Monthly Archives: April 2010

I lost my Mobile phone, Part 2! What about my contacts?

Last week I wrote a blog titled “I lost my Mobile Phone ! What Now?”. Part 2 talks about what typically creates the most pain from such an event – losing the contact and address book data that’s in the phone. When traveling … Continue reading

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Google Docs – “New 4/12/10 Release” clarifications

On 4/12/10 Google made available a “preview release” of new Google Apps / DOCS editor tools (Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentation editors) Preview of new Google Documents editor available . Each type of document has it’s own editor and can be … Continue reading

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I lost my Mobile phone! What now?

We live and die by our mobile phones – so how mobile can you be when that phone is suddenly gone? With IP (Internet Protocol) technology and cloud computing – a lot! There are 100s of reasons why we might … Continue reading

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Google Docs redefines “Real Time Collaboration” with new release

A major strength of Google Docs has been the opportunity to perform simultaneous editing of a single document (either a Word or Spreadsheet document).  Multiple people could be at PCs located anywhere in the world and see a single master … Continue reading

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With Cloud Computing – “Everyone Can be a Business”

There is a lot of talk about “cloud computing” these days.  Multiple top companies provide cloud based offerings:  IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon – even Apple (iTunes Music and iPhone Apps stores are cloud computing examples).  But what is the significance … Continue reading

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April Fools 2010 – Google's Sense of Humor

Historically Google has been known for pulling various April Fools Day Pranks – and when done with reasonable taste, they can be pretty comical.  But today really surprised me.  A multi-billion dollar Fortune 100 firm that can even handle poking … Continue reading

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