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Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation has announced that ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, unlike the previous version which was developed on CentOS 5.x.The final version of the ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 Linux distri... |
23 December 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Google doodles keep things fresh, more than anything else. Visits to the Google homepage are more interesting if there's something new greeting you every few days or weeks. They're also great when trying to mark a special occasion or a special time of the year.
"Since 1998, when the first doodle was releas... |
20 December 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Google has debuted a new site aimed at students or prospective students. The idea is to give them pointers on what and how Google products can help them in school.
"Are you applying to college, in the midst of your college years or getting ready for graduation? Wherever you are in your academic journey, Google has t... |
14 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Google has always been criticized for its help support or lack thereof. When Google was a small company with few products and even fewer resources, it couldn't afford to offer great support to its millions of users and customers. But things are changing, Google wants to operate in the enterprise sector and it ne... |
14 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Current customers using Google Apps and thinking about making the jump to Microsoft’s Cloud can gain some insight on the migration and Office 365 in a TechNet webcast this week.
The TechNet Webcast: Migrating from Google Apps to Office 365 (Level 200) is scheduled to take place on November 15, 2011, starting ... |
11 November 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Google has just made it possible for everyone to create their own Google+ Pages. In fact, you can create more than one. Google Apps users will be glad to hear that they're included as well and they'll be allowed to set up Google+ Pages just like everyone else.This may not seem like a big deal, but until abo... |
8 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Google is said to be close to signing a deal with General Motors to provide the large automaker with Google Apps. If completed, the deal would be a huge win for Google which has been building up its enterprise offerings and market share.
No one is confirming anything on the record, but the Wall Street Journal says... |
5 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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Google has finally fulfilled one of the most requested features around Google+, the ability for Google Apps users to sign up. This will enable businesses and schools to enable their users to create Google+ profiles.While Google+ may not seem like a particularly business-oriented product, social networking has as much... |
28 October 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Google has been working hard to make its Google Apps suite a viable alternative for businesses wanting to ditch their legacy software and platforms.
Google's cloud service promises to be cheaper and more stable than traditional on-site products.
One of Google's biggest success stories with Apps has been t... |
21 October 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Google has a lot of hopes for Google+ and it seems to be going alright so far. It's got 40 million registered users, though no one knows how many of them are active, and it keeps on growing.
It's growing so fast, in fact, that it caught Google off-guard, Google+ chief Vic Gundotra said at the Web 2.0 Summi... |
20 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Google has made it a bit easier for Google Apps administrators to manage the apps their users see, especially if they have third-party apps from the Marketplace installed.
There is now a central spot for enabling or disabling any app for users or groups. Admins can now, literally, turn apps On and Off from the sam... |
11 October 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Google has won the right to compete with Microsoft for a lucrative government contract worth almost $50 million, 36.7 million Euros, to the winner. The company will go head-to-head with Microsoft, pitting its cloud-based office and collaboration suite Google Apps against Microsoft's products.Initially, the US In... |
29 September 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Google Docs offers a solid set of apps for those that need something to get the job done, but the number of features built into each one has never been their strength. That said, Google is working on adding more features and functionality, to appeal to more use cases.Google Apps' and by extension Google Docs... |
2 September 2011
11:12 GMT |
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WordPress is not the only blogging platform that is dropping support for legacy browsers. Blogger has announced that it's following the company line and will only support the last two versions of a browser, from now on.
The change will be effective starting August 1st at which time, Firefox 3.5, Internet Expl... |
15 July 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Google+ is still in private beta and there are still rough edges and missing features. But the company has not made it any secret that Google+ is a huge undertaking that aims to fully transform Google and all of its products.
This, of course, means Google Apps too. Enabling Google+ for Apps users opens up a lot o... |
6 July 2011
05:02 GMT |
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Google has started the biggest redesign in its history, most if not all of its products will get a new coat of paint, following several universal design elements.
The search engine is almost ready, many people are seeing the new version, Maps has the new design already and some of the Google Apps are starting to ... |
1 July 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Last week, Google introduced a new option for Google Sites users which enabled them to serve a mobile-optimized version to users visiting from smartphones. Now Google is taking it one step further with five mobile templates to choose from and the possibility of creating your own with no coding skills requirement.
