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SMEStorage open cloud platform now supports Google sites

Posted by | May 16, 2011 | , |

The SMEStorage Open Cloud Platform (http://www.smestorage.com) has now added support for Google Sites so that Google Sites users can access, modify, and upload data to to Google SIies from a variety of desktop and mobile clients.

Google Sites can be used with the SMEStorage Open Cloud Platform for free by registering a free account at SMEStorage. The free windows dashboard and Linux tools can be used to work with Google Sites but certain tools and features.

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‘YML’ looks at Google, Amazon, Apple, more

Posted by | May 12, 2011 | |

The new “Your Mac Life” episode looks at the privacy concerns regarding Apple and Google, Amazon developments and more. Also, “IRC Babe Sly” will have her announcements and announce the “Web Site of the Week.”

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

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Senator wants Apple, Google to remove DUI checkpoint apps

Senator wants Apple, Google to remove DUI checkpoint apps

Posted by | May 11, 2011 | , |

Apple and Apple are under pressure from Senator Charles Schumer to remove smartphone apps that alert users to the locations of nearby police DUI checkpoints, according to “PC World” (http://macte.ch/qoP6d).

These apps typically use your device’s GPS capabilities to alert you to nearby speed traps, red light traffic cameras, and DUI checkpoints from a database of user-generated locations. Schumer asked Apple and Google to consider whether these apps violate the companies’ respective terms of service by facilitating illegal activity, notes “PC World.”

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US lawmakers ‘scold’ Apple, Google

US lawmakers ‘scold’ Apple, Google

Posted by | May 11, 2011 | , |

U.S. lawmakers considering new privacy laws “scolded” Apple and Google Tuesday for not doing enough to guard mobile device users’ location data, despite executives’ assertions that they don’t abuse the information, reports “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/m9bOS).

“I have serious doubts about whether those rights are being respected in law or in practice,” Democratic Senator Al Franken said at a hearing of a new subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.

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Updated Zulu syncs FileMaker to Google Contacts

Posted by | May 11, 2011 | , |

SeedCode says the new version of Zulu now syncs FileMaker contacts with your Google Contacts. Zulu is an extension for FileMaker Server that syncs Calendars and Contacts automatically.

Users can see and edit FileMaker data from iCal or Google Calendar and from the calendars on their iPhones or iPads. Now Zulu offers the same thing for contacts so you can work with them online in Google, in the iPhone’s address book, and in the Mac Address Book app.

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