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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Serena Software to use Google Apps instead of Microsoft Exchange
Serena Software has announced that they are now going to move their email from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps hosted Gmail.
The company expects to save $750,000 per year by removing their dependence on Microsoft Exchange.
Serena has around 800 employees.
They expect to complete the transformation by the [...]

Google Apps gets A-OK On-Demand authentication service
Arcot Systems has announced that they are now offering their A-OK On-Demand authentication service to the users of the Google Apps Premier Edition users.
This feature would add another layer of security to the logon process on the Google hosted service.
With this technology, an encrypted file that is stored on [...]