20 posts and columns on Google Drive

News Byte

Google Unifies Free Storage Products

in Product News on May 13 at 10:38 am PT

Guess this move wasn’t deemed important enough for the I/O keynote. But for those who carefully meter their free Google storage, life just got a little easier. Google now gives users 15 gigabyte to be split up among Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos however they like.

Google Amps Up Personal Search to Combine Gmail, Calendar, Drive and More

in News on October 15, 2012 at 3:33 pm PT

Google is ever so tentatively combining its search and productivity products.
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Is This the Bottom of the Barrel? Google Cuts a Few More Features.

in News on August 3, 2012 at 3:12 pm PT

Google, in continuing its efforts to “put more wood behind fewer arrows,” has shuttered all sorts of products in the past year. Today, it seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel to add another four: Google Apps for Teams (for organizations that want to use apps but not Gmail), Google Listen (a podcast app made redundant by other Google Play apps), Google Video for Business (made redundant by Google Drive) and some corporate blogs that are updated infrequently.

I/O Preview: Google Set This Week to Challenge Amazon, Sonos, Apple and … Oh, Just Fill in the Blank Here

in News on June 25, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

Here are the big product announcements to expect at I/O, which runs from Wednesday to Friday at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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HTML5 Start-Up Crocodoc Signs Up Dropbox, LinkedIn and SAP as Paying Customers

in Enterprise on May 1, 2012 at 8:00 am PT

Crocodoc, a start-up that quickly converts PDFs and Office documents to HTML5, already has an impressive list of customers: Dropbox, LinkedIn, SAP, Yammer and Edomodo.
The Crocodoc founding team breaks for a glamor shot.

Sundar Pichai: Google Drive Is About Context, Where Competitors Are About Files

in News on April 24, 2012 at 11:19 am PT

After years ago helping to kill an unreleased previous product called Google Drive, Sundar Pichai is now pitching a product with the exact same name.
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Meet Google Drive: Specs and Screenshots

in News on April 24, 2012 at 9:30 am PT

For the sake of setting them out clearly, here are some of the basic Google Drive specs.
Some apps have already been built on the Google Drive SDK

It’s Personal-Cloud Week! SkyDrive Reduces Free Storage and Adds Desktop Apps; Dropbox Does Links.

in News on April 23, 2012 at 12:14 pm PT

Ahead of the expected release of Google Drive this week, competitors are revising their personal-cloud products.
Microsoft said its new free storage limit for SkyDrive won't affect many users.