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From: Adam Nave
Date: Friday, August 31, 2012
Subject: Friday Google updates
To: kkol...@macalester.edu, ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>, Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>

Google Apps
Updates to core Google Apps, Admin Control Panel and the major services like Google+. Also major updates that may affect our user community.

G+ "enterprise preview" adds some new walls for G+ so less open organizations can actually use them.

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/08/bringing-google-to-work-preview-of.html

Hangouts in GCal events

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/08/hangouts-in-google-calendar-events.html

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/hangouts-in-google-calendar.html

More ChromeOS management options

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/chrome-os-management-console-update.html

Google Technology
News about other Google products and technology.

Android in space: NASA's PhoneSat project

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/crosscutting_capability/edison/phonesat.html

Content hosting for the modern web (security)

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/08/content-hosting-for-modern-web.html

Half a gigameter of biking navigation in 12 countries in Google Maps for Android

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/half-gigameter-of-biking-navigation-in.html

Google Now update brings more stuff

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/29/google-now-emergency-alerts-sports-movies/

How Google uses desktop linux in-house

http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/

Google Play starts recommending content on Android devices

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/30/google-play-starts-recommending-content-on-android-devices

Map Maker adds G+ sharing

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/google-map-maker-adds-google-plus-sharing

Use Gmail and Docs to track anything

http://lifehacker.com/5939539/use-gmail-and-google-docs-to-track-anything

Google Business
Google Business news, including policies, user privacy, politics and legal issues.

Google outs list of people not paid to comment on Oracle suit

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google/

Apple vs Samsung jurors skipped prior art for "bogging us down"

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/26/146230/apple-v-samsung-jurors-speak-skipped-prior-art-for-bogging-us-down

Google on Apple vs Samsung: most infringed patents "don't relate to the core Android operating system'

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/27/google-responds-to-apple-v-samsung-verdict

Apple strikes licensing deal with Motorola in Germany

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/28/apple-strikes-licensing-deal-with-motorola-in-germany

Google patents automatic object recognition in videos

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/28/google-lands-patent-for-automatic-object-recognition-in-videos/

Google Extra
Other Google side projects, including art, science and fun stuff.

Google Hurricane Isaac site

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/27/1933255/google-launches-hurricane-isaac-site

Google US election stuff

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/making-it-easier-to-cast-your-ballot.html

Amazon's Kindle Fire and Touch are totally sold out, announcement coming soon

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/30/kindle-fire-sold-out/

California legislators pass law to allow robotic cars on public roads

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/robot-cars-on-public-roads-california-says-yes

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From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Subject: Friday Google updates
To: kkol...@macalester.edu, ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>, Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>

Google Apps
Updates to core Google Apps, Admin Control Panel and the major services like Google+. Also major updates that may affect our user community.

Gmail advanced search gets more autocomplete, more labs become standard

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/gmail-advanced-search-gets-autocomplete-to-from-and-to-field

Spreadsheets now have comment discussions (great feature)

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-spreadsheets-now-with-discussions.html

Export Docs in the new Microsoft formats - docx, pptx, xlsx

Important: old export formats (doc, xls, ppt) are going away!

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/export-google-documents-as-docx.html

Google Technology
News about other Google products and technology.

Google extends patent search to prior art

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/03/144200/google-extends-patent-search-to-prior-art

Google pulls weather API

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/09/03/2331203/google-pulls-access-to-unsupported-but-popular-weather-api

The man who is rewiring Google

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/meet-the-man-whos-rewiring-google-from-the-inside-out/