Fwd: Friday Google updates

[Lloyd Cledwyn]

Lloyd Cledwyn
Director of  Advancement  I.T.| 651.696.6594 | cle...@macalester.edu

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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

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/google-expands-sms-support-to-over-41-countries-lets-you-stay 

Top 10 clever tricks built right into gmail

http://lifehacker.com/5903974/top-10-clever-tricks-built-right-into-gmail

New gmail features: people widget, more G+ integration

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-gmail-features-youtube-video-image.html

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

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/gmail-now-with-10-gb-of-storage-and.html

Google Docs storage bumped to 5 GB in preparation for Drive

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-docs-increases-free-storage-to-5gb

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

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-yes-really.html

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-product-google-drive.html

Administrator-managed Drive storage

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/04/administrator-managed-google-drive.html

Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-version-of-google-apps-connector.html

New: Contacts Delegation

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-feature-contacts-delegation.html

Other Google Updates

More spring cleaning (services being deactivated)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html 

Accountability, not code quality, makes iOS safer than Android

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/21/1246249/accountability-not-code-quality-makes-ios-safer-than-android 

More rewards for discovering Google vulnerabilities

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/04/spurring-more-vulnerability-research.html 

Bug hunters weigh in on Google's Vulnerability Reporting Program

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/2139230/bug-bounty-hunters-weigh-in-on-googles-vulnerability-reporting-program

Android trojan steals keystrokes using phone movements

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/android-trojan-steals-keystrokes-using-phone-movements.ars 

Google selling phones again

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-sells-phones-again.html 

More Google Drive stuff

Google Drive SDK and API info

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/google-drive-sdk-announced-but-apis-are-only-accesible-to-web-apps-for-now.ars

 

If you bought extra storage before, you get it in Drive too

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-drive-extra-storage-gmail

Keep it for long-term savings: http://lifehacker.com/5905357/keep-your-paid-gmail-or-picasa-storage-plan-for-incredibly-cheap-google-drive-storage

 

Drive hands-on

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-drive-hands-on/

Drive vs Dropbox

http://lifehacker.com/5904731/desktop-file-syncing-faceoff-dropbox-vs-google-drive

Drive coming to Linux

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/google-drive-is-coming-to-linux-tells-users-to-hang-tight

Drive uses Google Goggles

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-drive-goggles.html

GDrive to meld with Chrome OS

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/google-gdrive-chrome-os/

Chrome and Drive's third-party apps

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/chrome-and-google-drives-third-party.html

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

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers.ars

Google Docs quick apply feature added, then removed

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-docs-tests-quick-apply-feature.html

Docs experiments with a font manager (also removed)

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-docs-experiments-with-font.html

Google explains how it can search so fast

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-explains-how-it-searches-the-internet-in-under-half-a-sec/

Google and the future of travel

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/0212253/google-and-the-future-of-travel

New G+ share button

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/google-plus-share-button-launched

Is Siri smarter than Google?

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/2310209/is-siri-smarter-than-google

Google Maps photo tours

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/google-maps-photo-tours/

Google gunning for web spammers

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/26/google-targets-seo-spam

Google seeks car making partners

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/26/google-seeks-car-partners/

Google bringing $300 million data center to Iowa

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/26/google-bringing-extra-bytes-to-hawkeye-state-with-300-million-d

Google sells SketchUp

http://arstechnica.com/getting-it-done/2012/04/heads-up-3d-modellers-googles-sketchup-sold-to-trimble.ars

Translate serving over 200 million people per month

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/26/google-translate-now-serving-over-200-million-people-per-month

Six years of Translate

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/breaking-down-language-barriersix-years.html

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

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/26/comscore-kindle-fire-android-tablet-market-share

Google Policy/Privacy/Politics

Inside view on ads review

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/inside-view-on-ads-review.html

Jerusalem Old City street view

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/exploring-jerusalems-old-city-streets.html

Earth day at Google

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/planting-some-green-this-earth-day.html

Apple, Google, others face salary fixing lawsuit

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/22/1525212/apple-and-google-face-salary-fixing-lawsuit

YouTube Marketing ambassadors

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/youtube-marketing-ambassadors-play-big.html

Oracle vs Google:

Newly revived patent gives Oracle ammo

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/newly-revived-patent-gives-oracle-extra-ammunition-in-google-trial.ars 

Android founder grilled

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/android-founder-andy-rubin-grilled-by-oracle-lawyer-on-java-e-mails.ars

Sun wanted $50 million for Google Java license

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/sun-wanted-up-to-50-million-from-google-for-java-license-schmidt-says.ars

Schmidt defends Android in Oracle trial

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/eric-schmidt-oracle-trial/

Oracle asks for right to assert third patent against Google

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/oracle-asks-court-for-right-to-assert-third-patent-against-google.ars

Original Android prototype revealed

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/oraclegoogle-trial-android-prototype-proposed-999-data-plan-revealed.ars

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

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/judge-to-oracle-no-you-cant-assert-another-patent-against-google.ars

Google asks for judgement on Java copyrights

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/google-tries-to-destroy-oracles-case-asks-for-judgment-on-java-copyrights.ar

Google on track to outspend banks, big tobacco in lobbying

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/google-on-track-to-outspend-banks-big-tobacco-in-lobbying.ars

Google doodle for the zipper inventor

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-doodle-celebrates-gideon-sundback-zipper-inventor

Google Photography Prize 2012 winner

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-photography-prize-2012-winner.html

What's next for Google Ideas

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/from-countering-radicalization-to.html

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

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/your-google-drive-files-now-in-googles-promo-materials.ars

Entrepreneurship in Nashville

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/in-nashville-sweet-sound-of.html

Zerg Rush!

https://www.google.com/search?q=zerg+rush&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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Adam Nave, CISSP
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Macalester College