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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Google had launched its web page creation service, Google Sites, for Google Apps customers earlier this year. Now, Google Sites service has been opened for all and anyone can create websites with an easy to use wizard. To create a website with Google Sites, you just need to enter the name of the site, select [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Google Docs has released a new feature in its Spreadsheet application which allows for embedding the Forms in web pages. Earlier, the users were restricted to sending forms and inviting others to fill out the form through email. It is a handy feature for creating and embedding polls and surveys in your website as it [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Google has launched a useful resource for web developers, Google Doctype, which is a kind of Wikipedia for web development resources. You can find, edit and contribute articles related to Web security, CSS, DOM manipulation and other how-to articles and tips and tricks related to web development. All the content available right now on Google [...]
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
IBM and Google have joined hands to launch a cloud computing service focused on medium to small sized businesses in the next year. They will jointly set up a global network of Linux based servers which will use Xen virtualization and Apache Hadoop. In October 2007, both the companies started deploying their cloud computing platform [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Zoho, the company which makes online business, collaboration and productivity applications, has now integrated the facility of using your Google and Yahoo accounts to sign in to your Zoho account. If you already have a Zoho account, you can link it to your Google or Yahoo account. If you don’t have a Zoho account, you [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Google really wants to push its Android mobile application platform and for that it needs open standards in mobile broadband. With this view in mind, Google had participated in FCC spectrum auction which it eventually lost to Verizon. Though it is true that Google wanted to lose the auction because it will surely not want [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Google has added a new feature in Google Maps API which provides accurate results for over 50 million addresses in the U.S. Aptly named, rooftop geocoding, the service lets you exactly point the map marker on the roof of any house or building using the street address. A useful feature for finding the exact location [...]
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Mobile phones have become an inevitable tool for communication and keeping up with information. With the availability of WAP and regular browsers on mobile phones, a lot of people consume Internet content while on the go. There are services using which you can create a new mobile site, convert your existing blog or website into [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Google has introduced two more features in its Presentation service in addition to the the offline access for presentations. Now, you can include Speaker Notes in your presentations and access them in a separate window while presenting or print them. The other feature is the ability to insert YouTube videos in the presentations. The videos [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008

On April 1st, Google had announced offline access for word processing documents in the Google Docs package. Today, Google has announced that the same feature has been extended to cover spreadsheets and presentations as well. The offline access to Google Docs is powered by Google Gears and is a very handy feature for people who [...]