Google Unveils Web-based Calendar Application Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
Google has unveiled a free Web-based calendar application that is expected to heat up competition with Yahoo and Microsoft. The beta version of
Google Calendar, which can be accessed without a Gmail account, enables users to search for and add events from within the program or through Web sites that use open standards for calendars.
Such sites are invited to add Google Calendar buttons next to events they list. Users of the new Google application can also access events from friends' shared calendars and import events from Microsoft Outlook. Google has also built invitation management into Google Calendar. Users can create event invitations to be sent to anyone with an e-mail account. They can also send event reminders via e-mail or cell phone text message, and keep track of RSVPs from within the program. People can see their schedules by day, week, month and four- day views, highlight any period from a monthly calendar for a customized view and display only certain events at a time on their calendar view. The application interoperates with other calendaring applications that use Apple Computer's iCal or the XML standards. In the coming months, Google Calendar will be able to synchronize with Outlook and mobile devices. Like it is doing with other applications, such as Google Maps, the company is opening up the application programming interface (API) so outside developers can use it to build third-party programs that will work with Google Calendar data.
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