Google To Add Presentations

A number of readers (some from the audience at Web 2.0 Expo) wrote to let us know that Google is adding presentations to their Docs and Spreadsheets package. With the announcement the company revealed that they have purchased Tonic Systems to help with the new presentation software. It's expected to be ready by summer. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was asked if Docs and Spreadsheets will compete with MS Office, and he said, "We don't think so. It doesn't have all the functionality, nor is it intended to have the functionality of products like Microsoft Office."

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Internet access...where?

[LinDVD]

You said:"Internet access is rarely provided or flakey at best"

Could you please elaborate a bit further? You see the problem I have with your statement is I am now using EV-DO via my smart phone for high speed wireless broadband in major metropolitan areas, tethered to my machine here (PDA net). My plan is currently via US Sprint, although you can also go with Verizon and Cingular/AT&T has their own system called 3G. I can tell you from personal experience that EV-DO from my place here is 450 kilobit/sec download-anything but flakey and in select cities, like San Francisco EV-DO is even faster, supporting up to 1 megabit/sec download.

Oh and the upload speeds are lighting quick too, exceeding 150 kilobits/sec most of the time.

The fee? $15 a month-unlimited data, on top of a voice plan which is $40 per month (450 minutes), and if you run out of minutes, just use Skype...so using Google's stuff isn't so bad, really, depending on where you are in the country.