Google comes back to the ground with Google Apps offline access

On September 8, 2011, In Gmail, Google Apps, Google Docs, Latest News, Uncategorized, By The Google Bee

Offline access has been the top requested Google Apps feature for quite some time now, especially after Google withdrew offline access through Google Gears last year to concentrate on HTML5 based technology. Finally, the promised offline access capability has been announced by Google. Offline Gmail access is available through a web app in the Chrome Web Store, and offline access to Google Calendars and Docs is seamlessly available through the same interfaces even if the net connection is off. 

However, as Microsoft was quick to point out, offline access capabilities are severely limited. For one, offline Gmail access is a stripped down version of regular Gmail, and is accessible only through a specific version of Chrome used by less than 2% of browser users. On the other hand, users only get read only access to Google Docs online. 

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Fight Google and Microsoft, Fight!

On May 6, 2011, In Google Apps, Google Docs, Google vs. Microsoft, By The Google Bee

One cant help but giggle in glee when the gorillas of tech, Google and Microsoft, fight it out. It is THE tech battle of our times. The fights have been growing particularly vicious over the last month around the time Microsoft released the public beta of Office 365, the rebranded version of BPOS, its online communication and collaboration suite. Although Google does not have a substantial presence in the business market yet with Google Apps, Microsoft sees it as a big threat in the future, which explains its recent attempts to thump down Google's products. 

Punch 1) Microsoft accuses Google of lying about Apps for government. This can be seen as Microsoft's revenge for the Google Apps suit last year, where it sued the Department of Interior for allegedly giving Microsoft an unfair advantage in its bidding process. Google went on to win an injuction in that suit. One of Google's points was that Microsoft's solution lacked FISMA, the security certification required the government for government contracts. Waiting for a chance to bite back, earlier this month, Microsoft accused Google of lying about having FISMA for its Google Apps for Government. 

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Oracle Joins the Messy Web Productivity Suite Market with Cloud Office

On December 21, 2010, In Google Apps, Google Docs, Google vs. Microsoft, Latest News, MS Office Web Apps, Opinions, By The Google Bee

The web productivity / collaboration / workspace / office (call it what you may) market never fails to confound me. It is perplexing to try and make out who is collaborating with who, and with what product.

Anyway, first things first.

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Convert Files Stored in Google Docs

On August 17, 2010, In Google Apps, Google Docs, Latest News, By The Google Bee

A few months ago, Google Apps added the ability to store multiple file types to Google Docs. Not quite the GDrive that the market was expecting, but a nifty and useful feature nonetheless (Memeo did in fact launch a service called the GDrive for Google Docs later).

Now, Google has introduced the ability to convert the files stored in Google Docs to Google Docs online formats. There are two ways to do this:-

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Google and My Tech Life – by Kevin Tea

On August 11, 2010, In Google Apps, Google Docs, Guest Contributor, Opinions, By guest
Kevin Tea has more than 30 years senior journalistic and marketing communications experience, working with some of the leading newspaper groups and blue chip companies in the UK. Working with the European Commision; contributing to Webweaving, where Bill Gates also contributed; or managing various tech e-journals are some of the feathers on his cap. Currently, his time is distributed between offering a wide range of consultancy, PR and marketing communications services as an independent consultant and covering the web2.0 collaboration market at web2andmore.net.

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Google Further Fine Tunes Google Docs Permissions

On June 17, 2010, In Google Apps, Google Docs, Latest News, Uncategorized, By The Google Bee

One of the main arguments presented against Google Apps in the enterprise is a lack of the ability to implement policy controls and fine grained permissions to data. And to a certain extent, this holds true. For example, you cannot share contacts with specific groups, Google Apps Sync does not allow you shared group calendars within Outlook, there are no shared tasks and so on.

But in its continuing effort to make its suite more robust, and incorporate feedback, Google just introduced new sharing options within Google Docs. The new options are as follows:-

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Memeo Launches the GDrive – And a Big Question

On June 17, 2010, In Google Docs, Latest News, Uncategorized, By The Google Bee

Memeo launched today what the media is describing as the Memeo's take on the "GDrive". GDrive is the much anticipated service everybody expected Google to launch on the lines of Microsoft's SkyDrive, an online service which allows you to store large amounts of data online.

Although Google never launched the GDrive, Memeo has called its new service the GDrive, a drive which integrates and fits into the local file structure of both Windows Explorer and the OS X finder. Formerly Memeo users could access Google Docs right on their desktop using Memeo's client, but now the GDrive lets them drag and drop upload files and folders to their Google Docs account. On the other hand, they can open and edit Google Docs files locally like any other file.

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Office Web Apps Ready for You to Take for a Spin

On June 8, 2010, In Google Docs, Google vs. Microsoft, Latest News, MS Office Web Apps, By The Google Bee

Today, Microsoft made Office Web Apps available for everybody to check out, use, collaborate or do whatever they want with it. This closely follows Microsoft's May 12 launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Users just need to access their live.com account, and will find options that allow them to start creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

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Trying Google Docs just got incredibly simple!

On June 4, 2010, In Google Apps, Google Docs, Google vs. Microsoft, Latest News, By The Google Bee

Attention starved as we are, the biggest inertia we have to get over before trying a new service is the cumbersome registration process. Sensing this, and part of the latest move by Google Apps to create new customer-magnetic marketing tools (remember the cloud calculator), Google just made testing Google Docs simple, like, REAL simple.

All you need to do is visit the Google Docs demo page (docs.google.com/demo) and start typing away in a Google Docs document open right in front of you. No registration required, no Google Account required. WOW! Similarly you can start working on spreadsheets, or even drawings. if you want to collaborate with someone else in real time, just share the link with them.

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