What is Google Chrome OS?
November 20, 2009
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Google Offers A 16 Terabyte Cloud Drive For $4,096 A Year
November 14, 2009Well, it’s not the mythical Google Drive, but it’s close. For a price. And assuming you only want to store pictures and emails.
Google tonight announced that it was drastically slashing prices while at the same time offering more storage pricing options for users of its services. Specifically, while Gmail users currently get about 7 gigabytes for free and Picasa users get about 1 gigabyte for free, both can now upgrade to 20 GB for just $5 a year. Previously, it cost $20 to get just 10 GB of additional service.
But what’s really pretty incredible is that Google has an option for you to buy up to 16 terabytes, yes, terabytes, of storage from them. As Google notes, that enough to store 8 million very high resolution photos. Considering that most consumers probably still have south of 500 gigabytes of storage in their home, that’s pretty massive.
Of course, you’ll pay for it: 16 TB will set you back $4,096 a year. But if you do something that requires you to store 16 TB of photos, you can probably afford that. And there are varying storage levels at different price points leading up to that. 8 TB is $2,048 a year, 4 TB is $1,024, and so forth.
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Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week
November 13, 2009Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.
What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a legion of engineers working on the not so glamorous task of building hardware drivers. And we’ve also heard conflicting rumors that Google is mostly relying on hardware manufacturers to create those drivers. Whatever the truth, and it’s likely in between, having a robust set of functioning drivers is extremely important to Chrome OS’s success. People will want to download this to whatever computer they use and have it just work.
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One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints
November 13, 2009I use Boot Camp on my Mac, and quite often I create files in Windows and want those files on the OS X side as well. It's a pain to take out a USB flash drive and copy the files there, reboot, and copy them again. If the files are large, emailing the files to yourself may not work either.
One solution is Dropbox. As Dropbox works on OS X, Windows, and Linux, all you have to do is install Dropbox on your Boot Camp Windows installation, then drop or save any files in theree; they will automatically transfer into OS X the next time you boot back into the Mac OS.
via One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints.
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New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google’s Free Services
November 2, 2009A new Blackboard tool lets campuses connect the company’s course-management system to Google’s free e-mail and document-sharing services.
The connecting tool, which was developed by Northwestern University, is now available to other campuses as a “Building Block” plug-in for Blackboard. It allows students to access Google Apps within the Blackboard platform, meaning they don’t have to sign into the two platforms separately.
Hundreds of colleges have signed up for Google’s free services and made the company’s Gmail service the official student e-mail program on their campuses. Google’s services include a series of online programs as well, including a word processor and a spreadsheet application, and some students are using them for their classwork.
For more information about the Google Apps Building Block, please visit
http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle/, and the new Blackboard
Extensions(TM) Web site at http://blackboard.com/Support/Extensions.aspx.
[Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education | Reuters]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Los Angeles Moves To Gmail And ‘Cloud’ Computing : NPR
November 1, 2009The City of Los Angeles has voted to overhaul its e-mail system, converting it all to Gmail. … Los Angeles Moves To Gmail And ‘Cloud’ Computing.
[Source: NPR]
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Google Wave Use Cases: Education
October 29, 2009
Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. Wave creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen described it as making email “collaborative and instant.”
[Source: ReadWriteWeb]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Are College E-Mail Addresses on the Way Out?
October 28, 2009If the last four years are any indication, college-student e-mail addresses may soon be a thing of the past.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Google Voice ‘Lite’ — No New Number Required
October 27, 2009Google Voice, the Swiss Army knife telecommunications service that unifies multiple phone lines, transcribes voice mails, blocks telemarketers, makes cheap phone calls and more, has gotten plenty of buzz. But signing up for Google Voice comes with a hefty price: It requires people to get a new phone number.
Now Google is hoping to lure more users by offering them a small, but useful, subset of Google Voice features — no new number required.
[Source: New York Times]
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Perils of the Mobile Cloud
October 26, 2009In early October, Long Beach (Calif.) communications manager Kimiko Martinez discovered that her T-Mobile Sidekick phone had lost her 1,200 address-book contacts, photos dating back five years, and three years’ worth of financial information.
The data was stored on Microsoft’s Sidekick service. In early October, T-Mobile said it lost the data of thousands of users of its Sidekick smartphone after a computer problem at Microsoft (MSFT). Microsoft says it’s working to restore the data.
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