Someone has even set up a collaborative Google document for the band to suggest ideas for an album title.
That one critical moment you need that one contact, or you need to access that document on Google Docs, you may not have it.
The court order is made in secret and remains secret - meaning it would not show up in things such as Google's transparency reports, which aim to document data requests from governments around the world.
Google's new service also works with third-party document creation and editing apps that are built to work with it.
"We decided to voluntarily make the entire document available except for the names of individuals, " a Google spokeswoman said.
If you're thinking that makes no sense because Android is "open, " well, you might have another think coming -- Skyhook claims that Google's decisions to allow access to Android Market and its branded apps are an entirely subjective ruse based on something called the Compliance Definition Document, which can be "arbitrarily" interpreted any way Google wants with no recourse.
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Google Buzz could create a complete collaborative dial tone but at this point it is not possible to use it with Google Apps, which has the email, contacts, calendar, and shared document functionality.
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And you could argue that Google Drive offers the same functionality and storage space, albeit tied tightly to their document editing software.
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The most glaring shortcoming: You can't use Google Apps offline, so you can forget about putting together a slide show or document while working on an airplane.
Google has made its Apps business--its online calendar, e-mail, document sharing and other services--compliant for government use, a move the company hopes will help direct sales to the world's largest information technology business and improve its profile with private-sector corporate customers.
Google has its Google docs tools, so if you wanted to create a spreadsheet or any type of text document you would simply go to a web page that has all the functionalities of a word processor, but because it's taking place on the Internet, you can access it from anywhere, and you can get other people accessing it as well.
With Google Docs, a free service run through Gmail, you can work simultaneously with colleagues on a document or spreadsheet.
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