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Google has released a slick new Android application for Google Docs that makes managing documents easier and adds the ability to convert images into text.
Editing documents is still done exclusively on the web, but the added functionality provided by the native Android app greatly improves the user experience of Google Docs on mobile devices.
Google also acknowledges that documents are meant to be shared and thus has added support for widgets that access stored contacts easier. It’s these kinds of improvements could reasonably lure people away from using traditional office suite software.
But perhaps the most notable addition is the new ability to convert words found in images into a document with editable text via Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This feature breathes new life into printed text and may prove deadly to old school book stores that invite customers to lounge around sampling its books and magazines.
The Google Docs app is consistent with the company’s overall strategy to attract new users by seamlessly integrating all of its services into the Android platform, which many have said makes Android devices more desirable than the competition.Apple said that the amount of data that the iPhone stores is a bug that we uncovered and plan to fix shortly. The company said that another bug meant that the iPhone would sometimes continue to update location data even when Location Services were turned off in the device settings. It said this would shortly be fixed too.
Martyn Ruks, technical director of security consultants MWR InfoSecurity, said: The things Apple is saying are entirely credible.
He said that the iPhone needed to track and store a certain amount of location data so that applications would work. He said: The technical solution theyve implemented to very quickly find your location involves those things.
Mr Ruks said that as technology grows more complex consumers face having to deal with the fact that their gadgets could be doing things that they dont know about or simply not use those gadgets at all.
In a strongly worded court filing, B&N denied all of Microsoft’s allegations, questioned the validity of Microsoft’s patents and demanded a jury trial in the federal case. It seems B&N is standing up to Microsoft, which has admitted its preferred venue for fighting Android is the courtroom.”Indeed, Microsoft is misusing these patents as part of a scheme to try to eliminate or marginalize the competition to its own Windows Phone 7 mobile device operating system posed by the open source Android operating system and other open source operating systems,” B&N said in a court filing Monday. “Microsoft’s conduct directly harms both competition for and consumers of eReaders, smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile electronic devices, and renders Microsoft’s patents unenforceable.”
In October, a few days after suing Motorola for allegedly using its patented technology in Android devices, Microsoft essentially told Android phone makers to pay up or get sued.
Currently, the Docs app is only available to devices running Android 2.1 or higher. But even if Google makes a version available for other platforms, don’t expect the same user experience Wholesale Battery
