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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, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:27 AM
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.

IE 8 (last version of IE on XP) support will be discontinued 11/15/2012

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/supporting-modern-browsers-internet.html

Welcome to Google Drive (everyone is in the opt-out phase now)

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-drive-is-new-home-for-all-your.html

Greater accessibility for Google Apps

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/greater-accessibility-for-google-apps.html

Import emails and contacts from other webmail systems

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/import-emails-and-contacts-from-other.html

Google Technology
News about other Google products and technology.

Do Not Track support coming to Chrome

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/do-not-track-support-added-to-chrome-arriving-by-the-end-of-the-year

How to sideload android apps

http://lifehacker.com/5943562/how-to-sideload-android-apps

Java to iOS source code translator

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/17/google-releases-new-java-to-ios-source-code-translator

OAuth 2.0 for IMAP, chat

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/09/adding-oauth-20-support-for-imapsmtp.html

Google+ has 100M monthly active users, 400M registered

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/17/as-predicted-google-passes-400m-registered-users-now-100m-monthly-active-users/

Google Spanner (massive db)

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/google-spanner/

More movies and TV from 20th Century Fox to Google Play and YouTube

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/more-movies-and-tv-shows-from-twentieth.html

Make Google and iOS work together

http://lifehacker.com/5944188/get-google-and-ios-living-together-in-perfect-harmony

Find out more about Chrome Sync data and how to clear it

http://lifehacker.com/5944186/find-out-more-about-your-chrome-sync-data-and-how-to-clear-it

Maps for Android update brings full location search history

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/19/google-maps-for-android-update-brings-your-full-location-search

Lenovo axes their own app shop in favor of Google Play

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/20/lenovo-axes-app-shop

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

More on Google "blocking" Acer's alternate OS

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/google-blocked-acers-rival-phone-to-prevent-android-fragmentation

YouTube and the anti-Islamic film clip

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/1948225/youtube-refuses-to-remove-anti-islamic-film-clip

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/16/0235215/the-implications-of-google-restricting-access-to-anti-islam-film

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/17/0324213/google-blocks-innocence-of-muslim-video-in-indonesia-and-india

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/legal-bid-to-remove-anti-islam-film-from-youtube-denied

Google buys Snapspeed (instagram-like app)

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/17/google-buys-snapseed-developer-nik-software

Google bans online anonymity while patenting it

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1839230/google-bans-online-anonymity-while-patenting-it

The Internet Association

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/19/internet-association-members-announced

Google Motorola asks ITC for ban on all Macs, iPad and most iPhones (I guess they decided to play hardball after all the recent patent issues.)

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/motorola-asks-itc-to-ban-every-mac-ipad-and-most-iphones

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

Google Glass: The future of movies or Monkey Cam 2.0?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/15/0115255/google-glass-future-of-movies-or-monkey-cam-20

A Chrome experiment from Cirque du Soleil

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/moving-singing-and-dreaming-with-chrome.html

Hanging out for Peace: Jewish-Arab dialogue in Israel

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/hanging-out-for-jewish-arab-dialogue-in.html

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

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Subject: Friday Google updates
To: 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's Priority Inbox vs Apple's VIP

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/gmails-priority-inbox-v-apples-vip-fight

Comments in Sites are now powered by Discussions (G+ integration)

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/comments-in-sites-are-now-powered-by.html

CardDAV support for contacts (like in iOS)

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/google-contacts-carddav-protocol-support

YouTube in Takeout

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/google-adds-youtube-to-takeout-data-transfer-tool

Reminder: Docs no longer exports files in the old MS Office formats

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-docs-no-longer-exports-files-in.html

Google Technology
News about other Google products and technology.