Google adopts single sign-on for more desktop, mobile apps
Google Apps administrators now can use single sign on for a wider set of Web and mobile apps
Google Apps administrators now can use single sign on for a wider set of Web and mobile apps
Google has released its Apps Referral Program in Australia.
Google's recent "Work the Way You Live" whitepaper lays out the company's vision for workplace productivity and collaboration in the modern digital age. The company asks in the paper, "Why shouldn't work happen with the same speed and collaboration we enjoy in our private lives?" Today's consumers are constantly connected, checking their mobile phones 150 times per day on average and openly sharing everything on social media. They expect their employers to empower them with the same consumer-friendly technologies they use outside the office. Google believes five basic principles separate the businesses that successfully deliver on this opportunity and those that don't.
Google Apps is set to become a 'critical' component of IT service provider Kiandra IT's business after it joined the internet search giant's reseller program.
In addition to a famously wide array of perks, Google employees have been given a fairly wide berth to create Easter Eggs and other (occasionally needlessly intricate) pranks for their suite of Web tools. And in that proud tradition of digital Tom Foolery, comes this very cool Doctor Who-themed Easter Egg quietly hiding in Google Maps.
Google Maps is rumored to get a UI overhaul next week. According to the Google Operating System blog (an unofficial Google blog), the new interface will nix the sidebar and overlay all the information on top of a full page screen.
2012 showed that the “consumerisation of IT” trend is no longer just changing the workplace culture of start-ups and small businesses.
Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.
All of Google's service offerings went offline in some parts of the world during an unusual half-hour outage that mainly affected users in Asia, according to content delivery network provider CloudFlare.
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to halt efforts to bring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) into the Google Apps services used by 17,000 other Los Angeles employees.
Seven ISVs have formed a consortium to integrate their Google Apps add-on products and offer discounted bundles, outside of Google's control.
US-based Google Apps service provider, Cloud Sherpas, has acquired Brisbane-based Google Apps partner, Devnet, for an undisclosed sum.
Google Apps, used on a variety of devices like mobile phones and tablets, allows offline use of Google Calendar, Docs and Gmail.
Mobile phone retailer uses Google’s gDocScan for cloud document management
There are still plenty of businesses that prefer to host data and applications internally rather than in the cloud but they are as silly as people that keep their money under a mattress instead of in a bank, according to Google|Google distributors.