Fwd: Friday Google updates

[Lloyd Cledwyn]

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From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: May 4, 2012 10:09:33 AM CDT
To: ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>,  Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>
Subject: Friday Google updates

Google Apps Updates

Google Drive not ready? Just wait a day... or maybe two. (With some rollout timeline info.)

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/your-google-drive-isnt-ready-just-wait-a-day-or-maybe-two.ars 

New Google Apps control panel dashboard UI

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-google-apps-control-panel-dashboard.html 

Automatic message translation, title tweaks, mute changes in Gmail

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/05/gmail-automatically-translate-messages.html 

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/say-hello-or-ola-or-halo-or-salam-to.html  

Docs recent updates (there are many), including 450 fonts

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/05/april-in-review-new-fonts-galore-and.html 

Legacy Docs migration (old Google docs will be upgraded automatically)

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-version-of-google-documents-rolling.html 

New version of Google Apps Device Policy

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-version-of-google-apps-device.html

How to open CSV files in Docs

http://lifehacker.com/5907277/open-csv-documents-in-google-docs

Google Groups redesign

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-groups-redesign.html

Other Google Updates

Google MapsGL updates

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/27/google-mapsgl-update-adds-parallax-perspective 

Android platform dev: 5 month wait for OS update is "reasonable"

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/android-platform-developer-says-five-month-wait-for-os-update-is-reasonable.ars 

Google Drive available for Chrome OS dev-channel users

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/27/google-drive-now-available-for-chrome-os-dev-channel 

Google Maps "cube" game

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/28/google-maps-cube-game-rolls-out 

Lifehacker's 5 best Android phones

http://lifehacker.com/5906041/five-best-android-phones 

Kindle Fire is #1 Android tablet

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/amazons-kindle-fire-now-the-1-android-tablet.ars 

Google Wave reaches zero amplitude

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/30/google-wave-zero-amplitude

Send any Gmail attachment to Drive (using an Apps Script)

http://lifehacker.com/5906343/instantly-send-any-gmail-attachment-to-google-drive 

Android has 51% US smartphone market share, iPhone 31%

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/01/comscore-us-smartphone-share-march-2012

Android ported to C#, .NET

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/05/xamarin-releases-xobotos-the-net-powered-version-of-android.ars

Google open sources key part of Street View code

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/02/0354212/google-releases-key-part-of-street-view-pipeline

Google Play adds carrier billing

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/get-stuff-done-in-cloud-go-google.html

Google proposes SPDY as successor to HTTP

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/02/google-proposes-spdy-replacement/

Android users get drive-by malware

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/05/android-users-targeted-for-the-first-time-in-drive-by-download-attacks.ars

Play adds shared song playlist to Music

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/04/google-play-adds-shared-song-playlist-to-music-helps-you-relive/

Google News gets G+ integration, real time coverage

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/04/google-news-update-google-plus-real-time-coverage

Google Policy/Privacy/Politics

FTC hires legal big guns for possible antitrust lawsuit against Google

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/ftc-hires-legal-big-guns-for-possible-antitrust-lawsuit-against-google.ars

Big Content eyes Google Fiber deployment warily

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/big-content-eyes-google-fiber-deployment-in-kansas-city-warily.ars

DOJ clears Google of WiFi wiretapping violations

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/28/justice-department-clears-google-of-wifi-wiretapping 

Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/google-releases-full-details-of-fcc-investigation-into-street-view-wifi-snooping.ars 

Anonymous engineer responsible outed

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/01/1241225/data-engineer-in-google-case-is-identified

Oracle Vs Google (it's getting hard to tell these articles apart)

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/google-oracle-experts/ 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/oracle-president-testifies-jury-told-to-assume-apis-are-copyrightable.ars 
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/gosling-slime/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/oracle-google-await-verdict/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/fair-use-or-first-excuse-oracle-v-google-goes-to-the-jury.ars

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/jury-google-oracle/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/judge-oracle-google-audience/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/oracle-google-judge-asks-for-comment-on-eu-court-ruling.ars

