Two Mysterious Google Developments
Mark Burstiner
Earlier today, Google rolled out an update to their popular (free) Google Docs service. In the coming weeks (I don't have it just yet) Google Docs users will be able to upload their own files of any persuasion to a shared folder for collaboration. Since Google Docs supports files up to 250MB in size for documents, they figured why not open up the doors for all kinds of file storage? Is this a harbinger of GDrives to come?
Well, according to Google, no. But it sure does seem a lot like it. Even the pricing is competitive. Users get 1GB free and it's only $.25/GB after that. Enterprise users can pay $17/yr for 5GB if they're into that.
And that's not all that Google has been up to. On December 16, Google incorporated a subsidiary in Delaware called Google Energy. So, open source energy, right? Well, probably not. What's more likely (according to CNET) is that the life-running behemoth is looking to get closer to carbon neutral, considering how much power their servers use.
Do you have the GDrive yet? And what do you make of this Google Energy business?
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