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NEWS ABOUT: Google Apps

Google Apps stories: 14 news summaries

 Microsoft to Give Away 
 New Web-Based Office 

Goes head-to-head with Google's online apps

Jul 13, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft, the “king of paid software,” is going free with an online version of Office next year, Fortune reports. “The sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat,” writes Jon Fortt. Microsoft is risking “cannibalizing its own Office business,” but... More »

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Microsoft • free • Microsoft Office • Google Apps

(Newser) - From an A-shaped street crossing to a building in the form of a Z, an Australian man has spelled out the alphabet using Google Earth. Rhett Dashwood spent 6 months painstakingly scanning satellite images of his native state, Victoria, and found buildings or geographical landmarks in the shape of all... More »

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Google Earth • alphabet • Google Apps

TECH REVIEW

New Google Voice Offering a 'Dutiful but Klutzy Secretary'

Features like voicemail transcription are great, but far from flawless

Apr 6, 09 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google’s Voice feature, offered in free beta for now, bundles all your phone numbers into one “Google number,” and records, transcribes, emails, and archives voicemails, allowing you to respond via texts sent from your computer. It “has some brilliant features,” Courtney Banks writes in the... More »

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Google • cell phones • reviews • telecommunications • Google Apps • voicemail • Google Voice

Google 'Latitude' Knows Where You and Your Friends Are

Mobile app uses GPS, cell towers, networks

Feb 4, 09 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Google’s newest mobile app—Latitude—allows users to keep track of where they, and their friends, are at all times, reports CNET. The phone-based application debuts today and opens up a new vista for social networking. The software allows users—tracked via GPS and by proximity to phone towers... More »

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Google • Google Earth • Google Maps • Google Apps • location-based services • Google Latitude

OPINION

 Google Quietly Conquers 
 With Irresistible Apps 

Columnist worries about being so tied to giant, but everything just works so well

Nov 24, 08 10:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Despite near-total lack of marketing, Google finds its way into Web lovers’ hearts with an irresistible bundle of applications. “Having grown up in the vapor trail of the ’60s, I learned to be wary of large, centralized organizations,” David Carr writes in the New York Times. “... More »

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Google • marketing • search engine • Google Apps • computing

PRODUCT REVIEW

Google Phone's Appetizing App Menu Is Functional, Too

Not as snazzy as iPhone, and memory is an issue, but open model sure to keep offerings sharp

Oct 22, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Google’s G1 smartphone making this week’s big tech splash, Katherine Boehret, in the Wall Street Journal, takes a look at some of the applications on offer, finding them “useful, entertaining, and mostly straightforward.” Of those she tested from the Android Market, “the G1's apps... More »

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Google • iPhone • smartphones • Google Apps • Google Android • T-Mobile • Android Market

Google Will Unveil
Android Phone Next Week

First glance at iPhone competitor

Sep 17, 08 3:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google’s hyped Android phone will make its debut next week in New York, the Los Angeles Times reports. Google and T-Mobile—the gadget's first carrier—plan a press conference  to show off the handset, a new rival for the iPhone and Blackberry. The "G1” won’t go on... More »

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Google • iPhone • BlackBerry • Google phone • smartphones • Google Apps • Google Android • T-Mobile

Google's Smartphone
Slated for This Fall

The search-giant's Android operating system to rival Apple's

Aug 15, 08 11:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google’s long-rumored Android-powered smartphone could have customers surfing the Web and chatting by as early as October, the New York Times reports. The gadget, the product of a partnership between T-Mobile and HTC, is expected to challenge Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones that offer PC-like functions as well... More »

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Google • iPhone • Eric Schmidt • Google phone • smartphones • Google Apps • Google Android • T-Mobile • HTC

 Search Feature Riles Retailers 

New search-within-search feature serves users well, but merchants are steamed

Mar 24, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google has some other companies up in arms with a new feature that keeps the search engine front and center even when results are coming from a merchant’s website, the New York Times reports. Google’s new search-within-search feature brings up a search box that keeps the user with... More »

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Google • website • Google Apps • online shopping • online search

Google Health Will Be Ad-Free

Medical-records service now being tested will profit by increasing search traffic

Mar 1, 08 10:02 AM CST
(Newser) - The newest member of the Google family, Google Health, will not have advertising, CEO Eric Schmidt said this week, but will earn its keep from the traffic it draws to the company’s search engine. The new service stores health records, allowing users to share test results, prescriptions and other... More »

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health care • Google • online privacy • Google Apps • medical records • Google Health

Google Sites App Again Targets Microsoft Office

Program allows workgroups to create online media

Feb 28, 08 11:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Google hopes to make another dent in Microsoft’s productivity empire with a new application: Google Sites. The program lets workgroups create multimedia web content, and rivals Microsoft’s $1-billion-a-year SharePoint, the New York Times reports. It joins Google apps for email, word processing, and more in an assault on... More »

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Microsoft Office • Google Apps • Google Sites • productivity applications • Web apps • Microsoft SharePoint

Google Invests
in Cloud Computing

Internet giant wants everyone to do everything online

Nov 13, 07 10:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Google has hands in a lot of pies, from maps to email to spreadsheets and now, with Android and OpenSocial, to cellphones and MySpace. But it all relates to one strategy, the Washington Post says. Google wants to make the web so useful that everyone does everything online. In this... More »

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Google • Google Maps • Google Apps • OpenSocial • Android • cloud computing

Vista, Office Spur Microsoft to Huge Growth

23% gains in first quarter; new PC
sales drive gains

Oct 26, 07 3:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft yesterday reported a 23% leap in net income and its best revenue growth since the dot-com boom, making it an isolated winner in a tumbling market. The announcement drove up the company's shares 10% in after-hours trading. The sales of new PCs with Windows installed helped drive the gains,... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Microsoft Windows • earnings reports • Microsoft Vista • software • Xbox 360 • Microsoft Office • Halo 3 • Microsoft Live Search • Google Apps • Internet advertising • computer

Microsoft Deal Overshadows Google's Analyst Day

Facebook deal dominates conversation, irritates execs

Oct 25, 07 12:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google made some noteworthy announcements at its Google Analyst Day yesterday, but they were overshadowed by Microsoft's announcement earlier in the day that it was acquiring a $240 million stake in Facebook, a prize for which the two companies had reportedly engaged in a heated bidding war. Among Google's news:... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Facebook • DoubleClick • search engine marketing • Google phone • Google Apps

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