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30 June 2011
08:01 GMT |
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On the footsteps of Blogger, Google is launching an option to enable Sites users to optimize their websites for smartphones. Whenever a visitor running iOS or Android lands on the site, an custom version is served to make it easier to use on the small screens of the devices."As the dramatic growth of the mobile web c... |
24 June 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Google has been peddling its Apps suite to enterprises and schools, but an equally attractive target has been the government and local administrations. Google even developed a special Apps version for government use, hoping to get the big administrative infrastructure to switch to the cloud. Now, the first signs of i... |
22 June 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Google is expanding the functionality of its Apps Script tool with a GUI Builder, a web app which enables users and developers to create the graphical interfaces of other web apps.The new tool is designed to make it easy to build a professional looking application without needing vast coding experience."One of the mo... |
22 June 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Google is a big supporter of OAuth, the authorization protocol which enables web applications and services to work together and access data without the need to reveal user names and passwords to third-parties. Google has been adding OAuth support to its APIs and has now rolled out a new set of Provisioning APIs for G... |
14 June 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Google is introducing a couple of new features and improvements for Google Calendar, which further improve the product, especially for power users. One change that may seem insignificant, but can make a big difference for those with a lot of meetings. Another change will affect those printing out their calendars, the... |
2 June 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Google is making another move in pushing people to start using up to date versions of their browsers. Running a recent, preferably the latest version of a browser is a good idea for both performance and security reasons. Google will be dropping support for older browsers in Google Apps, starting with Firefox 3.5, IE7... |
2 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Day 2 of the 2011 Google I/O conference is all about Chrome and Chrome OS. There should be plenty of announcements coming in just a few hours and a fresh new rumor suggests that one of them will be Chrome netbooks for $20 per month for students. Google has always said that, when it comes to Chrome OS, the device itse... |
11 May 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Google believes in small updates and tweaks rather than big product launches. This way, its apps and services get better constantly, though it's also harder to make big a splash. Yet another example of this is the new support for color codes for events in Google Calendar. It's a small update and an obvious ... |
10 May 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Google has rolled out a few very interesting features which should prove quite a boon to Docs users. The Google Documents List API has been expanded enabling third-party applications to upload any file to any Google account.In practice, this means that you'll be able to back up files from your computer in Google... |
3 May 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Last year, Google started enabling Google Apps users to access regular services and products from the company using their Apps accounts. This merger of the consumer and business Google products led to a great expansion of the number of services available to Apps administrators. Google is showcasing the possibilities ... |
29 April 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Google is adding a useful new feature to its spreadsheets editor in Google Docs, the ability to add images to a table. Users have been able to insert images in documents for years, but they had no such possibility in spreadsheets, until now.Granted, the need for adding images to a spreadsheet is significantly smaller... |
28 April 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Since launch, Google's Web Fonts repository has proven quite popular and more free and open fonts have been uploaded for anyone to use. At the same time, websites and Google itself are making use of the available fonts to spruce up web typography. Now it's enabling Google Sites users to tap into the reposit... |
28 April 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Google is making some changes to its licenses for Google Apps affecting mainly small companies and organizations. There is some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that there is now a limit of only 10 users for the free version of Google Apps, compared to 50 up to this point, the good news is that there is a... |
27 April 2011
09:31 GMT |
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For the past few days, Microsoft and Google have been engaged in a war of words, to complement the one in the court. It stems from Google's displeasure at the allegedly 'fixed' bid for a cloud platform to power US government services.Microsoft won that contract and Google later sued saying that its pro... |
15 April 2011
12:15 GMT |
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Google is stepping up its support for nonprofits with a new Google for Nonprofits website and program which aims to make it easier for organizations to get access to the tools, services and grants Google offers.The company has always had special offers and support programs for nonprofits, but it has now opened a one-... |
17 March 2011
11:26 GMT |
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Google is very much interested in the enterprise market and it's making some progress with Google Apps. While some aspects offer great advantages, there are still plenty of places where Google is behind traditional enterprise market players.But it's slowly getting closer, one of the latest advances is a new... |
15 March 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Google has announced a change in policy for App accounts requiring new passwords to have a minimum of eight characters. The new policy should improve account security for new users and those that opt to change their passwords, though the increase from six to eight characters only provides better protection in a small... |
