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Google March 17 released a tool to help Microsoft Exchange customers move their e-mail, calendar and contact data to Google Apps, the company's latest salvo versus Microsoft in a simmering collaboration software war. The tool, free to existing customers of the paid Google Apps Premier and Google Apps Education Edition ...

Microsoft may one day counter Google Apps Marketplace with a third-party integration shop for cloud computing of its own, but if there are any such plans in the works, Microsoft won't share them as it competes in the cloud with Google, IBM, Salesforce.com and others. IDC analyst Melissa Webster says ...

When Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace March 9, it replaced the Google Solutions Marketplace as the main method of selling third-party apps with a more comprehensive offering for products that integrate with the Google Apps collaboration suite. Google Apps Marketplace, if it gains traction beyond its current 50 partner ...

Google March 9 confirmed rumors that it was expanding its third-party application efforts with the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. This online store, which launches with 50 partners March 9, lets third-party developers create and sell software that augments Google Apps collaboration applications. SlideRocket, Box.net and Skytap are just ...

Google Apps Premier and Education now offer limited security and policy controls over ActiveSync enabled mobile devices, allowing companies using Gmail services to enforce a little bit of control over devices in their field. Policy controls are extremely limited and reporting capabilities are practically nil, but things that are ...

Google Apps Premier and Education editions offer limited security and policy controls over some ActiveSync-enabled mobile devices, allowing companies that standardize on Google's mail services to enforce a little bit of control over devices in the field. The management control is limited in scope and function, but it works adequately ...

The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army released contrasting policies for social network site use. The DOD clearly ...

Beginning Feb. 4, IT administrators who license Google Apps Premier and Education Edition will be able to dictate security settings for their users' iPhone, Nokia E series and Windows Mobile smartphones right from the Google Apps control panel. Admins will be able to: remotely wipe data from devices that are ...

Google is expected to boost its existing applications store by letting third-party developers sell software that hooks into its collaboration applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 2. The store could be an extension of Google's Solutions Marketplace for third-party programs, allowing programmers to write enhanced security features or import ...

Google beat Microsoft and other suitors for the right to replace Novell's GroupWise platform in Los Angeles for 34,000 employees. L.A.'s municipal workers will use Gmail, Google Docs and other Google Apps for their messaging and collaboration needs. CSCI is supporting the three-year cloud computing contract, valued at $7.25 million. ...

UK supermarket chain Tesco has announced that it will be selling the iPhone 3G and 3GS in its stores. The move is sort of like Walmart Supercenters in the US selling the device. Google has tweaked its Apps for iPhone and Android operating systems on smartphones. The big changes are to ...

MindTouch Nov. 19 joined Google, Zoho, Microsoft and a raft of others in SAAS with MindTouch Cloud, embracing the Internet as a way to deliver collaboration applications. MindTouch Cloud lets non-technical sales representatives or business managers pull business data from CRM and ERP applications, such as Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, and Oracle, ...

LiveOffice is using its SAAS-based CloudMerge platform to integrate a number of e-mail services with its archiving. Archiving systems can be deployed for either cloud or on-site e-mail systems and can be done in short order, CEO Nick Mehta said. - Cloud services provider LiveOffice announced Nov. ...

Zoho Oct. 19 let Zoho users sign into the Zoho Projects application with their Google Apps account information and upload files from Google Docs to Zoho Projects and sync Projects meetings with Google Calendar. Users will also be able to embed info from Projects directly inside Gmail, iGoogle and the ...

As a big fan of online, Web 2.0 applications, I’ve long followed Google’s ever-increasing stable of web-based services, from Google Docs to Google Voice to Google Reader. Their large and growing collection of online applications and ...

Google's Data Liberation Front enables data portability. This is of particular importance for the Google Apps enterprise team, which is trying to make it easier for users to move from their existing platforms to Google's cloud computing applications. Google is working to let business users export entire Google Sites wikis ...

Google, which has been revving new Docs features almost every two weeks, continues to position Docs more and more as a team collaboration application and an alternative to Microsoft Office, which is focused on individual productivity. So, what's changed about Google's competitive differentiation between Docs and Office? Perhaps nothing, but ...

Going Google is a new advertising and marketing campaign the search engine giant is using to tout its messaging and collaboration enterprise applications as alternatives to on-premise software from Microsoft and IBM. Google wants more customers to adopt its cloud computing approach, particularly as Microsoft readies its Office Web suite ...

Going Google is a new advertising and marketing campaign the search engine giant is using to tout its messaging and collaboration enterprise applications as alternatives to on-premises software from Microsoft and IBM. Google wants more customers to adopt its cloud computing approach, particularly as Microsoft readies its Office Web suite ...

Cemaphore Systems, which makes software to help customers migrate their e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft to Google, or vice versa, confirms it has been acquired. Though the startup declines to say who until the announcement July 28, one strong possibility could be Sparxent, which has ties to Cemaphore. ...