Google launches Data Liberation Front
Google has announced the launch of a Data Liberation Front.
It is essentially a group of Google engineers who are now going to work on opening up their services to enable users to move their data with them if they are switching to a rival service.
The company said that they [...]

Google Docs Batch Upload
Google Docs Batch Upload is an open source Java program that enables you to upload multiple files in one go to Google Docs.
It is a command line based application and it should work with any operating system that has the relevant Java components installed.
It can be used to upload all [...]

Google Translate now support 51 languages!
Google has announced that they are now adding nine more languages to their Google Translate service.
Google Translate can now work with text in 51 languages. The new languages are:
Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish.
The search engine giant said in a blog post: “The [...]

Language Translation comes to Google Docs
Google has announced the addition of a new feature on their Google Docs service.
Google Docs now comes loaded with language translation capabilities.
The search engine giant said in a blog post that the service enables the user to translate documents into 42 different languages.
Google added:
All the formatting and [...]

Microsoft now owns Office.com domain name
Microsoft has plans to make available a web based edition of MS Office for the users of their software suite.
The company has just acquired ownership of the domain name Office.com which experts believe could be the home of the web version of Microsoft Office.
Office.com was previously owned by [...]

Google showing ‘view as HTML’ option for Microsoft Excel files in search results
Google has further enhanced Google Docs functionality in their search results.
They have already been showing a ‘view as HTML’ option for Adobe PDF files.
They are now showing a similar option for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
So, the user no longer requires having a compatible [...]

Google Labs now has a Google Checkout store gadget
Google has announced the launch of their Google Checkout store gadget in Google Labs.
This gadget can be used by anyone to start their own online store powered by Google technologies like Google Docs and Google Checkout.
Google said that this gadget makes use of the Spreadsheet Data [...]

Google confirms Google Apps Standard Edition is still free
Google Apps Standard Edition is one of the most useful services provided by Google to budding web entrepreneurs.
The service enables anyone to get a hosted web application suite linked to one’s domain.
So, you can use your own email Ids with Gmail and Google Docs functionality.
The [...]

Google Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk are now out of beta!
Google has finally done the unthinkable. They have decided to remove the beta label from a lot of their services.
So from today, a lot of popular services are out of Beta. The services which are now out of beta are:
Google Mail – Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Google [...]

Cisco might launch a web based Microsoft Office competitor
Cisco Systems might become the latest player to enter the highly competitive office productivity office suite solutions.
The company might launch a web based office suite solution similar to Google Docs.
Cisco Senior Vice President Doug Dennerline said that they are considering plans to offer a service that [...]