Google Drive News & Articles

Google looked to the enterprise this week with a couple of updates intended to make administrator's and document collaborator's lives a little easier.

Google Drive is motoring along nicely with a new 1.30 update out for the productivity app, allowing users to better access and edit their documents in Google's updated cloud storage service, but some users are stuck at the Sign In button.

The Google Drive cloud storage service now offers a real-time API designed to allow developers to place Google Drive’s real-time collaboration capabilities into their apps. These capabilities include network communication, storage, presence and conflict resolution.

 Google's badly-kept-secret note taking service called Keep has finally been formally unveiled, putting all your thoughts into Google's cloud via an Android app. 

IT solutions provider Barracuda Networks has released Copy, a cloud- based file storage and sharing tool. With Copy, users are able to share, view and sync files from any device, at any time.

File sharing service YouSendIt has expanded its roster of duties by purchasing Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds.

In November, Microsoft improved the syncing functionality in SkyDrive and said it would continue building and improving to compete with Google Drive. This month, it has added a number of new features that will improve its file sharing abilities as well as some new HTML 5 features to make the whole experience better.

Cloud storage mover and shaker Dropbox has bought fellow Y Combinator alum Snapjoy, a photo viewing app that lets people consolidate and view photos from around the Web or stashed away on various devices and memory cards.

It’s Christmas so a lot of people will be expecting iPads, even if it’s only one of the older versions. While that’s all well and good, what will really make this Christmas special are the apps that go with it. One of the biggest problems to date has been the inability to use Office and Office documents on the iPad. This week however, Google has announced that it will be making Office users’ Christmas dreams come true with iPad access.

Strategies for managing information didn't change dramatically, but the different platforms where one could seemingly save, store and share information evolved quite rapidly. Whether we were on mobile devices, in the cloud or on premises, there was a lot of information and it wasn't always well-organized or well-secured.

It’s still a long way from Google Drive, but even still this is well worth a look. Microsoft has just announced that it has improved SkyDrive with selected file syncing, easier desktop sharing and mobile updates.

In a week where we talked a lot about collaboration, it is probably appropriate to wrap up with a small announcement from Google Drive that should make Box or Dropbox pause for thought.

The collaboration space is getting a lot more intense. More products, more competitors, all jostling to get ahead of the other. This week Box announced it will boost the speed of its upload abilities and with this, hopes to gain a competitive edge over Google Drive and Dropbox.

Now that Labor Day weekend is over, companies are shifting into high gear to prepare for the holiday push. Among the document management products being released in the next two weeks the general release of M-Files v9.0 and something new from Alfresco. This past week, Google Drive editing capabilities for iOS were upgraded, while enterprise content management looks set to grow in the EMEA region.

Google is expanding the functionality of its cloud-based Drive document management service for iOS and Android users. Starting today, users of the iOS Drive app will have the same document-editing ability that users of the Android Drive app already possess.