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CloudOn is releasing its free productivity app today in 60 countries across the globe, including: Albania, Algeria, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands. Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus/Malta, Czech Republic, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montserrat, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks & Caicos, UAE, Ukraine and the Virgin Islands. The cloud-based app, which delivers full Microsoft Office capabilities and Adobe Reader, along with Dropbox, Box and Google Drive integration, transforms the iPad and Android tablets into a one-stop-shop for mobile productivity, capable of creating, editing, saving and sharing Office and Adobe documents while on the go.

In early January, CloudOn launched on iOS and quickly became the no. 1 Free App and the no. 1 Productivity App for iPad in the U.S. Apple App Store. The app has since launched for both iOS and Android in the U.S., UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Israel and Iceland, receiving high critical acclaim, outstanding user reviews, and generating huge demand for the productivity app across the globe.

How it works:

The service operates by using the power of the cloud to connect to Microsoft Office software on CloudOn’s servers; this allows users to create and access Microsoft Office documents the way they are used to, using the exact same look and functionality. Users can track changes in Word, manipulate pivot tables in Excel and view PowerPoint slideshows in full presentation mode right from an iPad, and access them at anytime in their Dropbox or Google Drive account. iPad users can also sync to Box.net to access and save files.

CloudOn also provides Adobe Reader to view PDFs – everything from simple forms to complex 3-D documents – and a universal viewer for any file, ranging from raw Photoshop images to everyday image files, including: PNG, JPEG and GIF.

The app has a native, user-friendly interface fully optimized for the iPad and Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Honeycomb tablets, 3.1 or higher. CloudOn also comes with a host of other features designed to enhance mobile productivity, including:

In-app email integration to send emails along with attachments with a single tap
Automatic document saving and storage in Dropbox, Google Drive or Box for iOS; automatic document saving and storage in Dropbox or Google Drive for Android
Quick and easy 2-step in-app registration process
Anytime mobile access even in low-bandwidth conditions

To download CloudOn for your iPad, visit: http://itunes.apple.com/app/cloudon/id474025452

To download CloudOn for your Android tablet, visit: ­­­­­­­ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudon.client

To learn more about CloudOn, visit: www.cloudon.com

About CloudOn:

CloudOn is Silicon Valley based startup focused on mobile productivity. Its flagship product delivers full Microsoft Office capabilities with secure third party storage integration to the iPad making it easier than ever to create, edit, share and save the documents you need most while on the go. For more information visit: www.CloudOn.com, or follow us on Twitter @cloudoninc

CloudOn is a partner of Microsoft and Adobe, and has legitimately licensed the technology used to deliver the Microsoft Office and Adobe components of its service. For more information, visit http://help.cloudon.com/knowledgebase/articles/57737-is-cloudon-legal-

Cubby is the cloud data service to simply and securely share information across PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android devices, or with other people.

Cubby is the first service built on LogMeIn’s very own cloud data sync and storage platform letting people turn any number of PC or Mac folders into ‘cubbies’ that can be accessed from other devices, stored in the cloud, and shared with colleagues and friends. Cubby also gives people the option to simply share or sync an unlimited amount of information across their devices for free, and without ever counting against cloud storage limits.

So, to celebrate the next phase of the beta LogMeIn’s Cubby now offer users:
· New referral reward program – offering at least 2 x the additional free space (twice as much as Dropbox) per referral of any of the cloud sync and store offerings on the market. Cubbsters are given 1GB of additional space every time they refer a friend into Cubby. Simply invite 5 friends and it’ll double the free storage you already have (from 5GB to 10GB)

· Unlimited sharing of cubbies – sharing cubbies is half the fun of using Cubby and now LogMeIn allows users to share cubbies with everyone. Share your stuff with friends, family and colleagues alike for everyone to get the full Cubby experience and for easy and remote communication at all times

· Updated iOS app – the improved app is now available from the Apple app store allowing users to open and upload any file on the iPhone or iPad into Cubby. Also, open any Cubby file in other apps, like QuickOffice, Pages, Keynote, Evernote and even Dropbox

· Cubbies noted on desktop, explorer – now any folder that has been turned into a Cubby is marked with a Cubby icon when viewed on the desktop or via explorer to clearly mark cubbified folders

Google are retiring iGoogle in 16 months, on November 1, 2013. The mobile version will be retired on July 31, 2012.

“We originally launched iGoogle in 2005 before anyone could fully imagine the ways that today’s web and mobile apps would put personalized, real-time information at your fingertips. With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time, so we’ll be winding down iGoogle on November 1, 2013, giving you a full 16 months to adjust or easily export your iGoogle data.”

