It’s an unfortunate and startling statistic: by the time you’ve finished reading this opening paragraph, someone in the US will have become a victim of burglary. That’s because, according to figures recently released by My Protection Link, a home is broken into, on average, every 14.6 seconds. “The numbers prove that home security is a hugely important issue for Americans,” said researcher Gerard Hoyt. Since locking doors and shutting windows isn’t always enough, it’s perhaps unsurprising that people have turned to technology to seek preventative measures.   Password…

Remember Google Buzz, the attempt prior to Google+ for the company to get social? It was shut down in October, 2011, but never actually died. Believe it or not, everything that you had (if you had anything) on the old platform is still available. That finally ends in July after nearly 2 years of lingering on its death bed. Today, Google sent old Buzz users this email: Buzz user, In October 2011 we announced Google Buzz was shutting down. On or after July 17th, 2013, Google will take the last step in the shutdown and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your Google Drive, a service for storing files online….

Wednesday morning, Twitter users flocked to the social media site to complain that Google Apps weren’t working. The problems started with Gmail and Google Drive before spreading to Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Presentations. Google quickly addressed the situation and users were advised to check the Apps Status Dashboard for updates as they investigated the case. We are often inconvenienced by crashing servers or website maintenance, but Google? We take it for granted that giants like Google will be able to run their services smoothly, constantly. When they can’t,…

Some of you may already be familiar with Google Drive since it has been available to try and accessible as an app on Android. However, for the rest of us, we remain curious as to what will happen to our Google Documents once Google Drive takes effect. Of course certain small changes will occur such as documents at the header will show up as “drive” and your created and shared documents will be separated indicating ownerships and updates on the right-hand side with the added feature of avatars. …