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First, starting on April 5th, the following features will no longer be available from the old app and at pay.google.com:
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Ability to send, request or receive money
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View of your recent activity or transaction history
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That sounds like a pretty big change to me.
Guess google can’t compete with all the other ways to “send, request, or receive” money?
No impact to me, but maybe to Google’s Users of their phones?
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https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
Google recently released a new free app called PhotoScan with the aim of letting you digitize all your old photos. If you’ve installed the app, you can access it by clicking the three lines at the top left of Google Photos, then clicking “Scan photos”. Going forward, simply search for scans whenever you want to see all the photos you digitized.
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The Enterprise Cloud
Google Apps v. Office 365 summary: Which is better?
By Ian Hardenburgh
July 5, 2012, 12:20 PM PDT
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Takeaway: Ian Hardenburgh sums up his research on the Google Apps and Office 365 suites. He has a preference, but it still comes down to individual needs and your number of users.
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So, which is better?
So at this point, you’re probably saying, that’s all fine and dandy, but which service is truly the better of the two? Well, I’d have to say Office 365, but only if your organization is prepared to (1) pay a premium (for a truly premium service), (2) take advantage of the advanced set of features noticed with auxiliary services like SharePoint Online, and (3) have the resources to thoroughly train your staff on the on-demand technology (You will have users saying, “Can’t I just have Office on my PC like I used to?). Otherwise, the scalability of Google Apps, combined with the applications and professional services that can be gained from its Google Apps Marketplace is a very close second.
Therefore, in my humble opinion, I’d say most enterprises, with the exception of extremely large ones, can be well-served by Google Apps. In increased summation, go with Google Apps if you’re a small enterprise and Office 365 if you’re a large one. It really is a crapshoot if you have somewhere between several hundred and ten-thousand users (what I consider a medium sized enterprise). Hey wait, I guess comparing Google Apps and Office 365 was simply a matter of enterprise size after all!
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The choice is much harder for the “amateur” trying to get work done in the most flexible cheapest fashion.
Cloud is great if the inet is always there for you. (Only a Fortune 500 CEO or Gooferment bureaucrat has that.)
There are still format and User interface issues.
True Client – Server cooperative productivity apps are few and far between.
Stuff changes in the wink of an eye.
Microsoft and Apple and Google all have their flaws.
Seriously, I don’t know. A plague on ALL their houses.
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