More at: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197

Google has announced Mobile App Analytics in beta called Mobile App Analytics that help marketers and developers better measure their mobile apps. The reports are tailored for mobile app developers and marketers, speaking the language that matters to them. They are designed to measure the entire mobile customer journey – from discovery to download to engagement. This enables the creation of app experiences that are more useful and engaging through data-driven decisions at each stage of the app lifecycle:

Acquisition and user metrics such as downloads and new users
Engagement metrics such as retention, crashes and conversions
Outcome metrics such as app sales and in-app purchases

More info: http://analytics.blogspot.fr/2012/06/measuring-mobile-world-introducing.html

Google have announced the launch of Google Analytics App for Android phones!

With the Google Analytics App, you can access the same accounts and profiles you see when you open Analytics from a desktop browser, but you’ll see reports that are optimized for your phone.

Swipe through these reports to see the essential data about your websites and apps announce the launch of Google Analytics App for Android phones!

With the Google Analytics App, you can access the same accounts and profiles you see when you open Analytics from a desktop browser, but you’ll see reports that are optimized for your phone.

Swipe through these reports to see the essential data about your websites and apps anywhere, anytime:
Real-Time: See the number of visitors you currently have and a list of the pages (for websites) or screens (for apps) that are currently popular.
Dashboard: Monitor the KPIs and user metrics you care about the most. By default, you’ll see your Daily Unique Visitors and your Goal Conversion Rate, but you can customize the dashboard to change which reports, metrics, or segments you see.
Automatic and Customized Alerts: Google Analytics detects statistical anomalies in your data and can send you an alert when something unusual happens. See either automatic alerts, or customize your settings to send alerts based on your own benchmarks.
anywhere, anytime:
Real-Time: See the number of visitors you currently have and a list of the pages (for websites) or screens (for apps) that are currently popular.
Dashboard: Monitor the KPIs and user metrics you care about the most. By default, you’ll see your Daily Unique Visitors and your Goal Conversion Rate, but you can customize the dashboard to change which reports, metrics, or segments you see.
Automatic and Customized Alerts: Google Analytics detects statistical anomalies in your data and can send you an alert when something unusual happens. See either automatic alerts, or customize your settings to send alerts based on your own benchmarks.

Google announced its first entry into the tablet market with the launch of the Google Nexus 7.

Commenting on the launch, Graham Stapleton, Chief Commercial Officer at Carphone Warehouse, says, “Consumer demand for tablets has exploded in just over two years since the launch of the first generation iPad. The wide range of devices now available means that consumer choice and buying power is stronger than ever. Google clearly believes that there is further scope to grow the market and the competitively priced Google Nexus will serve to make tablet devices more accessible to customers.

“The meteoric rise in the popularity of tablets can be attributed to changes in the way we are using the internet, managing relationships and consuming media. Our lives are more connected and ‘always on’ than ever before. It’s all about convenience; people don’t want to have to go to a desk and sit at a computer to surf the internet, do some online shopping, chat with friends or update a Facebook status – tablet devices lend themselves perfectly to all these activities, all from the comfort of the sofa. Whilst laptops have catered to this need in the past they are slightly cumbersome and awkward; tablets offer the ideal solution and represent the direction home computing is likely to take in the future as demand for clunky home desktop PCs decreases.”

Google Nexus features a 7 inch screen, quadcore processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB memory. It will be the first (and only for the next four months) tablet to run the new Jelly Bean operating system.

The Tablet, made by Asus, will be available from Carphone Warehouse priced at £199.99 standalone or for free on a tethered contact.

Info: http://www.google.com/nexus/#/7

Review: http://www.macnn.com/reviews/google-nexus-7-with-jelly-bean.html

Box has introduced its OneCloud service for Android. Box OneCloud brings together all your mobile content into the secure Box cloud. Experience productivity from anywhere and accelerate your business with a collection of mobile apps that integrate with Box to simplify and extend your workflow, while keeping content centralised on Box.

More info: https://www.box.com/business/features/onecloud/

PrivacyTest.com is a website tracking and privacy testing service designed to be used by the average non-technical internet user concerned with his or her privacy or online tracking. PrivacyTest.com allows internet users to anonymously test websites for web beacons, and other tracking mechanisms simply and securely.

