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    • Gone Google!

    GOOGLE will this week name Flight Centre as its latest enterprise email customer in Australia, a blow to Microsoft.

    It is understood that Flight Centre’s 6000-plus employees will transition from Microsoft Outlook over to Google’s web-based Gmail system.

    The switch to Google from Microsoft may include other applications. Online travel giant Flight Centre is a heavy Microsoft Office and Exchange corporate user.

    Google Enterprise international sales vice-president Amit Singh and a senior executive from Flight Centre will make the announcement at a media briefing in Sydney on Thursday.

    The internet giant is expected to unveil another enterprise win at the event.

    Flight Centre and Google Australia representatives declined to comment when contacted.

    Nice Work Google!

    Filed under: Cloud Assist, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Innovative Innovation, Maximising Mobility, Tech News, Technology by Neil Rutherfoord

    Facebook Email a Gmail Killer? Verdict: Unlikely

    The rumour mills online are rife with talk of Facebook Email. Its seems the social networking giant plans to release an email service to its 500 million user base in the coming days. Project Titan has been a “top secret” Facebook operation, with the sole aim of competing with Google’s Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, dubbed a ‘Gmail Killer’. Its likely they have been assisted by Microsoft, as Techcrunch highlighted a couple days ago, Facebook seems to be using Exchange for its email service – See http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/facebook-mail-outlook/

    Users need to start considering their privacy as Facebook weaves their way into another aspect of your personal lives. Are we truly ready to turn our inboxes over to Facebook? Would Facebook developers get access to your messages? There is no harm in keeping your email communications outside of the social network using Gmail to do so.

    The secret email project could help explain the recent dispute between Facebook and Google over Facebook’s unwillingness to allow its users to export their friends lists and their contact info into Gmail.

    Google Apps provides a robust, industry tested, messaging platform. We can assist you to setup your organisation on Google Apps, which includes GMail Premier Edition. You could be a large, medium or small business, a family, community or scout troop, all looking for a email system under your organisation domain name (eg. family.com). You should look at Google Apps from Google before you consider Facebook Email, Gmail has been around and tested for a lot longer.

    Could they have developed a “full-fledged” email client that would truly compete with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and other advanced Web-based email services that give you desktop-style features in a browser? We’ll have to wait and see.

    Filed under: Cloud Assist, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Innovative Innovation, Managed Migration, Maximising Mobility, regular, Tech News, Technology by Neil Rutherfoord

    Weekly Industry News Update 9

    Another week, another update. On the Cloud Assist front we are very busy with Google Apps still being a very hot little item. We are currently assisting a number of company’s transition away from their existing Exchange/Outlook and Domino/Notes environments onto the platform. Anyways, on with the weekly update.

    Watch the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 burn!- intomobile

    I thought I would start the week off with something a little on the lighter side. The mob over at intomobile created a very painful video that has now gone viral that shows them grilling some of the latest and greatest smart phones on the market. I recommend not doing this one with a company smartphone.

    Google Apps Marketplace

     Just as a friendly reminder to all of you who are on the Google Apps platform, don’t forget about the Google Apps Market Place! The Google Apps Marketplace is becoming the one stop shop for extending the functionality of Google Apps. If you have ever wondered if Google Apps ‘could do that’ to solve one of your business problems, check the Marketplace and the solution may already exist!

    Gartner: Android has overtaken iPhone worldwide – electronista

     Just a quick update in the whole Android vs iOS (iPhone/iPad) war going on in the smart phone/tablet space. It looks like Android has taken the lead and is continuing to grow at a very healthy rate. I read an article during the week that was a little updated than the one above but this one references the information from Gartner and gives a good break down. Should be interesting how things stack up after christmas. While I think the iPhones/iPads still offer an experience you won’t get on the Android devices, but as Android matures that gap should close.

    Tutorials

     In the up coming weeks I plan to put sometime into writing up some tutorials on a range of different topics. They will be targeted mainly at more advanced areas like Google Scripts so that you can extend the functionality within Google Apps. But if there are any areas that you would like me to look up don’t hesitate to let us know. contact@cloudassist.com.au.

    Filed under: Cloud Assist, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Innovative Innovation, regular, Tech News, Technology by Neil Rutherfoord