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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Going Google just got easier



Word processing and spreadsheet programs are the mainstay of office productivity software. Let’s face it: without a great way to write memos, crunch numbers and flesh out ideas, you can’t get any meaningful work done. For a long time, productivity software was a bit like a midsized sedan: sturdy, dependable, loaded with features and a little dull.

Nine years ago with Google Docs, we saw an opportunity to build something that would enable people to work together in new ways. Fast forward to today and Docs is a productivity powerhouse. Now’s a great time to give it a fresh look if you want to take advantage of its unmatched collaboration tools. We’ve made it easy by covering most of the features some claim to be missing and adding nifty new stuff like Voice Typing and Explore. All in all, we think youll find it’s the perfect tool for work.

In fact, were so confident that Docs has all the features you need, without the ones you dont, that were making it even easier to give it a try. If youre worried about switching to Docs because you still have an enterprise agreement (EA) with another provider, well cover the fees of Google Apps until your contract runs out. Well even chip in on some of the deployment costs and set you up for success with one of our Google for Work Partners.

Once your current EA is up, we offer a simple contract with no traps or gotchas. For a lot of businesses, it’s cheaper, too. Our estimates suggest that businesses with basic EAs and no dependencies can potentially unlock savings of up to 70% by switching to Google Apps for Work.

There’s a new way of working, and we think that once you see Docs and the rest of Google Apps for Work in action, you’ll never want to go back. We want to help you experience it now, even if you’re locked into an existing EA. If you’re in the US or Canada, click here now to learn more and see how Google can work for you. If you’re outside the US or Canada, stay tuned – we’re actively working to bring this offer to our global markets as well.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Apple gets sapphire window and pressure sensitive display patents granted


Apple, a tech firm best known for its innovations, after introducing a sapphire-based fingerprint sensor on its iPhone 5s, got one of its important patents granted by the USPTO on Thursday, detailing a cutting and processing method for sapphire material. Another patent, applied for a day apart in 2012, was approved along with it, related to pressure-sensitive touch input.


The sapphire manufacturing patent, applied for back in July 2012, details the process of how the Cupertino firm will cut the sapphire material and polish it. The patent also includes the use of lasers for cutting the material into Windows.


"Methods for creating sapphire windows are provided herein. In particular, one embodiment may take the form of a method of manufacturing sapphire windows. The method includes obtaining a polished sapphire wafer and applying decoration to the sapphire wafer. The method also includes cutting the sapphire wafer into discrete windows. In some embodiments, the cutting step comprises laser ablation of the sapphire," states the patent filed under USPTO or United States Patent and Trademark Office.


The patent might be related to Apples rumoured solar-charging sapphire glass screen, which is said to be incorporated in the Apple iPhone 6 handset.


The second patent approved on Thursday was titled "Gesture and Touch Input Detection through Force Sensing." The patent, also filed back in July 2012, talks about three touch sensitive force sensors that will trigger different functionalities by the device.


The Apple patent details a design concept where pressure sensitive areas are placed around the corners of tablet-like devices to act as secondary input carrier. The patent is aimed at the location and amount of pressure, and we might see this technology make it to the companys iPad tablet.


An example has been given in the patent which states "if the input force is exerted on a top right hand corner of the surface, a first force sensor adjacent the top right corner of the surface may sense a first force value, a second force sensor that may be in a left bottom corner may sense a second force value, and a third force sensor in a left top corner may sense a third value. These three force values may be used to determine a location of a centre of the force or force centroid location."



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