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Google Docs Get Mobile

  • eWeek, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:30 PM
Google just upgraded its Google Docs editors, which, according to eWeek, rewrites the apps' code with HTML5 and accelerates the apps to improve the user experience. Of key importance, the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps have also been optimized for Google Android, Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry smartphones. "For the most part, the Docs viewing experience should [be] as good on smartphones as it is on the desktop, thanks largely to the Docs rewrite," Anil Sabharwal, enterprise product manager for Google Docs tells eWeek.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently encouraged enterprises to consider mobile devices first when building their IT architectures. "What's really important right now is to get the mobile architecture right because mobility will ultimately be the way in which you provision most of your services," Schmidt said during Google's Atmosphere cloud computing event on Monday.

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