Google Officially Launch 'Google Music Service'

Everyone seems to be waiting for the launch of Google Music Service, so no more wait for music freak persons. Google has finally launched its Music Service website called Google Music (Beta), quite similar to Amazon's Cloud Player. Google Music is basically based on Google�s Cloud based music player which allows you to listen to any music you upload to the anticipated cloud service offline, and it tracks what you�ve listened to recently to make it automatically available offline. You will also be able to easily select which songs/artists/playlists that you want to make available offline.

Google Music was announced at last year�s Google I/O and many users have been patiently awaiting further announcement about the service. After Amazon launched a similar service recently, like Amazon, Google will launch without the cooperation of the record labels. We had heard that the company had been tussling with the music industry, particularly the recently sold WMG, and it seems those conflicts have not been resolved.

The purpose of services like these is to make music more accessible to users across all devices, and frankly, while being able to listen to your collection on your Android device and anywhere you can log in to your Google account is pretty handy, the limitations (no caching, purchasing songs, etc.) will make this product less attractive to consumers.

We�ve been waiting for a while for a music streaming/subscription service to really take off with consumers besides Spotify, since we still can�t use that in the U.S. Many have postulated that Google Music would be that service.

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Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office Released

Google once again comes up with its new feature Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office and giving advantage to MS Office customers to go beyond technology by using cloud service.

According to the Google Official Blog the new plug-in for Microsoft Office can be downloaded by everyone who have a Google Account. It allow users to sync all data of Office work from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications and upload them to Google�s cloud. From there all users can collaborate on the same versions of the files at the same time.

Cloud Connect for Office also has revision history and offline editing, letting you sync documents at a later date if you don�t have Internet access at the time of writing.

Google has also announced a 90-day Appsperience program that will let businesses test out all of the Google Apps for a small fee. The three month long test drive will cost $7,000 for companies that have 50 to 500 people or $15,000 for companies with more than 500 people.

Appsperience allows access to Google Apps, Google sites and to Google cloud connect along with new collaboration analytics that can be accessed directly through the Google Apps control panel.

As the Google Appsperience website states, at just $50 per user per year, the costs for using Google Apps for businesses is pretty low already, and the figures for the test drive don�t really show off the savings companies can make. The difference is that the Appsperience users can make use of additional support options that many businesses may well need when first starting out cloud based setups.

Google Cloud Connect can be installed on most versions of Office 2003, 2007 and 2010, but not with Office 2010 starter edition or any version that Microsoft�s Click-to-Run service has been used with.

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