Los Angeles City Council switches to Google Apps!
More good news for Google as the city of Los Angeles has now decided to shift to Google Apps from Microsoft powered solutions.
This deal is worth around USD 7.2 million.
This contract is however tentative as the provider of the service Computer Sciences would have to [...]
IBM LotusLive iNotes takes on Google with a basic email service for companies
IBM has announced their hosted email service IBM LotusLive iNotes that would cost companies around $36 annually per worker.
The main rival in this segment of the market is Google which offers the premier version of Google Apps for $50 per year per [...]
Google Sites: Import and Export now possible
Google’s Data Liberation team has developed a new java based application google-sites-liberation that you can use ti import and export Google Sites.
The application makes available offline copies of both the content on the site along with attachments.
The same can be imported back into another site using [...]
Google Apps Education Edition being used by over 5 million students!
Google has revealed in a blog post that their Google Apps Education Edition is being used by over five million students in more than 145 countries.
This number has increased significantly in the last year along. The service has seen a growth of almost [...]
Google Short Links to get your own link shortening service!
Google has a product in their Labs named Google Short Links which can be used to get your own link shortening service hosted on your owned domain.
The service is powered by Google Apps and your domain needs to be connected to this platform.
It [...]
Google to advertise Google Apps through billboards in USA
Google has rarely advertised outside the web medium.
Google Chrome was featured in some television advertising.
And now the search engine giant would promote their Google Apps web services through billboards in the US market.
Sources say that the company has leased billboards in major American cities including [...]
Google confirms Google Apps Standard Edition is still free
Google Apps Standard Edition is one of the most useful services provided by Google to budding web entrepreneurs.
The service enables anyone to get a hosted web application suite linked to one’s domain.
So, you can use your own email Ids with Gmail and Google Docs functionality.
The [...]
Beta label might disappear from some Google services
Google is often blamed for misusing the concept of Beta services and products.
The company launches almost all of their products and services in beta. And a couple of them have remained beta even after several years of launch.
Google Gmail is one of the biggest victims of this [...]
Gmail down. Complaints all over Twitter…
Google Gmail webmail service is down for us at this very moment. It has been down since the last 30 minutes or so.
We are not alone. We know that thanks to Twitter.
Twitter is full of messages posted by Gmail users in the last couple of minutes about how [...]
Google brings Push Gmail and Calendar to Blackberry
Google has announced that they are now providing a service that would push Gmail and Calendar items to native Blackberry applications.
This service would be provided to customers of Premier and Education editions of Google Apps.
This service is targeted at customers who prefer to use Blackberry’s own native applications [...]
