Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Google may have to give some serious consideration to renaming its online office suite of applications. With CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo that Google plans to add an online presentation application to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the web search leader will soon have a complete office productivity suite thanks to a company based in Australia and the US.
According to the Official Google Blog, the new
presentation application will be based on technology from a company in
Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco called Tonic Systems, which
Google has acquired and says has great technology for presentation
creation and document conversion.
As Google says: "We've already
freed those of you working in teams from the burdens of version control
and email attachment overload when going back and forth on word
processing and spreadsheets. It just made sense to add presentations to
the mix; after all, when you create slides, you're almost always going
to share them. Now students, writers, teachers, organizers, and, well,
just about everyone who uses a computer can look forward to having
real-time, web-based collaboration across even more common business
document formats."
CEO Eric Schmidt keeps doing his bit to
downplay the competitive aspect with Microsoft of having an online
office suite. He makes no exception with its new presentation product
as a competitor to PowerPoint.
However, whatever Schmidt utters
in this regard appears to be totally at odds with phrases like "it's a
better fit to how people use the web" and the sentiments expressed in
the Google blog.The new application has been closed for new beta
testers and is expected to be available in the second half of
2007.
David Bass
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