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Google Offers Respite From Inbox Overload

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 11:26pm

Google is introducing a new feature in Gmail called Priority inbox that it hopes will better highlight important e-mails.

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Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 10:40pm

Mostly the young are interested in letting others know their physical location. Others are reticent for safety reasons, or against providing too much information.

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Work better across time zones with Google Calendar

The Official Google Blog - 31 Agosto 2010 - 8:06pm

Collaborating with colleagues from various teams in different offices is a daily facet of my work. I am based in Zurich, Switzerland, and many of the people I interact with are in California, USA, which is nine hours behind. Oftentimes I find myself invited to attend meetings that happen late in my evening, which proves that coordinating across time zones can be a challenge.

At Google we want to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance, so today we’re launching a set of new features that will improve your experience whether you’re scheduling across time zones or just across the hall.

Setting Up Working Hours
For Google Apps users, the new ‘Working hours’ setting allows you to configure the hours that suit your schedule, as you can see in the screenshot below:

Users setting up an event will be able to see your working hours clearly marked in your calendar in the event creation page. They will also be warned if they schedule an event outside your working hours. For example, when someone in California is scheduling an appointment with me for 11am their time, they will see a warning like this:

Find a Time, Make it Recurring
The new "Find a Time" tab on the event scheduling page lets you view your coworkers’ schedules at-a-glance and choose the best time for a meeting. This is especially helpful for scheduling events with a large number of attendees, particularly if they are spread out geographically. Also in the event scheduling page, we’ve launched a simpler interface for setting recurring meetings with a small window that appears when you select the “Repeats” check box. For Google Apps customers with the administrative control panel option set to “enable new pre-release features” users will automatically see these new changes to the event editor.

We’ve also made a number of changes on the back-end that improve the performance, consistency, and extensibility of Calendar, which we’ve announced on our Gmail blog today. Enjoy your meetings, now with fewer time zone scheduling hassles!

Posted by Oana Florescu, Software Engineer, Calendar

Update (8/30): While rolling out the new calendar features last week we identified a potential issue that caused us to delay the update. We are working to launch these new feature to users on domains that do not utilize the Google Calendar Connector (GCC) service early this week and we are working on supporting GCC users in the near future.

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Advances Offer Path to Further Shrink Computer Chips

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 6:27pm

Researchers say they can overcome a barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory.

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BlackBerry Fans May Want to Carry a Torch

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 6:22pm

The Torch is the first BlackBerry with a true touch screen and it offers new features, screen controls and shortcuts that bring it much more in line with competing smartphones.

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Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 6:07pm

Ads tailored to online shoppers based on the products they have perused are leaving consumers with an eerie feeling.

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Q. & A.: Reversing the Mistaken Browser Click

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 4:52pm

Pressing Control-Shift-T opens recently closed tabs in a browser.

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Autodesk Will Reintroduce Its AutoCAD Design Software for Macs

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 3:50pm

As Apple’s line of Mac computers has staged a comeback, more customers have asked that Autodesk make its flagship product available on the platform again.

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Have a Free Flight to Mexico With Your Taco?

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 2:26pm

Virgin America is the latest company to use location-based apps for marketing.

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Intel to Buy a Wireless Division of Infineon

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 5:16am

The deal would give Intel a foothold in the smartphone chip market, a segment of the wireless business that is experiencing strong growth.

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In India, BlackBerry Gets 2-Month Reprieve on Threat of Ban

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 5:16am

The government said it would study and test a proposal by the BlackBerry maker for two months as it tried to settle a dispute over corporate e-mail.

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Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

The Official Google Blog - 31 Agosto 2010 - 3:43am

Information overload is a reality of the modern workplace. The average corporate worker sends and receives more than 150 messages per day1, an email deluge of varying importance: key project updates from colleagues, requests from higher-ups, appointment reminders, and automated mail that’s often much less important. With so much information to process, simply figuring out what needs to be be read and what needs a reply takes up a lot of time. Today, we’re excited to introduce Priority Inbox Beta in Gmail, an experimental new way of reducing information overload.

Priority Inbox is a new view of your inbox that automatically helps you focus on your most important messages. Gmail has always kept spam messages out of your inbox, and now we’ve improved Gmail’s filter to help you see the emails that matter faster without requiring you to set up complex rules.

