Print from any web-enabled device including your smartphone.
As promised, Google (GOOG) is starting to roll out its Cloud Print services to its Gmail clients who want to print an email, document or PDF file to their printers through the internet. The process is pretty straight forward on the client side, (which incidentally includes any device that can read Gmail). It gets much more complicated on the printer side.
First, you'll need to have a PC running Windows (oh the irony!). You'll need to install a special beta version of the Chrome Browser for Windows, which includes some printing proxy software. That may not please your IT guy if you are at work.
Macs and Linux will be supported in the future but at the moment, it works on PCs only. More
The results of a new survey bode well for news, not so well for the printed word
Source: technobuffalo.com
Here's what a team at the Missouri School of Journalism learned in a survey of 1,609 Apple (AAPL) iPad owners conducted over the past three months:
Using the iPad to follow breaking news reports and current events is the most popular use for the device, with 84.4% of respondents saying this MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 10, 2010 11:48 AM ET
While we wait for Google's own web printing standard to materialize, Pogoplug has a Cloud printing solution and Cloud storage available now.
Pogoplug Biz
Pogoplug announced two new products today that will help businesses, especially those who do a lot of their work in the Cloud (*ahem Google Apps), operate with traditional file servers and printers.
Pogoplug Print is a device you connect to your USB printer. It is compatible with any MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 31, 2010 1:35 PM ET
Printing to the cloud means more than just kissing driver woes goodbye.
Google has a new solution for printing documents in Chrome OS and, by extension, the rest of the web. Instead of installing drivers on your computer for a particular model of printer, Google wants change the way you do your printing with Google Cloud Print.
The service would send print jobs inside the webpage to a Google (GOOG) hosted server where it MORE
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