Google Is Ready to Snatch Microsoft Office Users
Google has announced a new service that combines the Google Docs and Microsoft Office. Ready to ‘seize’ Office users, the new service called Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office.
Basically this is a plug-in for Office. Once installed, Cloud Connect will enable the edited document in MS Office Docs stored on Google servers. Not just that, Google Docs users can collaborate to edit the document through Microsoft Office. Cloud Connect can run on MS Office 2010, 2007 and 2003. MS Office Users simply have a Google account to run it.
Shan Sinha, Group Product Manager at Google, said that there are already tens of millions of users of Google Docs. “Obviously, we know many of you who still use Microsoft Office,” he wrote in the official Google blog.
Google Cloud Connect is an evolution of a product called DocVerse, and Sinha is one of the founders DocVerse, companies that have been bought by Google in early 2010.
iPhone and Android Will Dominate Phone Cell-Market in 2015
Ovum research firm projected that the total amount of the downloadable mobile application in the Asia Pacific region will reach 5.3 billion later in 2015 later. The majority came from the Apple iPhone and mobile users Google Android. From these approximate figures, a total of 597.15 million applications, or approximately 11% of them will be controlled by the iPhone. The total downloaded apps will only be rivaled by other mobile users that use the Android operating systems.
“Apple iPhone will dominate the smartphone market segment of high end within the next five years. However, this dominance will remain under strong competition from Android-based handsets,” said Ovum analyst Adam Leach, as quoted from the AFP on Wednesday .
According to Leach, the presence of Google Android started two years ago have become a new phenomenon and allow every handset maker creates an interesting alternative to the iPhone. In fact, Leach said, a handset that uses Android platform looks like iPhone clone. “Android-based device offers a wider freedom with the available content . And perhaps more interesting than the device with content that is only approved by Apple alone,” he added.
Facebook and Google Maps Two Most Downloaded Apps Over Smartphones
Speaking about smartphone(s), it always reminds us of the apps that support them. As quoted from detikinet last friday, Nielsen announced that started from iPhone to Androids, there are two kinds apps that dominate the smartphones platform. The two apps are Facebook and Google Maps.
The survey – which is named ‘App Playbook’ – was taken from 4.200 American already downloaded the apps for the last 30 (thirty) days. The survey noted that 21% mobiles users in USA use smartphones in the last quarter of 2009, the number is increasing 14% compared to the same period in 2008
Here is the list of Nielsen’s survey result along the non-game apps downloaded the most :
- iPhone : Facebook (58%), iTunes (48%), Google Maps (47%)
- Android : Google Maps (67%), Facebook (50%), Weather Channel (38%)
- Blackberry : Facebook (51%), Google Maps(34%), Weather Channel (28%)
