The long wait is over. Yesterday, Google finally unveiled the long-awaited Google Drive. Now the debate can begin over who really owns the files you upload to Google Drive. Technology analyst Carmi Levy talks about concerns over the new digital storage service. Related articles GOOGLE DRIVE: What You Need to Know (VIDEO)(blippitt.com) Incoming search terms:google [...]

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It’s finally here! It was beginning to seem like Google’s long-awaited Google Drive was just a legend – the “Chinese Democracy” of tech innovations – but now it has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait? Announced on the company blog yesterday, Google Drive will integrate with Google Docs and will allow you to access [...]

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Google is on a tear, announcing products in rapid-fire succession. The latest is a simple editor for drawings that’s been added to Google Docs. You can now insert shapes, draw lines, insert scribbles and text, and change the color, line width and other formatting options. The drawing is added as an image but you can [...]

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I really hate to say, “I told you so”, but I knew that the Google Docs breach last week would be bad news for Google eventually. Yesterday, The Electronic Privacy Information Center, A.K.A. EPIC, requested that the Federal Trade Commission launch an investigation into the privacy and security measures of several Google services, including Gmail, [...]

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Oops.  Google has made a privacy boo-boo. In a blunder that highlights some of the biggest privacy issues involving web-based services, Google sent out a notice to several users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it might have accidentally shared some documents with contacts who did not have access to them. According to [...]

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Image via CrunchBase The internet is overrated – at least Gmail seems to think so.  Today, they’ve announced that you can check your e-mail offline. Now, even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, head over to Gmail and access your e-mail just like you always do. Once you turn on this feature, [...]

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