Third-party developers will be able to use Documents in the Cloud to add the same functionality to their own wares, and I hope that many of them will.

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First, Documents in the cloud.

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After all, what is more secure, sensitive documents stored in laptops and smartphones that can be easily lost or stolen, or sensitive documents housed in the cloud behind several layers of security?

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The Online Communication and Geolocation Protection Act would require a warrant before the government could demand access to any emails or to documents stored in the cloud.

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In my tests, I was able to create documents on an iPad in each of the three cloud-based Office programs.

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This is where cloud-based offers and services will definitely ease the integration process, by centralizing profiles, documents, data, information and knowledge in the cloud.

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Documents can also be stored in the cloud, for retrieval via printer later on.

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Acer Chromebook customers are offered up to 100GB of free Google Drive storage for the first two years after purchase, so files, documents, photos and more are stored safely in the cloud even if the Acer C7 is lost, damaged or stolen.

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In addition, signed contracts are archived in the cloud, making it easy for users to retrieve documents from anywhere, at any time, via a Web browser.

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