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Google Docs Adds Cloud Storage

January 13th, 2010 No Comments

Google Docs today expanded the functionality of the service by offering 1GB of cloud storage for any type of file you want to upload. The only restrictions seem to be the 1GB cap on storage (you can buy more at $0.25 USD / GB) and the limit of 250MB per individual file. Though it doesn’t [...]

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Google Goes Gold – FINALLY!

July 7th, 2009 No Comments

Google finally scraped the five-year-old “beta” tag off it’s popular Gmail service. From being perpetually in beta, to becoming a set of enterprise tools Google’s App suite has finally gone gold. The collection of technology (some built in-house and some acquired from other service providers like writely back in 2006) has become a key part [...]

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Applications a Go-Go – Apps on the Flip 8230

May 18th, 2009 1 Comment

This is the fourth post in my series of reviews of the BlackBerry 8230.  These were originally written in April, 2009 on an internal blog and are being reposted here. Since I wasn’t overly impressed with the email functionality built-in to the Flip’s mail program, when it came to Gmail integration at least, I thought [...]

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Goodbye Grand Central, Hello Google Voice!

March 12th, 2009 1 Comment

Google today announced a new service to (some of) it’s customers called Google Voice. The service works very similarly to Grand Central (which the big G acquired back in 2007). The system allows you to create a single phone number, to which you can aggregate other numbers to have a unified system for voice and [...]

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Google Launches Tasks for Gmail

December 9th, 2008 1 Comment

Today Google announced on the official Gmail blog that it had added tasks to Gmail Labs. The new feature provides a simple task list that can be activated using the labs menu.  To activate this, click on the green beaker at the top of the screen. The task list in and of itself is basic, [...]

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