Sunday 18 December 2016

ETECSA and Google sign agreement


Photo: Jose M. Correa

"The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) and U.S. company Google confirmed this December 12 the signing of an agreement to offer the Google Global Cache service on the island, as was agreed on November 23, with the intention of improving the online experience of Cubans using products from the world’s leading search engine."

To read more
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2016-12-13/etecsa-and-google-sign-agreement-to-improve-services-in-cuba




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Tuesday 20 September 2016

Google takes privacy seriously... any issues are moo..t


from
David Shariatmadari - @D_Shariatmadari - Head of opinion, Guardian US

The algo works away on its own and decided this cow was well.. a person...

Get out of my way, you cow...

Thursday 18 August 2016

Add images to questions and answers in Google Forms





















Google Forms makes it easy to create, distribute, and analyse surveys. You can now insert images into survey questions or add images as multiple choice or checkbox options in Forms on the web.

Read more..
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/add-images-to-questions-and-answers-in.html

Thursday 4 August 2016

Notifying Android users natively when devices are added to their account to keep them secure




Google offers useful and simple-to-use security features such as 2-Step Verification and Single Sign-On in order to protect users who connect to their accounts on multiple devices. One equally important component in keeping users secure is educating them on what’s happening with their accounts in real-time.

Read more..
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/notifying-android-users-natively-when.html

Thursday 12 May 2016

Devices today and in the future | Chrome, Android



Insights on Google’s strategy on devices. Drea leads an interview with Rajen Sheth, Director of Product Management for Chrome and Android for Work/EDU. 
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Wednesday 30 March 2016

The Apps Show | Using sheets for planning or tracking tasks

See how Google Operations and Support teams use sheets for a variety of tasks, such as workflow setup or project planning.



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Friday 11 March 2016

The Apps Show | How to form a new team? | Groups, Sheets, Calendar

A look at how  teams at Google have been handling staff growth, thanks to some key Google Apps



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Saturday 20 February 2016

Ireland has been ranked the least complex country for multinational enterprises

London, UK, 16 February 2016 – Ireland has been ranked the least complex country for multinational enterprises to comply with corporate regulation and legislation during 2015, according to TMF Group’s Global Benchmark Complexity Index, improving its position by three places from 2014

Read more here - http://www.tmf-group.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/international-complexity-press-release#%2EVsSU06YwMxU%2Elinkedin

Read the full report here - http://www.tmf-global-compliance.com/?utm_source=TMF%20Group%20BV&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016_Q1_Camp

viva Irlanda :-)



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Tuesday 9 February 2016

A Cyberspace Independence Declaration from 1996


After 20 years of legal wrangling and government manoeuvring to control the internet and indeed thought itself and the freedom to express ones own opinions the Blockchain is now able to deliver the independence and primacy of the individual. The corrupt self interest of the politicians, liars, cheats and thieves that comprise the majority of those in positions of power governing us, bullying us, killing us, legislating for us.

The illusion of democracy is about to disappear, the leaders of this revolution are the individual technologists.

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20 years today - on Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:16:35 +0100 John Perry Barlow issued

A Cyberspace Independence Declaration


https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration


See the full text
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Yesterday, that great invertebrate in the White House signed into the law the Telecom "Reform" Act of 1996, while Tipper Gore took digital photographs of the proceedings to be included in a book called "24 Hours in Cyberspace."

I had also been asked to participate in the creation of this book by writing something appropriate to the moment. Given the atrocity that this legislation would seek to inflict on the Net, I decided it was as good a time as any to dump some tea in the virtual harbor.

After all, the Telecom "Reform" Act, passed in the Senate with only 5 dissenting votes, makes it unlawful, and punishable by a $250,000 to say "shit" online. Or, for that matter, to say any of the other 7 dirty words prohibited in broadcast media. Or to discuss abortion openly. Or to talk about any bodily function in any but the most clinical terms.

It attempts to place more restrictive constraints on the conversation in Cyberspace than presently exist in the Senate cafeteria, where I have dined and heard colorful indecencies spoken by United States senators on every occasion I did.

This bill was enacted upon us by people who haven't the slightest idea who we are or where our conversation is being conducted. It is, as my good friend and Wired Editor Louis Rossetto put it, as though "the illiterate could tell you what to read."

Well, fuck them.

Or, more to the point, let us now take our leave of them. They have declared war on Cyberspace. Let us show them how cunning, baffling, and powerful we can be in our own defense.

I have written something (with characteristic grandiosity) that I hope will become one of many means to this end. If you find it useful, I hope you will pass it on as widely as possible. You can leave my name off it if you like, because I don't care about the credit. I really don't.

But I do hope this cry will echo across Cyberspace, changing and growing and self-replicating, until it becomes a great shout equal to the idiocy they have just inflicted upon us.

I give you...



A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do  you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications.  Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are based on matter, There is no matter here.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis.  But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996

Friday 1 January 2016

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