SAP Making Application With Google Wave

Google's Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP. Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available only to developers. Wave combines a range of technologies such as document sharing and instant messaging into a system for real-time collaboration. SAP Research and the vendor's NetWeaver...

Google Invites for Real-Time Google Wave

Google Wave is opening up to the general public for the first time Tuesday, the company has announced. Just over 100,000 invitations are being sent out to users who had previously requested access to the web-based real-time communications service on a first-come, first-served basis. Wave invites should be arriving in e-mail inboxes throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday day. Google Wave is a web-based application that marries multiple forms of communication, including chat, mail and wikis,...

Google Launches – Google Docs OCR

Google Docs API tests a new feature that lets you perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image. There's a live demo that illustrates this feature: you can upload a high-resolution JPG, GIF, or PNG image that has less than 10 MB and Google Docs extracts the text and converts it into a new document. Google mentions that "the operation can currently take up to 40 seconds" and a small test showed that the service is not yet reliable: it's slow and it frequently returns errors. The...

Open Aspects Of Android – Clarified by Google

The search giant has halted distribution of the Cyanogen custom Android build with proprietary apps like Gmail and Google Maps. While the Android mobile operating system is open source, some of its most appealing features like tight Gmail integration and Google Maps are not, Google said in a blog post. The search giant faced some criticism last week when it ordered developer Steve Kondik to stop distributing a custom build of Android because it utilized closed-source applications like...

Google Earth launches climate simulator

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words should we affordGoogle Earth? Hours can be lost skydiving your way towards your favourite locations. Seeing somewhere you know so well from above provides valuable extra servings of knowledge and perspective. It's pleasing, therefore, to see Google announcing on its official blog that it has developed some nifty new features to coincide with theCopenhagen climate conference, now only a matter of weeks away. In collaboration with the...

Export Google Analytics Data to Microsoft Excel

Introducing..... Excellent Analytics! Excellent Analytics? Am I just bragging now? No, it's actually the name of a tool - check it out here: http://excellentanalytics.com. It's completely free and also truly excellent! Excellent Analytics is an Excel plugin that you can download and integrate into most versions of Excel (EDIT - Greg pointed out in the comments that it only works for Excel 2007 - if you're not compatible with Excel 2007 then check out the alternatives I link to further down)....

Google Layout 2.1

Now that SketchUp 7.1 is out the door, I thought it'd be a good idea to tell you a little bit more about its 2D, Pro counterpart: LayOut 2.1 is more powerful than ever. We added features that should let you use SketchUp Pro for an even larger chunk of your workflow: Dimensions! LayOut isn't just for presentation documents anymore. LayOut 2.1 gives you the ability to add precise dimensions to your work. Use the new Dimension tool on any inserted SketchUp model to produce a set of...

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Nasty Ad Slips Past Google

Generally you can trust the ads on Google to at least be safe. But that’s not the case right now for the top ad being served on the query “Firefox.” The top ad says it is linking to “Firefox ® OfficiaI Sit?” at the URL www.mozilla.com/firefox/. And that is indeed the official Mozilla Firefox site. But the link actually goes to the much more sinister firefox.mozilla-now.com, a site that dishonestly tries to get users to pay up to $2.50/month for an ongoing subscription to “24/7...

Google Hiring People To Work From Home

Has the online titan now opened the doors for everyday people like you to work for them? If this is true, that means that thousands of people from US and Canda might have a safe and bright future working from the comfort of their homes, all of which will be decided in the next few days. In the middle of this recession this country and the world is going through, Google has been thriving and reporting profits consistently every quarter. Completely innovating the Search Engine industry in the...