Google GDrive Official Description
Designer Brian Ussery spotted an reference to the GDrive in a file within Google’s suite of apps, the Google Pack.
GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone.
iWork : Apple Competes with Google Docs
Apple today introduced iWork ’09, the latest version of Apple’s popular office productivity suite, which adds powerful new features without sacrificing Apple’s legendary ease of use. The web-based app will apparently be tightly integrated with the OS-bound iWork app, and let you easily share documents with contacts who can add notes and make edits, again, much like Google Docs, albeit in an environment that closely resembles the standard iWork apps.
GMDesk Runs Gmail, Google Docs & Google Apps in one Window
GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a standalone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with. No need to open it up in a web browser, or have it clutter your workspace. Fire up GMDesk, and just alt-tab (on Windows or Linux) or Cmd-tab (on Mac) to shift between this application and the other ones you are running. In all, GMDesk supports Gmail, Google Calendar, Reader, Documents, Maps and Picasa through its service.
Google removes Firefox from Google Pack
Google Pack is a one-download collection of Google-made and third-party applications that includes Google Desktop, Google Earth, Picasa, Adobe Reader and Norton Security Scan. The search giant today replaced Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox with Chrome as the default browser in the English version of Google Pack.
