Sending and receiving attachments is an important part of email exchanges. While Google Drive offers a convenient way to share files of any size, sometimes you need to receive large files as direct email attachments. So starting today, you will be able to receive emails of up to 50MB directly. Note: Sending size limits will remain the same at 25MB; however, just as before, you can use Google Drive to send larger attachments....
Whether you’re a commuter reading the news with a spotty network, a farmer looking up crop prices with no service in the fields, or just driving through a tunnel, all is not lost when your search is interrupted by a bad connection. Now on the Google app for Android, even if your search fails, Google will deliver your results as soon as a connection is available—so you can keep searching with a single tap. Mobile networks can sometimes be inconsistent or spotty, which means that even if you have a connection when you start your search, it might fail...
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Google’s AR platform Tango is going to let museum visitors explore exhibits Ever seen an ancient mummy in a museum and wanted a closer look? I mean a much closer look. Google said Monday it is letting you do that and more through partnerships with museums around the world using its augmented reality platform Tango. By tapping the location and augmented reality capabilities of Tango, part of Google’s ambitious plan to map the indoor world, museum visitors will soon be able to learn more than exhibit signs and audio tours can offer. How about using an AR overlay to peer beneath a mummy’s sarcophagus...
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Register for the Upcoming Customer Experience Forum Consumers are becoming more comfortable interacting with companies across a growing number of channels, and as a result, they’re demanding a seamless and consistent approach across all those channels when it comes to customer service. Join DMIT and Zendesk on the 16th of February and learn about how companies around the globe are implementing Multi-Channel Customer Service. Hear best practices and real life case studies from here and across the globe. There will be food, drinks, and networking with other customer experience leaders, as well as members...
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Bangkok 19th January 2017 Demeter ICT, by Mr Phattarapol Kiratisin (Founder & Executive Director), receives the Certificate of IT Business Standard Registration from Software Industry Promotion Agency of Thailand (SIPA), Ministry of Digital Economy. The certificate states that the company provide the standardized application development, IT business operation and services to customers. Currently, Demeter ICT is one of the biggest G Suite (formerly Google for Work) partners in Thailand. Demeter ICT is also providing other cloud platform solutions, e.g. Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Zendesk, Google Add-On etc. Demeter ICT is also an owner of Mobinster, Mobile Platform Solution....
Google is convinced about the long-term of VR. The company is heavily pushing it through affordable hardware initiatives like Google Cardboard and Daydream. And now, Mountain View is bringing it to the classroom with the aim of introducing the concept to one million British schoolchildren. “We’ve already received feedback from thousands of teachers in the UK and they believe that Expeditions can improve literacy and writing skills, and help create excitement to complement traditional teaching methods.” Google Expeditions are available to any UK school, free of charge. The team behind it intends to visit schools in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Newcastle, and Inverness in...
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We’ve all been there. You’ve set up the perfect shot. Everyone is in position, the lighting is great, and the big moment has arrived. You’re just about to take the picture, when out of nowhere a box pops up, ruining the whole thing – “Storage Full.” This aggravating experience is the focus of a great new ad from Google Photos. The ad shows people setting up pictures – from selfies, to graduation pictures, to birthdays and beyond, only to be interrupted by that despised warning. The ad is (perfectly) set to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” The ad is showcasing the...
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Google today announced the launch of App Maker, the newest entry in the low-code, drag-and-drop app building market. Like its competitors from Microsoft and numerous startups, App Maker promises to make it easy for anybody to quickly develop basic apps that serve a very specific purpose inside an organization. The new service features a cloud-based drag-and-drop development environment that lets you build the user interface and populate it with data from your G Suite applications, Google Maps, Contacts and Groups and virtually any service that offers an API. These applications then run on the same infrastructure on which Google’s own G Suite apps run,...
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The Faroe Islands, an archipelago under Danish control in the North Atlantic Ocean, is now the site of a fascinating Google project. Because the islands are remote, Google never bothered to map them for Google Maps Street View. So several citizens went about trying to get Google to come and photograph the islands’ grassy hills and beautiful coastline. The islands are only home to about 50,000 people, but there over 70,000 sheep live there. So a couple of Faroese decided to strap cameras to the sheep and map out as much of the islands as they could. Google loved the effort,...
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