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A Google Apps intranet. How to use your Google Maps offline [updated: video] I use Google Maps almost daily.

Whether it be to scope out the quickest route to get somewhere or just to figure out where exactly I am when I’m visiting a new area, it’s an indispensable tool that I’ve come to rely on. But I often find myself in situations where I either have no cell or Wi-Fi reception or would incur huge roaming costs, and Google Maps becomes impractical to use. However, there are a few ways that you can get your maps offline so that you don’t need to consume data each time you want to look at them. Update: Video tutorial added. Google Cloud goes after Amazon by slashing prices, adding new products. Businesses looking for major storage often lean on Amazon and its cloud service platform, but Google doesn't want to be the second-string option anymore.

During its Cloud Platform conference held on Tuesday in San Francisco, the company announced price updates and new products to help customers get up and working in the cloud faster. And ultimately, earn some bigger marketshare in the cloud storage space. Google also slashed the prices for its Cloud Platform that should make both large and small-scale business partners happy. Google also slashed the prices for its Cloud Platform that should make both large and small-scale business partners happy.

In addition to a 10% drop in pricing last month, here's a look at the latest cuts: BigQuery Storage falls almost 25%; PD Snapshots is down about 80%. An open email to Google Inbox. Dear Google Inbox: I wanted to hate you.

I really did. At first I thought: "Oh, you think you're so great with your fancy Material Design and snobby invitation-only access. But I know your type. You're really out to kill my beloved email, and take away control from me and give it to some faceless algorithm that never sleeps. " Google Unveils 'Inbox,' a New App to Change How You Manage Email. Remember when Gmail unveiled the new inbox tabs layout?

Marketers freaked out. Suddenly marketing emails were relegated to an off-the-beaten-path folder where lots of people thought they would rot forever. Well, Google's ready to tug on our marketing heartstrings again. Two days ago, they started rolling out a brand new mobile and web app called Inbox. Though it’s definitely not as drastic as the initial layout change, since the rollout has been slow, marketers have been wondering what makes Inbox different and how it will affect their day-to-day jobs. To help us all get to the bottom of this new release, we requested access and spent a few hours playing around with the new tool. How to Get 'Inbox' I know what you care about most: how you can get access, too. Inbox is available for personal Gmail accounts (not those using Google Apps) on iPhone (iOS 7 and up), Android (4.1 and up), and Chrome. Want to request access? How Inbox Works The Inbox Ahh, the inbox.

Bundles Pins Sweep Reminders Snooze. Google Launches Inbox to Reinvent the Email App. Google wants to change email for the better.

To do it, it's launching a new email app, separate from Gmail, called Inbox. Announced via blog post, Inbox builds upon Gmail's relatively successful tabs, which introduced new buckets for Social updates and Promotions. The app features Bundles, which will group together similar kinds of messages, so things like bank statements and receipts are grouped together.

Bundles will be user-customizable as well. There's also Highlights, which puts important emails front and center — photos from friends, flight itineraries and event information all qualify. 4 Crazy Google Ambitions. Google cloud adds easy installation of Mesosphere's hot management software. Google has teamed up with Mesosphere, a startup with software for deploying applications on any and all available computing infrastructure, to set up that software on Google’s cloud by clicking just a few buttons.

The companies are also working to integrate an open-source program Google recently whipped up, Kubernetes, with Mesosphere’s software, with an eye toward helping developers run applications at scale easily and efficiently, especially in the form of trendy Docker containers that package up application code. At the same time, increased efficiency in the public cloud could mean lowering the bills. And businesspeople at companies paying for cloud infrastructure can get behind that. “I think it’s going to change the business, it’s going to change the way people operate,” Craig McLuckie, a senior product manager at Google, said of the Mesosphere and Kubernetes technologies in an interview with VentureBeat. “We can now orchestrate Dockers at scale,” Leibert said. Powered by VBProfiles. Buying Twitch Gets Google More Than Video Game Spectators.

Google (GOOG) appears to have reached an agreement to buy Twitch, a company whose main business is live-streaming videos of people playing video games.

A pending deal was first reported by Variety in May, and now VentureBeat says an arrangement has been finalized and will be worth more than $1 billion. If such a deal goes through, it would be a massive validation for the burgeoning industry of watching other people play games. Video game competitions have emerged as a business big enough to support tournaments with multimillion-dollar purses and stadiums in California and Macau. Live-streaming capabilities are now built into gaming consoles and mobile devices. All of this means that Twitch would be having its moment, even without Google’s interest. Twitch was founded in 2011 and now has 50 million unique users.

Google is well aware that gaming makes up a sizable amount of the activity on YouTube. Crazy-Interesting Facts About Google. Google Classroom now available, makes paper assignments obsolete. Google Classroom, first introduced back in May, has officially been launched for users at large, providing an alternative to paper-centric lesson plans for teachers and other educators.

With the service, one can create digital assignments and monitor students' progress. The service has already been put to use at some schools, including Brooklyn's Fontbonne Hall Academy, where Google received feedback to further shape the offering. As of now, Google Classroom is available to anyone who uses Google Apps for Education. The service works in a pretty straight-forward way: teachers can create assignments, such as the one featured in the screenshot above. 6 Awesome Google Tools for Small Businesses. :: Jessica Davis, Godot Media :: For most individuals, Google is the most trustworthy search engine out there and most of us turn to Google for any requirement that we may have online.

However, most people forget that the largest search engine provider is also a great believer in small businesses. Google wants to be able to help small businesses as much as possible and the company has launched a lot of products and tools to help any kind of business get off the ground and thrive. Google is much more than just a search engine and if you look hard enough, you will find a treasure chest of tools to help your small business grow.

Here are six of the best tools that Google offers small businesses. 1. Google Tests "Listen Now" Ads for Music Searches. Google is testing "Listen Now" ads with the likes of digital music services Spotify, Rhapsody, and Beats Music, the Wall Street Journal reports.

A Google representative confirmed the music ad tests. When consumers search for musicians via Google on desktop or mobile devices, the display ads appear grouped together under a "Listen Now" label and promote services that also include Google Play. The ads appear within Google's Knowledge Graph. When SEW tested out the function, it appears results are most often displayed for Google Play, followed by Rhapsody and Spotify for artists as varied as Cher, Diana Ross, Conway Twitty, Ludacris, and Megadeth.

Google began testing the ads earlier this year, the representative says. Google beat social, but it can’t beat mobile. How Google Benefits From The Increased Market Share Of The Android Open Source Project. Report: Google Planning to Separate Photos From Google+ Google will soon be cleansing Google+ from another service, according to a new report. Bloomberg reports the company is planning to make Google+ Photos a standalone service, which would mean a Google user wouldn't need a Google+ account to save and share photos with Google. Photos would also presumably have their own app and portal separate from Google+.

Google is extracting photos from Google+ in a bid to attract more users, the report says, citing anonymous sources. Google's peculiar floating barge meets its maker. Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account. Google Seeks Community Help To Improve Google Translate. Google Image Result for. Goyams - hitting 3 Search Engines with one click. Searchmash.