links GoogleTalk & Skype users — points to an plugin, Festoon, that lets Google Talk and Sykpe users interconnect.
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2005 12 23 Skype Comments (0)

YASHIE

In the Washington Post, this article (Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security) notes that there is Yet Another Security Hole in Internet Explorer. This one lets a carefully crafted web page lift data from the target machine if local data has been indexed by the Google Desktop.
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2005 12 03 Microsoft
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