Google Launches Google Drive With Free 5Gb Storage
Google Drive, cloud based storage service is now launched with 5GB of free storage space for users. It is available on Android, iOS, PC, and Mac.
Google Drive features:
- you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.
- works with GMail and Google+.
- has a powerful search engine that can recognize objects in your images and text in scanned documents.
- view and open 30 filetypes including HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
- share files with your favourite apps.
- start a discussion.
- go back in time to track documents - look back as far as 30 days automatically, or choose a revision to save forever.
The current leader in this field is DropBox and they will have to watch out for Google’s integration of Drive into Google products such as GMail, Play, etc.
Google Going After DropBox With Google Drive
Google Drive, cloud based storage service should launch next week, with 5GB of free storage space for users. It will be available on Android, iOS, PC, and Mac. The current leader in this field is DropBox and they will have to watch out for Google’s integration of Drive into Google products such as GMail, Play, etc.
Mozilla Launches Firefox 11 and Thunderbird 11
Mozilla has finally released Firefox 11 and Thunderbird 11. Firefox 11 features innovative visual layout tool called Tilt, a new live Style Editor, sync browser customisation and extensions, and more.
Mozilla also rolled out Thunderbird 11 this week which provides a variety of bug fixes for the email client. New features are changes to the user interface where tabs are placed at the top of the page. In the next update, Mozilla plans on launching instant messenger support within the email client like the one found on Gmail.
Google Launches Google Play
Google Play combines eBookstore, music, movies and apps into one online store. Users can go there to purchase music, movies, books, and apps at play.google.com, and those items will also be stored in the cloud. And the service will also be heavily Google+ integrated.
Website Loading Slower Than An Eye Blink Is Too Slow
According to a Google engineer, Arvind Jain, if your website is a scant 250 ms slower than a competitor is enough to send users away. Four out of five online users will click away if a video stalls while loading.
Google Updated New Privacy Policy On March 1
Google has removed more than 70 privacy documents and reducing it to just one. The company is doing this to improve the user experience across most Google products.
From Google blog:
The main change is for users with Google Accounts. Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience.
Google Valentine’s Doodle: Supports Gay Marriage
The Valentine’s Day Google Doodle is a one-minute animation, drawn with childlike innocence, it depicts a boy and girl fall in love, followed by a 5-second collage of couples embracing including at least one gay couple. This Google Doodle was a Valentine for all users including gay marriage supporters everywhere.
Firefox 10 Released
Mozilla has released Firefox 10, the latest iteration of its popular open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Mozilla is committed to release
a new version of the browser every 6 weeks.
What is new in version 10 is how Firefox handles extensions upon auto-updating to the new browser version. Firefox 10 for Android will have multitouch gesture support to the mobile browser.
YouTube Now Serving Over 4 Billion Videos Daily
Google announced that their video serving website, YouTube, has increased 25% video views over the past 8 months. That is equivalent to 4 billion videos daily. The increase comes from distribution avenues such as smartphones and tablets.
US Lawmakers Abandoning Anti-Privacy Bills
Eight U.S. lawmakers (Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Orrin Hatch of Utah, as well as Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland. Republican Representatives Ben Quayle of Arizona, Lee Terry of Nebraska and Dennis Ross of Florida, and Democratic Representative Tim Holden of Pennsylvania) will not support Hollywood-backed anti-piracy legislation as Wikipedia, Google, Facebook. and other websites protested the measures.
Wikipedia shut down their site for 24 hours to protest this bills. While Google replace their logo with a black box on their search site.
