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Google has added OCR technology to Google Docs, virtual scanning of uploaded PDFs saved as a document file.
OCR works best if the original is a high-resolution image. The higher the resolution of the original the greater the results however Some formatting may not be preserved.
The original images will be included in the new document to [...]

Google Docs supports posting documents to most of the popular blog sites, as well as to any blog that supports the Blogger, metaWeblog or MovableType APIs.
To specify your blog settings, and instruct Google Docs to publish to the blog of your choice, follow these instructions:
1. Click the checkbox next to the Doc you want to [...]

Google has made it very easy and free to access any of their services from your mobile device.  They have one central location m.google.com, where any Google account users can access all the Google Mobile services and download portable versions of their favourite applications from their mobile device. Google has also broken with software tradition [...]

Which one is best for your organisation? I put them through their paces side by side. Overall, as you’ll see, Google Apps service beats Microsoft Office Live because of its superior e-mail, and because it offers a calendar, something that Microsoft does not.
Initial Setup
For small businesses that are setting up e-mail and managing a Web [...]

Telegraph Media Group has after a 6 month trial, partnered with Google to offer their online applications to its journalists.  The Telegraph staff can now use Google’s applications to access their email and share documents and other information among other staff.
Paul Cheesbrough, chief information officer at TMG, said “This will be of particular benefit to [...]

Its been announced, Google wins another educational provider with its amazing Gmail & Google Docs offering. It official Google will be the new provider of email and documents to New Zealand’s largest university, the University of Auckland. The roll out is going to provide access to over 50,000 students, staff University alumni.
Using Google [...]

The Australian has reported on July 4th that Optus customers who buy the to use on the pre-paid network will pay $729 for 8gig iPhone or for the larger 16gig iPhone $849.
For customers willing to sign a $79/month contract for 24 months the 8gig iPhone will be provided with no upfront cost. If customers are [...]

Google has launched a web-based application that allows users to design their own web pages…
Google Sites features a graphical interface that lets users create pages with no HTML coding.
Users can embed YouTube videos and content from Google’s Calendar, Docs and Picasa sites, and will also be allowed to upload any sort of file type to [...]