Thursday 27 February 2014

Take a look at our brand spanking new web site.

Take a look at our brand spanking new web site.



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Tuesday 25 February 2014

Smart Provisioning with Dynamic Google Groups.

Another great new feature in CloudPages - Smart provisioning of Groups and Circles.



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Smart Provisioning with Dynamic Google Groups.









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Mobile updates and a new API for using Google+ at work

Mobile updates and a new API for using Google+ at work



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Mobile updates and a new API for using Google+ at work





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This is worth reading if your an iPhone user who fears change but secretly wants to try something better...

This is worth reading if your an iPhone user who fears change but secretly wants to try something better.








Size matters: how I went from an iPhone to a really big Android phone

Late on the night of September 9th, 2012, I was sitting at my kitchen table, going over notes for a piece I was writing about video game arcades. The next morning at 6AM I was bound for an Amtrak...





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Unified and actionable notifications in chrome bring the android experience to the desktop.

Unified and actionable notifications in chrome bring the android experience to the desktop.








Richer notifications coming to Chrome

When you’re surfing the web, you can get so immersed that you might not realize you’re late for a meeting or that someone messaged you in another chat window. A couple years ago, we created a way for notifications to appear o...





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See how our new CloudPages product gives you powerful user search capability across your entire organisation...

See how our new CloudPages product gives you powerful user search capability across your entire organisation. Easily find people by name, location, department, skills etc.



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Collaboration gets even more social. I wonder if the group chat will turn into babel too some day soon...

Collaboration gets even more social. I wonder if the group chat will turn into babel too some day soon.








Bringing people together in Drive

The official place for news and updates about Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more





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Google Now and Keep play nicely

Google Now and Keep play nicely



Try this: launch Google Now, then click the microphone or say "Google" to activate voice input. Then say "Note to self" followed by "whatever you want to remember". This used to send you an email note, but now you get the option to save it as a note in Keep instead. Handy!



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Hmm. Glad I don't rely on Microsoft's 'cloud'.

Hmm. Glad I don't rely on Microsoft's 'cloud'.








Outlook.com appears to be down, some users reporting an Office 365 service outage as well (update)

Well, happy Friday to you too, Microsoft. It appears that the company is wrapping up the week with an outage: Outlook.com appears to be down, and many





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Restrict Google Apps Admins to specific Org Units - I know this will make a lot of customers happy.

Restrict Google Apps Admins to specific Org Units - I know this will make a lot of customers happy.



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Restrict Admin Privileges to Organizational Units

Google Apps super admins now have the ability to designate users as admins for specific organizational units. Users in a domain can be arranged in organizational units to better control the services a...





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Interesting. I'm sure Apple will argue that a clock face is a standard design so they're not really ...

Interesting. I'm sure Apple will argue that a clock face is a standard design so they're not really copying anything. But isn't a smartphone basically a rectangle with a screen and icons yet somehow any phone that's not an iPhone is infringing their design.



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Swiss railway says it's 'proud' Apple is using its iconic clock design, still wants to get paid

If you thought the new iPad clock app in iOS 6 looked a little familiar, you're not alone. The design is a near-exact





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Hopefully this will spark Google into action to open Google Play Music in the UK. Sure it's been possible...

Hopefully this will spark Google into action to open Google Play Music in the UK. Sure it's been possible to get it working through the devious use of international proxies but wouldn't it be nice to have it legitimately.








Amazon brings Cloud Player music service to the UK: choice of free or premium tiers from £6 per year

Brits who've been straining for a reason to care about Amazon's budding Cloud Player service can probably relax. It's live in the UK





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Google #io2012 Offline editing of Google text documents. Just what we've been waiting for. But the bonus...

Google #io2012 Offline editing of Google text documents. Just what we've been waiting for. But the bonus is Google Drive for iOS. That's on top of Chrome for iOS. Maybe my iPad can stay after all. It's becoming more useful thanks to Google.





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Google Drive is official at last

Google Drive is official at last



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Official Google Enterprise Blog: Introducing Google Drive, the newest member of Google Apps

Posted by Scott Johnston, Product Manager Today, we're introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your work. Whether you're drawing up floor pla...





