Dial-in numbers and passcodes for company meetings are just one example of what is now available on Google thanks to the Search Google Calendar feature, added to Google's Web-based calendar service last November. Launched last year as part of Google's effort to develop a series of Web-based productivity applications, Google Calendar gives users the choice of keeping calendar entries private or publishing them for the world to see, but some Google Calendar users appear to be sharing their calendar information without realizing it. Quite a few corporate calendars can be found on Google Calendar yielding such tidbits as the date and time of vendor meetings and names of projects in the works.
News source: PC World
News source: PC World
Well DUH! They charge money for their software and undercut Microsoft by a large number. It would sell.
The same way that Opera did (and a whole lot of other publishers do like MSN with MSN/Windows Live Messenger), stick ad panes in the software.
Not your fault, just not a very good summary to cut and paste sentences like that.
The search feature isn't exposing private or privately shared data. These people are just dumb.
Putting corporate information into the servers of the company that specializes in searching might not be the best way to protect the mentioned corporate information!
Even if it was a mistake in how they setup google calander, I still don't like the idea of my apps being server side. Forget the problems you will have if your internet goes out and you can't even get to your data, but storing the info, private or not, on some server means that it could get hacked at some point. All your data could be lost also, what happens if one of these google servers goes poof? How will I get my data back? I suppose you could say they will have backups, but how old?
Anyways. online stuff like this, I just don't like it. I want apps on my PC as well as my data here also, thank you.
Putting corporate information into the servers of the company that specializes in searching might not be the best way to protect the mentioned corporate information...Tats true...
And only idiots put those corporate information into other company servers!
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http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPri...ationapp_1.html
Oh, and now Powerpoint...
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