Creator Rand Wilson wanted to build a simple, anonymous, free way for unsophisticated internet users to anonymously test a website without having to learn how to read web-server headers, HTML code or install special software or web-browser plugins. “We had two design goals for PrivacyTest.com. It had to be simple and it had to be free,” stated Wilson. “I thought, if my wife or parents could use the website and understand it, then it’s a success.”

PrivacyTest.com is now open for public beta testing and feedback and has already performed over 1,000 website privacy tests. Additional features and user interface updates are planned for rollout over the next 90 days.

Google have announced the introduction of custom themes in Gmail, reports the Official Gmail Blog.

Themes let you personalize your inbox with fun backgrounds, but they’re also practical, helping you easily differentiate between multiple Gmail inboxes (e.g. work and personal). Over the next couple of days Google are rolling out a new Custom themes section with two options, Light and Dark where you can do just that.

Three pay monthly phone customers will be able to enjoy the benefits of the internet on their smartphones whilst holidaying in the EU without the fear of running up a massive bill.

For just a fiver a day, customers can tweet, tag, browse, book, update, upload, search, send, and Google as much as they want without worrying about how much they’re spending.

So, if you’re trying to find that perfect pizzeria, you can just Google it and track it down on a map. If you can’t remember the word for donkey in Spanish, download a translation app. Or, if you really can’t resist finding out what’s going on at work, you can pick up your emails whenever you like and wherever you are. But best of all, you can make everyone back home insanely jealous with loads of gloaty “look where I am right now” type status updates and photos.

Thomas Malleschitz, marketing director at Three said, “We love the mobile internet at Three and we want our customers to enjoy it on holiday as much as they do at home. The Euro Internet Pass gives our customers the freedom to use the internet in the EU without having to think about how many megabytes or gigabytes they are using or where the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot is.

“We’ve been campaigning for lower data roaming rates and welcome the new regulation from Europe. These changes promote competition and allow us to offer our customers a better deal so they no longer have to worry about running up a massive bill when using the internet”.

Exciting news for Google Website Optimizer users that are forced to look for alternative A/B testing and multivariate testing – Convert Insights launches its application Convert Experiments with seamless Google Analytics integration. The company is even offering to migrate existing Google Website Optimizer users with A/B or multivariate tests to migrate to Convert Experiments.

“We are promising a seamless integration with Google Analytics in terms of multivariate testing, conversion and revenue tracking as well as real-time statistics to people that are forced to search alternative products to Google Website Optimizer. It was frustrating to see that June 1st 2012 Google announced the discontinuation of Google Website Optimizer (also know as GWO) and the only alternative solution offered was Google Analytics Content Experiments that has half of the features of Google Website Optimizer. With our team of 5 where each of us is a specialist or developer in conversion optimization it was natural we could extend a hand to users now stuck with expensive enterprise solutions,” says the spokesperson of Convert Insights, the company which was launched in 2009 brought their first A/B testing solution to users in 2010 and received funding from Alta Ventures to improve the lives of millions of online marketers and business owners. He further added that the launch of Convert Experiments is a joint effort by Claudiu Rogoveanu, Jeroen van der Tuin, Stefanie Baeker and Dennis van der Heijden.

The company stands apart from its competitors with their seamless Google Analytics integration, live-stats, multivariate testing, targeting dynamic eCommerce pages and its ability to track revenue and conversion with one line of code on a website, the so called tag-less integration that will make the life of agencies and marketer that use Google Analytics easier and are looking for Google Website Optimizer alternatives.

Convert Insights is reporting of a hundred percent growth every year and has received venture capital in 2011 as a back up for their development. – http://www.convert.com/

Microsoft has announced updates for Skydrive apps for Windows and Mac OS X Lion, on the Windows team blog.

Updates:
“SkyDrive for Windows desktop will power a cool new feature in the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, available the first week of June. Right from the Photos app in Windows 8, you can fetch photos stored on your other PCs that have SkyDrive installed – no matter where you are or how many terabytes of photos you have stored on the PC you are accessing. We’ll have more to say about this shortly, so stay tuned.

SkyDrive for OS X Lion no longer shows an app icon in the dock when running. We’ve definitely heard the feedback that it wasn’t necessary.

Your SkyDrive folder now updates more quickly and reliably when changes are made on other devices, including SkyDrive.com.

The limit on the number of total files in the SkyDrive folder created by the apps has been raised from 150,000 to a whopping 10 million! This should unblock some power users from easily adding lots of files to their SkyDrive folder.

We made lots of smaller bug fixes to improve overall reliability.”

Read more at: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2012/05/30/updates-to-the-skydrive-apps-for-windows-and-mac.aspx