Data innovation in European journalism

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/supporting-data-innovation-in.html 

Google patent app for NFC sharing between devices

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/01/google-beam-patent-nfc 

French group sues because Google Suggest thinks Jon Hamm is Jewish

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/french-group-sues-because-google-suggest-thinks-jon-hamm-is-jewish.ars 

Doodle 4 Google state winners

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/doodle-4-google-state-winnersand-time.html 

EU privacy police say Google "duped" them over street view

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/european-privacy-police-say-google-duped-them-over-street-view.ars 

Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/70-young-women-recognized-as-google.html 

Android Keg

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/04/because-your-beer-wasnt-geeky-enough-before/

--Adam

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Adam Nave, CISSP
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Macalester College

[Lloyd Cledwyn]

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From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: May 11, 2012 9:07:11 AM CDT
To: ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>,  Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>
Subject: Friday Google updates

Some big G+ announcements this week, plus the Oracle vs Google trial has a lot of nasty implications.

Google Apps Updates

Google+ Hangouts On Air available to all users

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your.html 

Better G+ notifications in Gmail

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/better-google-notification-experience.html 

Google+ mobile app improvements (version 2.0)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-mobile-app-with-sense-and-soul.html 

Google apps sync for Outlook 3.1

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-apps-sync-for-microsoft-outlook.html 

Other Google Updates

Getting started with Google Cloud Print

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2012/05/getting-started-with-cloud-print/ 

Google's earliest Android dev phone

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/06/early-android-build-walkthrough-google-sooner-pre-m3 

Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/google-gets-license-to-test-drive-autonomous-cars-on-nevada-roads/ 

How Google's self-driving car works

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works/ 

Gmail vault (third party tool for email backup, migration)

http://gmvault.org/ 

Project Glass testing

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/08/googles-vic-gundotra-tries-project-glass-on-for-size/ 

First signs of Google's "semantic search" spotted

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/09/google-semantic-search 

Maps for Android now has indoor walking directions and maps Google Offers

http://lifehacker.com/5908955/google-maps-on-android-now-offers-indoor-walking-directions-and-maps-out-google-offers 

Hands on with ChromeOS's new Aura interface

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/04/hands-on-getting-work-done-with-googles-new-aura-interface-for-chrome-os 

Google Policy/Privacy/Politics

Google may face massive FTC fine for bypassing Safari privacy controls

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/google-may-face-massive-fine-from-ftc-for-bypassing-safari-privacy-controls/

In Australia, Google pays $74k tax on claimed revenues of $200 million

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/05/0131228/in-australia-google-pays-just-74k-tax-on-claimed-revenues-of-200-million

FBI reportedly pressing for backdoor access to FB, Google

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/05/fbi-wants-social-network-wiretap 

How Google's ethical ignorance gets it in trouble

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/googles-street-view-engineer-knew-data-collection-was-questionable/ 

Oracle vs Google

Google guilty of infringement in Android trial; future legal headaches loom

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial/

Judge declines to rule that Google pillaged Java

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/judge-denies-oracles-request/

Judge moves to nix damages phase of trial

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/damages-oracle-google/

India launches antitrust investigation against Google

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/07/india-launches-antitrust-investigation-against-google

Is Google the new Microsoft?

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/06/155204/is-google-the-new-microsoft

How Romanian fortune tellers used Google to fleece victims

http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/05/06/0045229/how-romanian-fortune-tellers-used-google-to-fleece-victims

Celebrating teachers on National Teacher day

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-teachers-on-national.html

Accelerating diversity in entrepreneurship

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/accelerating-diversity-in.html

Supporting innovation in African news

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/supporting-innovation-in-african-news.html

Google patents jukebox voting system

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/09/163202/google-patents-using-iphones-to-kill-free-bird

Google guide to summer vacation

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-guide-to-summer-vacation.html

Celebrating our super-mom users

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-our-super-mom-users.html

Complaint challenges U of Hawaii email partnership with Google

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/1548224/complaint-challenges-univ-of-hawaii-email-partnership-wth-google