All Google Apps customers can use now Google+ seamlessly with their business and education accounts. These features were available for free before to anyone who wanted to sign up for a personal Google account. But for those who don’t want to bother with multiple accounts or can’t access personal accounts at work, this makes the Google+ experience much more seamless for the workplace and classroom.
Read MoreThe annual gathering of the higher-education IT community, EDUCAUSE 2011, attracted over thousands of higher education IT leaders. The conference included a booth with 30+ Googlers and a woodsy backdrop
for the fireside chat series; meeting with hundreds of CIOs from
universities using and considering Google Apps for Education; a party at the Academy of Natural Sciences; and liberty and the lifelong pursuit of the Philly cheesesteak.
Google updated its New Tab page which allows you to create custom categories by dragging and dropping apps and bookmarks. The changes in Chrome make it even easier to access your favorite apps and discover new favorites.
Read MoreThe digital bookcase interface looks like the shelves in your living room, but it is also capable of showcasing a much bigger number of titles available online than the number of the books in a traditional shelf. The digital bookcase is an infinite 3D helix. You can spin it side-to-side and up and down with your mouse. It holds 3D models of more than 10,000 titles from Google Books.
Read MoreGoogle has enabled a MapsGL option, that takes Google Maps and harnesses the power of Web Graphics Library (WebGL) to create far richer visuals and animations. With Google MapsGL the users will be able to interact with a 3D mirror of the real world within their browser.
Read MoreGoogle Plus search results now update instantly, and hashtags are working links, that you can follow in order to see the search result for the specific term. Google is trying to make it easier for the users to follow and contribute to live events
on Google+, including breaking news, sporting events, and many others.
The Chrome Remote Desktop beta version enables users to share with or get access to another computer by providing a one-time authentication code. Access is given only to the specific person that the user identifies and the sharing session is secured. Chrome Remote Desktop BETA is fully cross-platform, so you can connect any two computers that have a Chrome browser, including Windows, Linux, Mac and Chromebooks, but for the moment it's not possible to access your own computer remotely.
Google learned from some of the largest customers that they have some specific needs that the current version of Google Analytics can't meet in their entirety. They're addressing these needs by announcing a new option built for Google's largest customers: Google Analytics Premium. Google developed Google Analytics Premium around these pillars: more data, advanced tools, dedicated support and guarantees.
Read MoreGoogle celebrated its 13th birthday with a simple and classy main-page “Doodle”: A homey, scrapbooked image of the colorful logo surrounded by an uber-traditional setting of cake, presents and balloons. A landmark worthy of Hallmark. The literal “Google Image.”
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