Google Docs has just added a couple of cool new features: translation and the ability to remove smartquotes in documents (coming soon). This tweak comes on the heels of a major overhaul to the program, as well as new sharing/privacy options . Let’s say you have a penpal in France, and you want to send your penpal a lovely note — written in his native language
Today Google is further enhancing its Google Docs product by releasing a mobile viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad users. The mobile docs viewer lets users view documents, zoom in and zoom out, navigate pages and download the document all via their mobile browser. Supported files type include PDF, .ppt, .doc and .doc.
Facebook’s quest for the world’s best technological talent continues. The social networking behemoth has hired Matt Papakipos — the leader and key architect of Google Chrome OS — and VMWare Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein onto its engineering team. To say that the resumes of Papakipos and Goldfein are impressive would be an understatement
This Web Faceoff series is supported by Buick. Last week, as part of our Web Faceoff series, we asked which you preferred: Google TV or Boxee ? Google TV trounced Boxee with 600 votes, or 51%.
In the immediate aftermath of a slew of new upgrades , Google Docs is changing how we share and control privacy for our documents, presentations and other stored files. The changes are intended to make sharing and collaboration simpler while also letting users see at a glance what people have access to which documents. Now, the level of privacy or publicity a document has is more readily visible, which should make managing who can share your docs a lot easier.
After years of development and beta testing , Microsoft Office 2010 is now available for purchase by consumers worldwide. Microsoft Office 2010 hits stores today with three versions: Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional.
In a recent survey of around 900 Internet and tech experts and social analysts, Elon University researchers found that most of their respondents said Internet users will “live mostly in the cloud” by 2020. These experts, or a full 71% of them, at least, predict we’ll be working primarily through web-based and mobile apps, such as Facebook and Google Docs, and less on software installed on our own desktops
In a move that seems like a challenge to Google’s suite of web-based office tools, Microsoft is
Correction: We quoted the NYT as saying the @BPGlobalPR account had more than 150,000 followers. “Leroy Stick” contacted us and says that this is incorrect. The account never had that many followers, “but I predict we will be the end of the day,” Stick says.
Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley spoke about experimenting with badge rewards yesterday at the Mashable Media Summit, and today we learned that Bravo TV is one of the first big brands to test the idea with its Foursquare followers.