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Staying at a pub with rooms. Best of both worlds!

Staying at a pub with rooms. Best of both worlds!





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Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps



Add e-Discovery to your Google Apps environment.



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Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

Posted by Jack Halprin, Head of eDiscovery, Google Today we're announcing the availability of Google Apps Vault (Vault) for Google Apps for Business customers. Vault is an easy-to-use and cost-eff...





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Learn why a message ended up in Spam

With the recent inclusion of content management features from Postini directly into Google Apps you may find mail that would have previously been sent to a separate Postini Quarantine has been dropping into your GMail Spam label instead. Now there's a way to easily identify why the mail was sent to spam by reviewing the brief explanation at the top of the message. This help article covers some of the explanations you might see.



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Learn why a message ended up in Spam

We've always made it our mission to keep unwanted messages out of your inbox. And while we don't think you should ever need to look in Spam, we know some of you are curious about how messages end up there. Whether you marked mail from that sender as spam in the past, or we think the message might be unsafe, or for some other reason, you can find out by dusting off that Spam folder and opening up any message.



Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder

Posted by Ela Czajka, Software Engineer Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. And while we think you should never have to look in your spam f...





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Monday 24 February 2014

Pretty good pub/restaurant with accommodation. Rooms are functional and comfy enough.

Pretty good pub/restaurant with accommodation. Rooms are functional and comfy enough.





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Friday 14 February 2014

Some great updates to hangouts and photos from the G+ folks.

Some great updates to hangouts and photos from the G+ folks.



Google+ Hangouts and Photos: save some time, share your story http://stu.gs/1cpqS5A








Google+ Hangouts and Photos: save some time, share your story

We could all use more time for ourselves, and less time figuring out technology. So today's improvements to Google+ Hangouts and Photos aim to take a lot of the work out of messaging, video calling and photo editing. Hangouts...





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Lost in Gatwick shopping centre. I'm sure there's an airport in here somewhere.

Lost in Gatwick shopping centre. I'm sure there's an airport in here somewhere.





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Wednesday 12 February 2014

Hangouts are changing the way businesses communicate, and today we’re rolling out a clean look that's...

Hangouts go full screen.



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Hangouts are changing the way businesses communicate, and today we’re rolling out a clean look that's now full screen across mobile and desktop, and it fixes and enhances webcam lighting automatically.



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Tuesday 11 February 2014

This is way too cool!

Beat shoulder surfers with this great idea.



Armin Broubakarian originally shared:

This is way too cool!









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IMO beats Google Hangouts to the punch with WebRTC for video calls with no plugins.

IMO beats Google Hangouts to the punch with WebRTC for video calls with no plugins.



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Messaging service Imo becomes an early adopter of WebRTC as it adds plugin-free video calls

Imo has become the first consumer messaging service to implement the WebRTC standard for its cross-platform video calls. WebRTC has reached a relatively stable state in Chrome, Firefox ...





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Thursday 6 February 2014

Meeting rooms have gone Google.

Meeting rooms have gone Google.



Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings http://stu.gs/1c839Bk








Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings





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Tuesday 4 February 2014

Powerful ChromeOS devices starting to emerge.

Powerful ChromeOS devices starting to emerge.



ASUS bringing new Chromeboxes in March, priced from $179 http://stu.gs/1cRqcoa








ASUS bringing new Chromeboxes in March, priced from $179

ChromeOS in box form, and the entry-level models carry a great price ASUS has taken the wraps off their new Chromebox line, and are hoping the perfect form-factor and the right price will get people interested. They are releasing three different models, each with a different CPU. The entry level model will come with a capable Intel Celeron 2955U CPU, and should serve the casual user....





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This is great news but the device isn't officially available on the UK yet so there's not much incentive...

This is great news but the device isn't officially available on the UK yet so there's not much incentive for things like BBC iplayer to start incorporating chromecasting which is a shame because it's such a great device.



Chromecast is now open to developers http://stu.gs/1kJv7t2








Chromecast is now open to developers





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