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, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Subject: Friday Google updates
To: ITS Staff <its-...@lists.macalester.edu>, Johan Oberg <job...@macalester.edu>, Lloyd Cledwyn <cle...@macalester.edu>, Patrick Leder <le...@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.

Restrict admin rights to org units in Control Panel

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/12/restrict-admin-privileges-to.html

Schedule release track features (Dec 11)

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/12/scheduled-release-track-features-update.html

Note: since we're on the scheduled release track now, and I only do updates on Friday, some of you may want to start tracking the Google Apps Updates blog directly: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com (you can also use email, rss or twitter)

Why Gmail went down (on Dec 10)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/why-gmail-went-down-google-misconfigured-chromes-sync-server

Save to Drive Chrome extension

http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2012/12/introducing-save-to-drive-extension.html

Fusion Tables available as separate app again?

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/12/fusion-tables-available-for-google-apps.html

Goole Apps offers additional compliance options for EU data protection

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-apps-offers-additional.html

Security notifications for Google Accounts

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/12/security-notifications-for-google.html

Google Technology
News about other Google products and technology.

Google's card-style OneBoxes

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/12/googles-card-style-oneboxes.html

Google Now coming to Chrome

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/08/google-now-coming-to-chrome-browser

Google Reader, "constantly on the chopping block"

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-reader-constantly-on-chopping.html

Android's built-in malware scanner gets a failing grade

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/androids-built-in-malware-scanner-gets-a-failing-grade

What should I do now that Google Apps accounts are no longer free?

http://lifehacker.com/5967154/what-should-i-do-now-that-google-apps-accounts-are-no-longer-free

Use Google App Engine to get a Google Apps domain for free

http://lifehacker.com/5967336/use-google-app-engine-to-get-google-apps-for-your-domain-for-free

New YouTube UI on tablets, mobile

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/10/youtube-ui-tablets-android-app-mobile-site

According to Netflix, Google Fiber is 'the most consistently fast ISP in America'

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/netflix-isp-ranking-google-fiber-streaming

Google News UI for tablets

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/google-news-tablet-optimized

Google+ says Truman Capote, dead 28 years, writes for NYT (the article is actually about authorship detection)

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/12/google-says-truman-capote-dead-28-years-now-writes-for-the-nyt

Google Currents updates

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/12/google-updates-currents-android/

Google Image Search has new safesearch settings

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-safesearch-settings-for-google.html

How the Knowledge Graph changes search

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/2320245/googles-second-brain-how-the-knowledge-graph-changes-search

Helping webmasters with hacked sites

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/12/helping-webmasters-with-hacked-sites.html

Google Maps for iOS

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/12/google-maps-ios-app

Hands-on

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/13/google-maps-for-ios-hands-on

Google Maps is App Store's most popular free app after only 7 hours

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/13/google-maps-becomes-the-app-stores-most-popular-free-app-just-7-hours-after-launch

Google launches Maps SDK for iOS devs

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/13/google-launches-maps-sdk

Google has no plans to develop Win8 or Windows Phone apps, cites lack of users

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/13/google-no-plans-to-develop-windows-8-windows-phone-apps

Google adds confirmation click to mobile ads to combat fat fingers

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/14/google-adds-confirmation-click-to-mobile-ads-to-combat-accidenta

Google tests Flight Explorer tool

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/14/google-flight-explorer

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

Python creator leaves Google for Dropbox

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/12/07/2242237/python-creator-guido-van-rossum-leaves-google-for-dropbox

YouTube original programming on Virgin America flights

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/youtube-virgin-america

Apple and Google team up on Kodak patent bids

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/apple-google-said-to-be-pooling-500-million-for-kodak-patents

Nationwide Google Fiber deployment would cost $140 billion

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/08/1810244/nationwide-google-fiber-deployment-would-cost-140-billion

Google, others, ask courts to reject patents on abstract ideas

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/09/reject-abstract-patents/

Supporting Israel's "start-up nation"

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/supporting-israels-start-up-nation.html

Google shifts cash to Bermuda, avoids billions in taxes 

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/12/google-shifts-a-record-10b-to-bermuda-shell-firm-avoids-billions-in-taxes

FTC: Apple and Google need to improve privacy protection in kids' apps

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/ftc-apple-and-google-need-to-improve-privacy-protection-in-kids

Larry Page interview

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/google-ceo-larry-page-talks-apple-android-monetization-and-an-e

FTC to place limits on Google's use of standards patents

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/ftc-to-place-limits-on-googles-use-of-standards-patents

Schmidt says Google Fiber 'isn't just an experiment,' company 'trying to decide where to expand next'

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/12/google-fiber-eric-schmidt

Schmidt on growing Android's share

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/12/google-eric-schmidt-android-growth

Schmidt interview on tax avoidance, robots and Google Fiber

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/12/13/0056221/schmidt-on-why-tax-avoidance-is-good-robot-workers-and-google-fiber

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

Larry Page personally paying for free flu shots for SF bay area kids

https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/32xY3Z1zckL

Google Flights Easter eggs

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/12/funny-google-flights-messages.html

Honoring Ada Lovelace

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/honouring-computings-1843-visionary.html

Chromebooks for classrooms: $99 for the holidays

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/chromebooks-for-classrooms-99-for_10.html

Google Zeitgeist (Search in 2012)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/zeitgeist2012.html

The Black Marble (Google Maps and Earth night-time imagery)

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/black-marble-explore-the-earth-after-dark

The evolution of This Exquisite Forest

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evolution-of-this-exquisite-forest.html

Unleashing creativity in Google's CSI:Lab

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/unleashing-creativity-in-googles-csilab.html

Google loses Santa to Bing

http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/12/13/208214/google-loses-santa-to-bing

--Adam

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Adam Nave, CISSP
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Macalester College