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Email Service Guide Review: Power Panel Makes Google Apps More Complete

Email Service Guide is an online guide to email service providers, including reviews, comparisons, and a database of available providers. ESG is also the premier source of news articles relating to the email field. Recently ESG published a review of LTech’s Power Panel for Google Apps. Here is an overview of the article:
While Google Apps [...]

Google Sites API and Sharepoint Move – more power under the hood

LTech is proud to announce a new product, Sharepoint Move.
From InformationWeek:
Google partner LTech has already build an application called SharePoint Move for Google Apps using the API to help liberate data, as Google might put it, from SharePoint.
Sharepoint Move is based on the Google Sites APIs.  These types of APIs are what makes the cloud viable. [...]

The Cloud: Pure “e”

“You want bleeding-edge mission-critical cross platform robust scalable architectures?  Well, duh. That’s what everybody wants.  What you want is “e.” Pure e.”

I lived through the dotcom bust – I was a fresh faced developer just starting to get my stride.   I was in the office with too many Aeron chairs in a hip loft with lots [...]

Entry Level Cloud Computing for Enterprises

As the saying goes, “No one’s been fired for buying IBM,” so let’s look at some low-risk, high-return entry points into the cloud for today’s IT manager

Do interesting things with Google Apps

What else can developers do for Google Apps? 
A open, flexible Facebook-style API for Apps would be awesome.  Imagine the community building the next generation office platform.
Right now, developers outside of Google can write Gadgets that live on the outside layout areas of GMail. Google developers have done some interesting things with Labs – I use the [...]

Two new Google Mail announcements – contacts and security

Now you can click on the [TO:] link in GMail to get your contacts. This was one of the most annoying missing features in GMail. Nice work.
Gmail supports easier access to contacts when composing a message
Google is also improving their Postini offerings with some very robust security features. http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/web.html
This is great news for Google [...]

Google Apps adoption on the rise for colleges and universities

Google Apps Education Edition helps attract solution providers
Back in May, Microsoft began offering hosted Exchange on college campuses through its Live@edu service — a move some saw as a direct response to Google’s success in the higher education market. Yahoo is also pushing to entrench its Zimbra email and collaboration desktop in higher ed. It’s [...]

Another big move by Google. Offline Docs. Word.

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html
Google has been rocking lately with updates to Google Apps.  Every week there seems to be more news coming out of Mountain View.  The latest news, hot of the press from Google’s Official Blog, is more evidence that this technology might just turn out to be as disruptive to Microsoft as anything else happening right [...]

Prediction: Google will out flank, disrupt, and split Microsoft apart

I am seeing things in the marketplace that make me believe that Google will in fact out flank Office and disrupt Microsoft to a degree that few expected just a year ago.
First of all, there is a drum beating in the media for an epic battle between Mister Softie and Google. The article this [...]

Google launches compliance and archiving solution for Google Apps

Last night Google announced the integration of email
compliance features into Google Apps Premier Edition. They also increased the Premier Edition’s 10GB inbox to 25GB.

This is big news for Google Apps. Compliance and archiving are huge concerns for corporate customers. Just ask Intel or Merrill Lynch. Full-blown compliance systems are typically [...]

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