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07 July 2010 ~ View Comments

ManyMoon and Google Apps Marketplace Disappoint

For the past month or so we’ve been using Manymoon for our project management collaboration. There’s a free version though I paid the $180 or so for a yearly subscription (which is starting to look like a mistake).  Overall, when it works,  it’s a great little tool for it’s tight integration to Google Apps which [...]

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17 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

So Much For Google Buzz Being More Stable Than Twitter

As Twitter suffers through another period of sporadic downtime many critics have pointed to Google’s new service Buzz as an example of the type of social media service that doesn’t go down and seems to be able to scale with the number of users that have been adopting it. The only problem with the comparison [...]

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09 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

Attorney General Say’s Google Admits Wi-Fi Data Collection in Connecticut

The Hartford Courant is reporting that Google has admitted to collecting unencrypted Wi-Fi data in the State of Connecticut. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal had sent Google a letter seeking information on whether any data was collected by the company’s street view cars. Google’s acknowledgment that it vacuumed up data from unencrypted wireless computer networks in [...]

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15 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Voice DND Now Lets You Specify Time Period

Thankfully Google Voice’s Do not disturb (aka DND) feature has been updated so that you can now specify a period of time for which the phone service should automatically send all callers to voicemail. Prior to this addition the DND feature was convenient for times when you were busy and couldn’t take any calls – [...]

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05 March 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Wave Adds Email Notifications

This morning (actually Wednesday evening – but I just noticed it this morning) Google Wave went live with a new feature that allows for notification of new activity in waves you are participating in. The feature is activated via your inbox and will send an email based on a timeline (immediate, hourly, daily, never) that [...]

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