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Google I/O: An Always Listening Assistant, Deeper Enterprise Push
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google will have a very deep and personalized role throughout your day should all the company's efforts announced at the annual Google I/O conference come to fruition.
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Virtual Reality, Indoor Mapping & Other Google I/O Treats
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google wants to make phones and tablets see the way you do — blurring the line between what's real and what's computer-generated. Its venture into what’s known as augmented reality is set to be one of the major highlights of the company's annual developer conference, Google I/O,
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Has Google Delivered a Killer Blow to Microsoft Office Apps?
Google quietly landed what could be a killer blow for Microsoft Apps with the release of a number of upgrades to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The first piece of bad news for Microsoft: Google created a separate iOS app for Slides, its answer to Microsoft PowerPoint.
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Google Smacks MS Office With Better Docs Collaboration
Google is making it even easier to move from Microsoft Office to Google Docs. At last month’s Google I/O conference, Google gave Office users the ability to edit documents in Docs, which was one of the sticking points for those considering a jump to Google.
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Microsoft Strikes Google by Slashing Office 365 Prices #WPC14
Microsoft announced a few weeks ago that it was going to provide transparency around its Office 365 business. — and also said it would be shaking up the price plans. It did just that at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and the good news is that prices are going down
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Is Google's Drive for Work Too Little, Too Late? #io14
Every time Google or Microsoft makes an announcement about lowering the price of storage, someone asks us why anyone would pay more for a service like Dropbox, Box, Syncplicity, Egnyte, Accellion … you get the picture.
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Google Makes it Easier to Dump Microsoft Office #io14
If you’re one of the top cats in the Microsoft business division, the Google I/O conference must be one of the most irritating things of the year. At I/O, Google always seems to find a way to squeeze the fun from Microsoft’s master plan to rule the business world.
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Do You Really Want to Give Google Your Health Data?
(Update: Google took on Apple in the health arena yesterday with the launch of Google Fit. The company announced the new initiative at its Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco. Google Fit is an open fitness and health tracking platform. The platform SDK will be available in just a few weeks. The news comes just a few weeks after after Apple announced HealthKit at its Worldwide Developers Conference. HealthKit, which will be bundled with Apple's new iOS 8, is a hub where you can monitor daily health stats and track data over time.) If reports are right, Google will announce its second attempt to tap into health data at its annual developer-focused
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Google I/O 2013 Day 1 Wrap Up: Search, Mobile + Cloud Updates
Voice search in Google's Chrome browser now features hands free search by saying the phrase, "Okay, Google." Once a year, Google throws its I/O developers conference, and day one in 2013 featured plenty of updates about the company's most popular search, mobile and cloud products including a hands free voice
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Google I/O To Kick Off With Massive Android Smartphone Dominance
With the unveiling of the next Android OS 'Key Lime Pie' a possibility at its Google I/O event, starting tomorrow, it seems the existing flavors are doing pretty well. Analyst figures from Gartner show almost 75% of smartphones now run the OS, powered by growth in Asia.
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Google Series 5 Chromebooks, New, Improved and Heading To Stores
Google continues to roll out the hardware at its IO developer event with the new and improved Chromebooks. These Samsung-built notebooks offer better hardware, hugely improved Chrome OS features and will be available in stores for the first time.
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Google Nexus Tablet Leaks Ahead of Official Unveiling
Just as Amazon was thinking about refreshing the Kindle Fire, it looks like Google is ready to start a war in the entry-level tablet market, with the Nexus 7 Tablet being leaked ahead of launch in a Google sales training document.
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A Week in Google: I/O Recap, Chrome OS Notebooks & Browser Vulnerabilities
Welcome to another week of Google. This time around we discussed the ever-popular Google I/O Conference, the new Google Chrome OS notebook from Samsung, and some scary browser vulnerabilities.
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Google Sets Aside US$ 500M for Possible DoJ Settlement
Google (news, site) has recently adjusted its quarterly earnings report with a hefty US$ 500 million reduction. The earlier-reported cash earning has now been earmarked for a potential settlement with the Department of Justice for undisclosed ad-related issues. Costly Settlement In a SEC filing, Google indicates
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