Google Apps status updates now in RSS feeds
Starting today you can add an RSS feed for the Apps Status Dashboard, letting you receive performance status updates for Apps products in any of the 25 languages the Dashboard supports.
Visit the Apps Status Dashboard at http://www.google.com/appsstatus and click on the RSS icon at the bottom right to get the feed in the same language you see when using the Dashboard.
For additional information, visit the original Blog post at the Google Enterprise Blog: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-status-updates-now-in-your.html
Google Apps is out of Beta
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta.
For additional information, visit the Official Google Blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html
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Welcome to the newest Google Apps product called Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook
One of the things we have noticed when it comes to email is people like choice. When they choose to make the jump to Google Apps from their old mail server for all the great apps and mobile support, some still want to keep inside the familiar environment they are accustomed to in order to check mail. Customers of Google Apps for domains who want to use Microsoft Outlook to manage their email can now do this much easier than before. There are many products on the market that attempt to synchronize with Outlook and now Google has an official release called Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. Using a MAPI client instead of IMAP, Google Apps Sync improves the data exchange better than before. As one of the Google Apps Premier Resellers, DNAMail, a IKANO Communications Inc. company, is making this product available to their customers as part of the new product launch.
How it works:
Google Apps Sync is a simple install. Once in your Windows operating system, find Google Apps Sync in your program files and click on “Set up a Google Apps Sync User.”
Next step is to enter the email address and password for your existing Google Apps Premier account. Before installing the program, you will need to be sure you have the following:
- Google Apps Account
- Outlook 2003 SP3 (11.0.8169 or higher) or 2007 SP1 (12.0.6335 or higher).
- Windows Vista SP1 or XP SP3
After installing Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a new account is now enabled in your Outlook profile. The synchronization tool then attempts to bring in all your data from Google into Outlook including your email, contacts, and calendar items. Notes, journal entries, and tasks will not currently sync. Possibly some day since Google now has tasks enabled in Gmail.
What the sync product provides is familiarity. If you are accustomed to the Outlook interface to read mail and have not made the full jump to an all cloud approach, this tool can help.With the new tool, DNA Mail can ensure companies migrating to Google Apps Premier Edition can take care of all their employees, even the ones who want to continue to use Outlook as their main mail tool. Google Apps™ also offers collaboration applications companies can use other than email can calendaring including Google Talk™ chat and instant messaging, Google Docs™ document, spreadsheet and presentation sharing and editing, and Google Video™ for internal video sharing, and Google Sites™ intranet for knowledge sharing.
“Google Apps provides options in the email solutions marketplace,” says George Mitsopoulos, VP, and General Manager, DNA Mail. “We like Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook since it simplifies the amount of effort required by end users to use Outlook with Google Apps. The product also assists companies looking into Google for their communications. These customers want to continue to use their Outlook software and simultaneously utilize other Google Apps and mobile services.”
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Google Voice for iPhone Coming Soon. Exciting
Soon Google Voice will be available within the Google Apps Suite. It will just have a long beta period with the general set of Gmail users before going to the paid services.
What is Cloud Computing?
Google Apps - Email Archiving
“More and more we hear from businesses that managing email storage and retention is expensive and complicated. Regulations and guidelines like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure put pressure on IT organizations to ensure that email is properly retained and can be reliably located and preserved in the event of legal discovery. Coupled with the growing importance of email as a store of intellectual property, email archiving has become both legally necessary and critical to the operation of your business. Currently there is a lot of confusion in the marketplace about what kind of archiving solutions organizations should pursue, and that confusion is discouraging companies from taking this necessary step to protect their business.
To make the decision as easy as possible, we’ve simplified the pricing for our hosted email security and archiving package, Google Message Discovery.”
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AT&T Switches to from Dish to DirecTV
“There were growing signs in recent months that AT&T might choose DirecTV over Dish. In July, AT&T said it would terminate its contract with Dish but would continue to evaluate the prospects of a new partnership. In June, Dish disclosed that AT&T had requested that the satellite-TV company buy back $500 million in convertible debt held by the telecoms concern, which raised questions about the future of their alliance.
Dish shares, which ended at $24.55 on the Nasdaq Stock Market Friday in 4 p.m. trading, was down 5.9% in after-hours trading. DirecTV shares were up 2.3% to $27.15 in after-hours trading.”
