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Lloyd Cledwyn
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From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Subject: Friday Google updates
To: ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>, Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>


A busy week. Google Drive launches, the Oracle vs Google trial continues and Google sells off SketchUp.


Google Apps Updates

G+ expands SMS support in chat to over 41 countries

Top 10 clever tricks built right into gmail

New gmail features: people widget, more G+ integration

Gmail ups regular user storage to 10 GB (Apps for EDU still at 25 GB)

Google Docs storage bumped to 5 GB in preparation for Drive

Introducing Google Drive... yes, really  (Google Drive is a new core service that replaces Docs)

Administrator-managed Drive storage

Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server

New: Contacts Delegation

Other Google Updates

More spring cleaning (services being deactivated)

Accountability, not code quality, makes iOS safer than Android

More rewards for discovering Google vulnerabilities

Bug hunters weigh in on Google's Vulnerability Reporting Program

Android trojan steals keystrokes using phone movements

More Google Drive stuff
Google Drive SDK and API info
If you bought extra storage before, you get it in Drive too
Drive hands-on

Drive vs Dropbox

Drive coming to Linux

Drive uses Google Goggles

GDrive to meld with Chrome OS

Chrome and Drive's third-party apps

Cloud Storage (for end users) feature comparison (GDrive, Dropbox, Box.net, etc.)

Google Docs quick apply feature added, then removed

Google explains how it can search so fast

Google and the future of travel


Is Siri smarter than Google?

Google Maps photo tours

Google gunning for web spammers

Google seeks car making partners

Google bringing $300 million data center to Iowa

Google sells SketchUp

Translate serving over 200 million people per month

Six years of Translate

Kindle Fire at more than 50% of US Android tablet market share

Google Policy/Privacy/Politics

Inside view on ads review

Jerusalem Old City street view

Earth day at Google

Apple, Google, others face salary fixing lawsuit

YouTube Marketing ambassadors

Oracle vs Google:
Newly revived patent gives Oracle ammo

Android founder grilled

Sun wanted $50 million for Google Java license

Schmidt defends Android in Oracle trial

Oracle asks for right to assert third patent against Google

Original Android prototype revealed

Judge to Oracle: No, you can't assert another patent

Google asks for judgement on Java copyrights

Google on track to outspend banks, big tobacco in lobbying

Google doodle for the zipper inventor

Google Photography Prize 2012 winner

What's next for Google Ideas

Google Drive privacy concerns (this one of the articles that gets it right, not the alarmist BS)

Entrepreneurship in Nashville

Zerg Rush!

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Adam Nave, CISSP
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Macalester College



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