Archive for the ‘Google Apps’ Category

Google’s Gmail email service was down again on Thursday for about 2 hours. This has drawn the attention and anger of lot of people across the world. Though only a 'small subset of users' were unable to access their email accounts Thursday (according to Google) but this outage raised many questions as it followed one earlier ... Full story

Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) is the first government ministry in Asia to go for Google Apps. Singapore's Ministry of Education and 30,000 teachers will go Google by 2010 with over 350 schools in the country using Google Apps by the end of this year. Google Apps Edu ... Full story

Socialwok is the Social App for Google Apps. If you are using Google Apps on your domain, you can share and collaborate with other users through a new service called Socialwok. Socialwok (www.Socialwok.com) enables sharing calendars, docs, spreadsheets and presentations amongst accounts, and adding media from other sites like YouTube and SlideShare. ... Full story

Many people ask me why is Google Apps more secure than inhouse exchange? I am amazed to see this concern only when they evaluate Google Apps. This becomes a non issue if their employees access the email over internet. Even though the servers are within comapny - the access is over internet. Normally I reply with a ... Full story

If you want to implement Public Folders in Google Apps - there is no direct one to one functionality in Google Apps which can be mapped to Exchange functionality of public folders. Public folders allows a group of people to access the same set of emails and documents. How that does not mean you can not ... Full story

Till now there was no good way to send an email to friends and family in Hindi (or Tamil, Telugu, Kannada & Malayalam) which is your native language. Now Gmail has launched a new feature that lets you type email in Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada & Malayalam. This features is also being extended to ... Full story

Gmail has given a new feature again - this time with Contacts in Gmail. You can now associate one email address with more than one contact in Gmail's contact manager. This feature is available to all editions - Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions. This feature is useful as in many organizations or families same email is shared by many persons. How to associate one email ... Full story

Google Apps has added two new features in Google Videos first the ability to add captions to your videos and second the ability to upload videos up to 1 GB in size (increased from the 300 MB previous limit). Ability to add captions was along pending demand as many especially in corporate and education world wanted to add captions for their audience. Users will be able ... Full story

It has been a long pending demand of organization who were asking for the tracking featured for the Gmail in Google Apps. Being in the cloud it becomes more important to know who is accessing your mailing system and how. For organizations who want to track how their employees are using emails - Google Apps has launched a new feature to integrate Gmail with Google Analytics. The ... Full story

Google has quietly put up a restrictions on numbers of users which you can use with Standard Edition (which is free). Google Apps Standard Edition is now (effective from mid January) limited up to 50 users for new registrants. The old registration howeevr will get the complete quota of registrations. It may be noted that earlier Google Apps Standard Edition (GASE) can be registerd for up to ... Full story