2 March 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Google Apps users don't usually have to worry about storage space. Depending on the type of account they have, it should be enough for most tasks, unless they're using the free tier, and it's the administrator's job to take care of things like that. But now Google is giving regular users the optio... |
2 March 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Google has now rolled out the revamped Contacts interface in Gmail for all Google Apps users. The new interface had been live for several months for regular users. There are also several additions more suited for professional environments, which is what Apps was built for. "It’s important to be able to quickly ... |
1 March 2011
10:07 GMT |
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Google has been going after Microsoft's lucrative enterprise customers for quite a while now. Google Apps can be a good alternative to a number of Microsoft products in many cases and it adds the big advantages of the cloud platform. Still, there are plenty of reasons why Office or stand-alone software in gene... |
24 February 2011
13:34 GMT |
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Google has been making strides in the enterprise market, but it's still a very small player. One way of growing the business is by having people 'on the ground,' so to speak, to promote and sell Google Apps to businesses which may not have heard of the suite or which don't have the personnel to ma... |
24 February 2011
06:30 GMT |
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The Zimbra 7 cloud collaboration suite has been released. All major components of the platform have been made available at the same time which will be the norm moving forward. VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server, as well as the Zimbra Collaboration Appliance and Zimbra Desktop, have all been updated along with the Zim... |
8 February 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Google Docs has gotten a thorough revamp. The documents list has received several new features and improvements and is much better suited for handling a larger variety and a bigger number of files, not just native documents. There is also a new preview pane and an embedded photo viewer along with a better video playe... |
2 February 2011
01:11 GMT |
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Google prides itself on the stability of its products, but doesn't make any promises for the ones it offers for free. Downtime does happen and people have to deal with it. On the enterprise front, though, this doesn't fly, since it's a paid service, Google offers customers affected by outages compensat... |
15 January 2011
02:18 GMT |
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Google is ramping up its anti-spam efforts by offering customers of its Google Apps cloud-service the possibility of signing their outgoing emails via DKIM.DKIM, or DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication method in which an email is associated with a domain name in order to ensure its origin.This valid... |
6 January 2011
12:49 GMT |
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Google has had a big focus on educational institutions with its Apps suite and it is now extending that with the future introduction of an education-focused app market. The idea is to enable third-party software makers to sell their applications and services via a common marketplace. Google will then keep a portion o... |
28 December 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Google was built by giving stuff away and making money from the advertising, but the company has been increasingly interested in the enterprise market recently. The latest move is a sly one, Google is now offering a cloud back-up system for Microsoft Exchange based on Gmail and other Google products. Essentially... |
10 December 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Google is always testing new products and features, many times in the wild, so it doesn't take long for them to surface even if the company doesn't comment on tests. One product that Google is working on, pushed by mistake too early to some users, is Cloud Picker. The name is suggestive enough but, while it... |
3 December 2010
11:43 GMT |
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True to Google's regular process, Google Calendar has now gotten a simple new feature, but one that brings it closer to a full-fledged solution, one to compete with existing, desktop applications. The online calendar now supports optional attendees making it easier, especially for business meetings, to known whi... |
29 November 2010
13:27 GMT |
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Google is now enabling all Apps users to access many of the company's existing products aimed at regular users. This means that people with a Google Apps account from their school or workplace will get access to services such as Picasa, YouTube, Blogger or AdWords, providing their administrators approve. Google ... |
19 November 2010
07:00 GMT |
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For users that recently managed to grab a Windows Phone 7 device and are keen to discover what goodies its OS has to offer, here are a few tips to get them started. The Voice Control feature of any Windows Phone 7 smartphone can be activated by pressing and holding the Windows key at the bottom of the ... |
4 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Google's mobile operating system, Android, is enjoying increasing popularity among mobile phone users around the world, with a number of more than 200,000 devices being activated each and every day, the the Internet giant decided it was high time to deliver some more features to users. The company came up with ... |
29 October 2010
06:21 GMT |
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Google has scored a big victory for its Google Apps suite getting the New York state to bring the communication and collaboration suite to its K12 students. It's the largest US state to date to do so and represents a growing trend among educational institutions to move to the cloud. "New York state is making c... |
5 October 2010
12:25 GMT |
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