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Google Rewrites Google Docs with HTML5 Focus to Unseat Microsoft Office

April 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Google April 12 said it has revised Google Docs using a new JavaScript layout engine and HTML5 to improve and speed up the document, drawing and spreadsheet editors in Docs.
Google is trying to make its Docs messaging and collaboration tools more suitable for today’s office workers, many of whom grew up working with Microsoft Office or IBM Lotus applications, which reside on users’ computers. However, Google is temporarily removing its Google Gears offline support for Docs beginning May 3. The idea is to improve Google’s offline functionality with more modern, HTML5-based Web browser technologies.
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Google
said it has rewritten the code for Google Docs, using a new JavaScript layout
engine and leaning heavily on HTML5 to improve and speed up the document,
drawing and spreadsheet editors in Docs.
The company, which unveiled the upgrades at the
company’s Atmosphere cloud computing event at…

Oracle Releases New Apps for Portfolio Management, Enterprise Docs

April 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Oracle continues its rapid release cycle for new products and updates with Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management 8 and AutoVue 20.0, designed for project portfolio management and document collaboration, respectively. These new products follow on the heels of Tuxedo 11g, which integrates technology from the company’s 2008 acquisition of BEA Systems.
– Oracle unveiled Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management 8, designed to assist
organizations in project portfolio management from conception through
execution, on April 6. This is just one of several Oracle product announcements
over the past few weeks, as the company seems to be stepping up its eff…

Google Docs Evolving to Storied GDrive With Access to Any File

January 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Google Jan. 12 took steps to make files more universally accessible through Google Docs, letting Google Apps users upload to Google Docs all file types up to 250 megabytes, including large graphic files, ZIP folders, RAW photos or personal videos shot from a smartphone. Essentially, Docs is now a universal storage repository. This proposition is not unlike the long-rumored GDrive, which since 2006 was believed to be as mythical as a unicorn until evidence of it was discovered in a Google Pack file almost one year ago. Google denies this move is a move toward the GDrive.
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Google Jan. 12 took steps to make files more universally
accessible through Google Docs, and in doing so, moved a step closer to the GDrive, which has been
lurking in the background at Google as an uber online file repository.
Google said that it is letting Google Apps users upload…

Google Docs Makeover Boosts Google’s Collaboration Chops

October 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Google augments its Google Docs suite, adding shared folders, batch file uploads and more than 50 other new features to make it more valuable for knowledge worker collaboration. The latest upgrades are the culmination of work Google has been doing for the last several months to position Docs less as a productivity suite targeted at taking down Microsoft Office’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, and more as the team collaboration application for Google Apps. Google expects that Google Wave will eventually let users pull all of their content from Google Apps into Wave, and possibly vice versa.
– Google Oct. 12 revamped its Google Docs word processing, spreadsheet and presentation
trio, refreshing Docs’ appearance and adding shared folders, batch file uploads
and more than 50 other new features to make it more valuable for knowledge
worker collaboration.
In Docs, colors have been changed…

Google Ramps Up Translation for Websites, Firefox Toolbar, Docs

October 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Google this week rolled out a Website translator gadget, an in-page translation capability for the new version of Google Toolbar for Firefox and new translation tools for Google Docs’ spreadsheets. These new translation features underscore how Google is really putting Google Translate to the test, but this will be a long, long process. There are thousands of languages around the world and every language has its own quirks and nuances that distinguish it from the others.
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Google announced three pieces of translation-related news
this week to make its Web services available in multiple languages and
celebrate International Translation Day Sept. 30.
Google released a Website translator gadget to help developers render their site content in 51
languag…

How to create PDF files online using Google Docs for free?

August 6th, 2009 | No Comments

PDF is very popular and easy file format to share documents online / offline. However, creating PDF files is not easy process. It require users to purchase and install premium PDF file creator software. Google Docs allows you to create basic PDF files without any need to purchase or install any software on the computer.
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How to: back up your Google Docs files

June 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

So we’re all happy that this newfangled technology called cloud computing has enabled us to work on our office files, on the fly, without the need to install those pesky and bloated office suites, right? Especially when we’re all using netbooks (like the first Asus Eee – those machines sure are handy to bring along, [...]