Google drive is new entry in world of cloud storage offering. Since it is from Google, people have lot of expectations from this service which is free online storage of 5Gb. More comes for a small price. Right now it is not immediately setup for you and may take a day or two for it to be setup. I tried mine yesterday and it is setup this morning.
Here is a comparison of free drives available on cloud:
HOW MUCH FREE SPACE DO YOU GET?
Dropbox: 2GB
Amazon Cloud Drive: 5GB
Google Drive: 5GB
SkyDrive: 7GB
WHAT IS THE LARGEST FILE YOU CAN UPLOAD?
Dropbox: 300MB on website; no limit on desktop
Amazon Cloud Drive: 2GB
SkyDrive: 2GB
Google Drive: 10GB
So it is clear that Google wins as far as large files are concerned. They allow more than 30 types of files to be uploaded and shared with any one.
Great going Google! Keep it up.

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Apple’s visionary co-founder Steve Jobs died from cancer at 56, a premature end for a man who revolutionized modern culture with ubiquitous inventions like the iPod and the iPad.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” the California-based gadgetmaker said in a statement from its board of directors.

“Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”

Tim Cook — who had been handling Apple’s day-to-day operations since Jobs went on medical leave in January, and was made CEO in August — led the praise for the Silicon Valley legend.

“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor,” he said.

“Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”

Apple turned its home page into a tribute to Jobs, posting a large black-and-white photo of the bearded high-tech maestro in his trademark black turtleneck and small round glasses. The only caption: “Steve Jobs, 1955-2011.”

When a user clicks on the photo, they are taken to Cook’s message in remembrance of Jobs, who died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Apple fans were invited to share their thoughts, memories and condolences by sending messages to rememberingsteve@apple.com. The rest of the website and Apple’s online store remained accessible.

Jobs’ family also issued a statement, saying he had died surrounded by his relatives.

“In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family,” it said.

“We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.”

Born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco to a single mother and adopted by a couple in nearby Mountain View at barely a week old, Jobs grew up among the orchards that would one day become the technology hub known as Silicon Valley.

He was just 21 and Steve Wozniak 26 when they founded Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs’s family home in 1976.

Under Jobs, the company introduced its first Apple computers and then the Macintosh, which became wildly popular in the 1980s.

Jobs was elevated to idol status by ranks of Macintosh computer devotees, many of whom saw themselves as a sort of rebel alliance opposing the powerful empire Microsoft built with its ubiquitous Windows operating systems.

Jobs left Apple in 1985 after an internal power struggle and started NeXT Computer company specializing in sophisticated workstations for businesses.

He co-founded Academy-Award-winning Pixar in 1986 from a former Lucasfilm computer graphics unit that he bought from movie industry titan George Lucas.

Apple’s luster faded after Jobs left the company, but they reconciled in 1996 with Apple buying NeXT for $429 million and Jobs ascending once again to the Apple throne.

Apple went from strength to strength as Jobs revamped the Macintosh line, revolutionizing modern culture and launching a “post-PC era” in which personal computers give way to smart mobile gadgets — the iPod, iPhone and the iPad.

His passing will raise doubts over whether the Cupertino, California-based company can continue its dominance in the hugely competitive technology sector.

Jobs is survived by his wife Laurene, with whom he had three children. He also had a daughter with a woman he dated prior to marrying

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was named worst-dressed man in technology by GQ magazine, beating out Apple’s Steve Jobs and proving that astronomical sums of money can’t buy style.

Zuckerberg hit the top spot in the tongue-in-chic survey because of his casual, forever-collegiate wardrobe of ill-fitting hoodies, jeans, t-shirts and Adidas sandals, which GQ called a “fresh-from-Stats-class look.”

The CEO is “oblivious to the fact that jeans and ties come in skinny sizes — or that suits exist.” Zuckerberg has donned suit jackets in the past, such as when he met with President Barack Obama for a tech summit with major technology executives, but stuck with his trademark jeans even on these special occasions.

The social network CEO’s style has even inspired a mock fashion line, Mark by Mark Zuckerberg, “which thankfully doesn’t sell any actual clothing,” according to GQ.

Zuckerberg managed to beat out Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who took second place in GQ’s poll. Jobs was criticized for his trademark uniform of “black turtleneck, dad jeans and Seinfeld kicks,” which the magazine said was a “style blunder no AutoCorrect can fix.”

“Apple releases an iPhone every 0.5 seconds,” said the magazine. “Steve Jobs never gets an upgrade.”

Taking third place was Microsoft founder Bill Gates, which GQ took down for his “lazy preppy” wardrobe.

“Curious how Harry Potter will age post-Hogwarts?” GQ said. “When you’re Scrooge McDuck rich, a snazzy ensemble isn’t tops on your to-do.”

Other high-ranking tech executives who made the GQ worst-dressed tech list were HTC CEO Peter Chou, with his penchant for loose, high-waisted jeans; Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, who apparently dresses like a fisherman; and Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who stepped over the “fine line between looking ‘artsy’ and uncomfortable.”

Of course, Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates and other tech leaders probably are too busy guiding world-changing technology companies to make style much of a priority. They can take consolation in their personal wealth — Zuckerberg’s fortune, for example, was recently estimated to be at least $18 billion. Fashion arbiters would probably suggest, however, that a bit more of it go to spiffing up his wardrobe.

This post originally appeared at Mobiledia.

Google’s  Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer  Mr. David Drummond has written in official Google Blog about whole story of patent attack on android calling it all bogus patents. Read full blog from google’s official blog at this link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html

It was a wonderful meetup last evening with special guest speaker from Bali (Indonesia) Ric Shreves spoke in length on pros and cons of top 3 open source CMS which are Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. While WordPress has top slot as far as as number of downloads are concerned, Drupal was most suitable CMS system on several parameters.
More than 20 Drupal meetup group members attended this meetup. Ric Shreves has authored several books on Drupal with Drupal Bible being most popular book.

Skype has yet again gone down, with little explanation being offered as to why.

Users are reporting issues connecting to the internet phone service, with those affected experiencing problems with calling and messaging contacts.

The Skype Heartbeat website, which lets users know what problems are occurring, has admitted to some issues but not revealed what has caused them.

Skype’s “blogger-in-chief,” Peter Parkes, merely wrote: “A small number of you may have problems signing in to Skype. We’re investigating the cause, and hope to have more details to share soon.”

This is the second time Skype has broken in just two weeks, with customers facing similar issues towards the end of May.

IT PRO contacted Skype’s press office to try and find out more details, but it had not returned our request at the time of publication.

The ongoing problems with the service come at a time of big change for the European company. At the beginning of May, Skype was bought for $8.5 billion by software behemoth Microsoft.

The deal is yet to close so Skype’s chief executive, Tony Bates, must be hoping these glitches don’t put off his buyers.

Bad news for small business people is Google Apps free version users have been reduced from 50 to 10 users only. However, existing users will not be affected and they can use their original limit as set by google.