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Google adds global address list to Apps suite
News The enhancements to the Premier Edition of Google Apps were announced on Wednesday. Software engineer Valerie Blechar wrote on the Google Enterprise blog that the user-profiles API would, when combined with the shared-contacts API that Google...
[July 3, 2009, 12:45]
Google Apps for Your Domain review
Reviews Google Apps for Your Domain is a suite of free hosted services for small businesses, at www.google.com/a. Google's suite offers this firm small-business versions of the communications apps Gmail, Chat and Calendar.
[August 29, 2006, 9:15]
Google launches Apps for enterprise teams
News This prompted Google to create the Google Apps suite in a free Standard Edition and a paid-for Premier Edition. Google Apps Team Edition is a free service that lets people within the same email domain collaborate easily with Google Apps, a package...
[February 7, 2008, 10:07]
Google Apps come out of beta
News Google has taken the beta tag off its Apps productivity suite, in a bid to increase enterprise adoption of tools including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Rajen Sheth, the senior product manager for Google Apps, said in a blog...
[July 8, 2009, 12:25]
Google taps Capgemini to challenge Microsoft Office
News Google Apps — which includes web-based Gmail, a calendar, and document editor — can fill a role in large corporations even though the product suite is used mainly by individuals and small businesses, according to Capgemini executives.
[September 10, 2007, 8:29]
Microsoft puts business apps in UK cloud
News Microsoft's archrival Google's hosted productivity suite, Google Apps, has already notched up 10 million users across one million business, including to both the Guardian Media Group and The Telegraph Media Group.
[March 2, 2009, 16:13]
Google rolls out range of online security apps
News The online security applications launched on Tuesday are not meant to supplant Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE), the company's collaborative online business applications offering, as GAPE already has most of the Postini security functionalities...
[February 5, 2008, 7:49]
Microsoft: Office 14 beta coming soon
News That will certainly be true of the suite this time and of the web apps. Although the company had some high-profile customers consider a move to Google Apps, Capossela said that the pressure has waned to some extent.
[March 5, 2009, 7:45]
Google Apps users to get OpenID authentication
Blog Google is about to announce OpenID log-in functionality for enterprise users of its Apps productivity suite. The search giant has already adopted the authentication standard - whereby a single log-in can be used to access a variety of sites - to a...
[July 10, 2009, 17:24]
Google Goes Down a New Channel
White Papers The vendor Microsoft now sees as its chief nemesis - Google - started to target the user productivity market in 2007 with the release of its cloud-based office suite - Google Apps - which includes Google Docs, Gmail and so on.
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Cloud delivers silver lining for UK universities
News The University of Westminster (UoW) and the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have both adopted the Google Apps Education Edition — a free suite of online apps from the search giant.
[March 2, 2009, 16:47]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment This is not GREAT, but this is OK, specially if they can integrate some version of Google Gears, enabling mobile AJAX apps to run offline. Millions of Java developers will be able to write Android apps quickly, as no new language and new IDEs will...
[November 6, 2007, 7:46]
Google adds batch-export feature to Docs
News Microsoft's answer to Google Docs, Office Web Apps, is currently only available as a technical preview to a limited group of testers. Google Docs now has a batch-export facility, after the software maker added a 'Convert, Zip and Download' feature...
[October 26, 2009, 14:39]
Google maps out plan for mobile success
News Chang said Google prefers to avoid developing apps that require elements to be downloaded to the device, as this makes the user experience slower and less attractive. She added that, although Android is Google's platform, the mobile apps team sees...
[May 14, 2008, 8:40]
NetSuite, Zoho see rising uptake of hosted apps
News Google Apps is Google's business-focused app suite; Vegesna did not consider individual or business use of Google Docs, which offers some of the same services. He said he also believes that Zoho is tracking at about one-third of Google Apps adoption.
[August 6, 2008, 8:37]
Google Gears races towards Microsoft
News Jeff Huber, vice president of engineering at Google, dismissed the idea that the lack of offline capability had hindered adoption of Google Apps, which includes web-based calendar, email, chat, word-processing and spreadsheet software.
[June 1, 2007, 8:59]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews If you want access to productivity tools from anywhere with an internet connection, you can pick from online services including Google Docs & Spreadsheets — now with Presentations too — and its business-focused sibling, Google Apps Premier Edition...
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
Browser-based OpenOffice.org released
News Microsoft is itself gearing up to enter the online services market, but the most notable player in that field is currently Google, with its Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) suite. The free office tools suite OpenOffice.org has gone online for the...
[December 18, 2007, 11:30]
The groupware Lotus eater
Leader Google Apps for Your Domain is a proof-of-concept package that adds some light customisation to a useful suite of free services — but it's not something you can take to the board when the Microsoft Exchange licence falls due.
[January 23, 2007, 16:34]
Thinking outside the Office box
Leader And so chief information officers like the one we spoke to are beginning to ask employees whether they really need a full office suite upgrade, or whether they can in fact work with online apps such as those provided by Google.
[March 14, 2007, 16:32]
