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Hands on with Google Drive (Review)

April 24th, 2012 · Comments Off

It took Google long enough. We’ve been hearing rumors for years that Google was going to release personal cloud storage, the Google Drive. Well, wait no more, the Google Drive is here. But, it’s much more than just that. It’s a nearly seamless integration of free and cheap storage with Google Docs. To install Google [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Office Software · Web Services

Free storage for you: Google Drive to arrive today

April 24th, 2012 · Comments Off

The rumors were true. Google’s personal cloud-based storage service, Google Drive, has been released today with 5GB of free storage. It includes both free and commercial versions. The minimum free service will include 5GBs of free storage, and you’ll be able to buy additional space for up to, brace yourself, 16 terabytes  of storage. In [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Office Software · Web Services

In the beginning, there was the word processor

March 9th, 2012 · Comments Off

nce upon a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, instead of word processors like today’s favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use typewriters. Some of us, dare I admit it, wrote by hand on paper. The horror! The horror! But, then along came word [...]

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Tags: Applications · Office Software

Intel distributes LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased?

February 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off

LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite. But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like openSUSE and Ubuntu, LibreOffice has never had a major corporate backer on the Windows side… until now. Intel is now offering LibreOffice to Windows users via its AppUp application store. I wonder how Microsoft [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Desktop · Development · Infrastructure · Intel · Microsoft · Office Software · Open Source · Operating System · SUSE · Windows

IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork

January 30th, 2012 · Comments Off

In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Development · IBM · Office Software · Open Source