Today, new kinds of devices and media formats require considerably more interface bandwidth and higher transfer rates to move, store and edit data quickly.

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Using Google Apps for Education along with thousands of web apps in the Chrome Web Store, students can easily create documents, edit spreadsheets, view multimedia videos, create slide show presentations and view PDF files.

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If, after it collects many videos, the Google store offers consumers an easy way to move, edit, copy or share some of those files, it will have a clear advantage over the competition.

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Drive, which gives people a way to create and store documents online, as well as share documents and edit with multiple people.

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Now used in 8, 500 U.S. shops, PhotoNet allows retailers to digitize conventional photos and store digital images on central servers so customers can access them via the Internet, edit them, electronically send the results worldwide or order prints, mugs and other paraphernalia.

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