Here’s how it works: Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything else”:

Messages are automatically categorized as they arrive in your inbox. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better. You can improve the ranking in Priority Inbox by clicking the buttons at the top of the inbox to mark conversations as important or not important.

As a result, your inbox is better organized, and you can spend your time addressing your most important emails right away. When we tested Priority Inbox at Google, we found that people spent 6% less time on email after enabling this feature. This translates to a week’s worth of time saved each year for information workers who typically spend 13 hours per week on email today!2

Luke Leonhard, Web Services Manager for Brady Corporation, says “Like many of our users, I get over a hundred messages each day. Priority Inbox saves me time by displaying emails in order of importance, letting me process them more efficiently than before. The time I save can then be spent on new projects that add value to Brady rather than managing my inbox.”

Over the next week, we’ll be rolling out Priority Inbox settings to users in organizations with the “Enable pre-release features” option selected in the Google Apps control panel.

Helping users manage lots of information has always been a core goal of Gmail, and we’re excited to see how Priority Inbox helps users in organizations mitigate information overload and get to important messages faster.

Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer

1. “Email Statistics Report, 2009-2013”, The Radicati Group, Inc, 2009

2. “Hidden Costs of Information Work in the Enterprise Exposed in New IDC Progress Report”, IDC, 2009

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Microsoft Enters Google's Unwalled Garden

NY Times Technology News - 31 Agosto 2010 - 2:51am

A new application brings Bing services to Verizon Wireless phones running the Android operating system from Google.

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Box.net goes Google: platform integration and real-time collaboration

The Official Google Blog - 30 Agosto 2010 - 10:58pm

Editors note: As part of our Going Google Everywhere series, today's guest blogger is Jen Grant, VP of Marketing at Box.net, a Palo Alto-based start-up that helps businesses collaborate, share, and manage all their content online. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map.

When I joined Box.net a few years ago, we weren’t using a web-based email and calendaring solution, despite being "born in the cloud." At first I POP-ed my email into my personal Gmail (insert groans from IT here). But as the company grew from 40 to 100, it wasn't hard to convince our IT guru, Jeff, that a move to Google Apps would be best for productivity...and his sanity.

Today, we no longer use our in-house system that required a lot of maintenance and back-ups. Instead we’re heavy users of the Google Apps. We use Gmail, Google Talk and Google Calendar to keep track of our busy schedules and stake out precious conference rooms. And since we’ve grown pretty quickly, being able to collaborate on projects using Google Docs has helped us to work together across our larger teams. Plus, since the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace, the Box and Google Apps platforms are integrated, resulting in the seamless connection of Box's cloud content management solution with Google Apps. We like to think that the two services were a match made in heaven...or at least the clouds :) Check out our snazzy video about the integration.

The Box-Google Apps integration helps us work faster and more efficiently. Being able to collaborate across departments as we've grown has been essential. My favorite part is the ability to create a Google doc in a Box folder. I get the real-time collaboration of Google Docs and can also assign my CEO a task to approve the final version. Plus our security-sensitive VP of Tech Ops is happy because he can now report on who's got access to which files in Google Docs. And everyone can access and link to their Box files from Gmail. Peanut butter and chocolate.

Thanks to our move to Google Apps, I'm happy to report that as a service and company, Box operates fully in the cloud. Now that the Box team is hooked on Google Apps, none of us can imagine life without it.

Posted by Ashley Chandler, Google Apps team

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Pogue's Posts: The Size of the E-Book Library Matters Less

NY Times Technology News - 30 Agosto 2010 - 10:46pm

Because both Amazon and Barnes & Noble offer excellent e-book reading apps for the iPad (for their own proprietary e-books), the small size of Apple's e-book library is essentially irrelevant.

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Does Google's Free Phone Service Work in Other Countries?

NY Times Technology News - 30 Agosto 2010 - 10:45pm

Google says its free phone service might work from overseas, but not officially.

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A Video Show From Google Highlights Hot Topics

NY Times Technology News - 30 Agosto 2010 - 9:56pm

Google moves from algorithms to video shows with the Google Beat, which is based on each week's trending topics in search results.

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Engaging North Korea in Twitter Diplomacy

NY Times Technology News - 30 Agosto 2010 - 9:37pm

A State Department spokesman attempted to engage North Korea on the social network Twitter, but it is not clear if anyone in the "Hermit Kingdom" was picking up his signals.

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