Posts Tagged ‘Google Apps’

March 15th, 2010
WrapUp: HTML5 vs. Flash Performance, A Web-Centric Music Manager, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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May 22nd, 2008
Google Sites Opens Its Doors to Everybody

Back in February we saw Jotspot resurface as Google Sites, a service for creating group websites. After reviewing it, it looked like a great way for people to easily create a website that had a customizable look and feel. The only problem at its launch was that it was available only to those with a Google Apps account. As of late yesterday, Google Sites is now open to everybody.

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April 7th, 2008
Google Email Uploader Launches for Google Apps

Google Apps users who have years (or just a few months worth) of emails stored in Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird, now have a very simple way to upload those messages to a Google Apps mailbox (Gmail). Google just launched an open source desktop utility called Google Email Uploader that gets the job done.

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February 28th, 2008
Jotspot Resurfaces as Google Sites

Shortly after Google acquired YouTube back in 2006, they acquired Jotspot. Jotspot offered their users a place where they could create a structured Wiki that was easily updatable. Once they were acquired, we knew eventually Google would launch something that used Jotspot's technology.

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September 17th, 2007
Yahoo to Acquire Zimbra for 350 Million

All along I had been wondering why Yahoo hadn't acquired Zoho (Online Office Suite) yet. In fact, back in July I asked this very question and I suggested that Yahoo seemed like a likely buyer because Microsoft has no need for them, and Google has their own Office Suite. Now I know that Yahoo had no need for Zoho - they were going after Zimbra, an Online Open Source Office Suite.

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September 5th, 2007
GDrive Coming to Google Apps?

Much like the Google Phone, the rumors of a Google file backup/storage service called GDrive have been around for a while now (here and here).  Originally it was thought to be just a service for Google employees to store and share files, but now we have further indication that it might be released to the public.

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August 30th, 2007
Google Docs Data Belongs to Google? Not Quite…

People around the web are enraged over a statement found in the terms and conditions for Google Docs & Spreadsheets. At first glance, they have a right to be upset, however by reading the terms and conditions in its entirety and a little explanation, no one has anything to be upset about.

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August 23rd, 2007
Why Google Apps Falls Short

Most of us know that Google Docs and Spreadsheets which comes with Google Apps, while it has its perks, is really no comparison to the functionality offered with Microsoft’s Office.  A recent report talks about this and the fact that “Google Apps is useful in a limited set of circumstances” which could ultimately lead to disappointment among enterprises and large c [...]

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August 9th, 2007
CyberNotes: How to Backup Gmail

There have been plenty of occasions where I have been left wondering if I had lost everything in my Gmail account. If you don’t know about any of those situations that I’m talking about, just view all of the past occurrences that we have written about. People have lost every email in their account numerous times, and how do you know that you’re not going to be next?

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July 31st, 2007
Google Docs Privacy Concerns

A lot of people are always skeptical about storing information on the Internet because of privacy concerns, and that is perfectly understandable. But we’re constantly being told that our data is safe like with this statement in the Google Docs help section:

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July 18th, 2007
Coming Soon: YouTube “Corporate” Edition

When I think of YouTube, I certainly don’t picture it in the corporate scene, however, that’s where it’s heading. Google is transforming YouTube into a new “corporate” version that will be available to the thousands of businesses currently using Google Apps.

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July 9th, 2007
With Google Apps in Mind, Google Acquires Postini

Google had Google Apps (among other things) in mind when they went after Postini to acquire them. The acquisition for Postini, a communications security and compliance company was announced today for $625 million.

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June 25th, 2007
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Preparing New Look

Today Google announced a whole list of new features for Google Apps which is used by both small and large businesses alike.  Out of the list, one of them stood out more than the others.

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June 19th, 2007
Google Docs vs. Zoho…Who comes out on Top?

ReadWriteWeb has put together a quick comparison of five different online office suites to see how they stack up to each other, and so I thought that I would give my take on Zoho vs. Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Google and Zoho have both been leaders in the online office suite arena, and each are great for different reasons.

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June 8th, 2007
Google Docs Opening Up Sharing Options

The new fad these days is collaboration via video conferencing, instant messengers, or just by sharing files over the Internet. Google Docs has been known to embrace that by offering a collaboration feature on both their document or spreadsheet service, where sharing the information is as simple as entering in the user’s email address.

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May 18th, 2007
Google Apps Partner Edition for ISPs and Portals

Google has just added an addition to their Google Apps Service.  It’s called Google Apps Partner Edition, and it was designed specifically for ISPs and portals so that they can offer their customers everything that Google Apps has to offer like branded Gmail.

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May 16th, 2007
Google’s Presentation Application Peeks Out

It was just about a month ago that Google announced that they were indeed working on some sort of presentation system for Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and the first signs have started to peak out. Tony Ruscoe pointed out a link that appears on PowerPoint files when he receives them in his email, and the link offers the option to view the presentation as a slideshow:

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February 6th, 2007
Google Apps to start Charging for Services

Google Apps for domains in Beta has provided thousands of small businesses and organizations a way to offload their email systems while keeping their own email addresses, as well as other ways to stay connected and communicate. The benefits of web-based applications continue to increase as these web services become more capable and reliable each year.

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