Fwd: Friday Google updates

[Lloyd Cledwyn]

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

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Nave <na...@macalester.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:50 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.

Drive updates for iOS and Android

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-drive-updates-for-ios-and-android.html 

Google Course Builder

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/11/google-releases-course-builder/ 

Nicknames for Google Groups

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/nicknames-for-google-groups.html 

Favorite 3rd-party apps for Drive

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/09/thirdpartyappsseries1.html 

Google Technology
News about other Google products and technology.

Google Fiber will hit 89% of neighborhoods

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/google-fiber-will-hit-89-of-neighborhoods-some-poor-areas-miss-out 

Google Fiber TV service

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/google-fiber-tv-abc-espn-disney/ 

Google's Pluto Swtich

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/pluto-switch/ 

For Android users, 2012 is still the year of Gingerbread (2.3)

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/08/028220/for-android-users-2012-is-still-the-year-of-gingerbread 

How Google Maps get made

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/08/google-maps-creation-put-under-the-microscope 

10 more Google shortcuts

http://lifehacker.com/5941837/10-more-google-shortcuts-to-hone-your-google+fu 

YouTube app for iOS

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/introducing-new-youtube-app-for-your.html 

Hands-on

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/hands-on-googles-new-youtube-app-improves-on-apples-offering 

WSJ's early look at Project Glass

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/wsj-early-look-at-google-project-glass/

Chrome for Android improvements

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/google-chrome-android-update/

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

Germany's former First Lady sues Google

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/10/1158216/germanys-former-first-lady-sues-google 

Google reinvents micropayments as "surveywall" (a paywall but with surveys)
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/10/0215240/google-reinvents-micropayments-as-surveywall 

Google Wallet phasing out prepaid cards

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/10/google-wallet-to-phase-out-prepaid-card 

Google VP calls Apple vs Samsung verdict a "wake-up call"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/google-vp-says-apple-v-samsung-verdict-was-a-wake-up-call 

Getting businesses online

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/getting-americas-businesses-online.html 

Apple wins German ban against Motorola

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/apple-wins-german-ban-against-motorola-can-pay-e25m-to-enforce-it 

Report: Google threatened Acer, forced it to dump rival OS

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/report-google-threatened-acer-forced-it-to-dump-rival-os 

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

Google Glass at NY Fashion Week

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/10/google-glass-new-york-fashion-week

Google Play pays for 4k free Boingo hotspots through Sept

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/11/google-play-foots-the-bill-for-4-000-free-boingo-hotspots

Maps shows how we spent our summer

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-maps-shows-how-we-spent-summer.html

Some more (big) schools go Google

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-new-way-of-doing-things-on-campus.html

--Adam

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Adam Nave, CISSP
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Macalester College