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After last week being a bit light on in Google news, this week there has been heaps of good news from the Google camp. On the Cloud Assist front we have been busy as always especially with the website audits. We have seen a great interest in these, so if you haven’t requested one make sure you do! Anyways on with the news.

Google Apps gets Two Factor Authentication – Cloud Assist
Big news out this week is that Google Apps now has Two Factor Authentication! This is really great news for those security conscious organisations who require the next level in security. If you’re an existing Google Apps user who thinks they need it, just contact your current administrator and they can enable it for you. Overall I think this is a really great step forward for Google Apps and for more information about it make sure you read the entry over at the Google Enterprise Blog.

Three million businesses have gone Google: celebrating growth, innovation and security – Google
This week saw the three millionth business choose to use Google Apps as their platform of choice for their mail and collaboration and I don’t see this slowing down any time soon. It is quite interesting though how many people we talk to who are hesitant to the idea, but why? Before you make the decision to go one way or the other, get educated and see why so many organisations have made the jump to Google Apps. Talk to us now!

5 Tablet Offerings Explored, An Infographic – HotHardware
With Christmas just around the corner, one item that will be hot on everyones wish list is going to be the Tablet. So you want an iPad right? Well before you go shopping this Christmas research your options as there will be a number of tablets available and there may be one that suits your needs a little better than the iPad. The HotHardware article is a great visual representation of what to expect from each device. Make sure you check it out.

Fact of the Week: It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Well that’s it for another week. As always have a great week from everyone at Cloud Assist!

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

And there you have it, almost another week down, but before we wrap the week up we better do our Weekly Industry update. It has been a very busy week for us with staff travelling all over Australia as Google Apps and Search continues to be the hot topic! Let’s get started with the update.

The Feds Australia Goes Live – Cloud Assist
You may have seen this on the blog already, but I thought it would be worth throwing in this weeks update as well. The Feds Australia website designed by Cloud Assist went live last Friday and the feedback so far has been nothing but positive. The purpose of the project was to expand on their existing one page website and for that they chose our brochure website package. This package met all the customers requirements and has provided the business with a platform they can use to expand along side their business growth. Make sure you check out their website at thefedsaustralia.com.au.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9: What’s the fuss all about? – Digital Trends
Just when it seems the browser war may be cooling down it looks like it’s about to heat up again. Internet Explorer 9 will soon been released by Microsoft and it seems it has some new features that will put it back in the ring swinging with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. One of the neat features that I like is that it will utilise your computers GPU to help render pages faster. For those who are interested in the browser war make sure you give the article a read.

Here Comes the New Twitter.com – Mashable
I can’t say I am big user of Twitter as I just don’t have the need, yet… In saying that, I am always looking out to see what updates are being made, and this week as the company plans to integrate multimedia into the stream, Twitter announced a new version of the web client. Further to that, I believe the long term goal here is to take the added features of the third party clients and bring them back to the web client. For more about the upcoming changes make sure you read the article.

Android Will be Number 2 Platform Before 2011, Challenge Symbian by 2014 – intomobile
We’re a little lite in Google announcements this week, so I thought I would cover off something I saw in the market during the week. When I bought my Samsung Galaxy S, I was a little worried by the Android OS but I had read sales were taking off in the US so that helped me in the decision to buy the phone. This week, Gartner released a study that shows Android will be the second largest platform by 2011 and no, iOS (iPhone’s platform) won’t be first. So what does this mean? Well, for me I see companies jumping on the iPhone/iPad application band wagon. If that’s you, you may want to stop for a second and think about where the mobile market is heading and if iPhone/iPad is correct or would an Android app be a better fit, especially with the Android iPad killers hitting the market around Christmas. If you need more information around Android Apps make sure you get in touch with us – cloudassist.com.au

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

Businesses and schools are moving to Google Apps in droves, and they’re able to switch more seamlessly with the help of tools to move old email, contacts and calendar data from legacy solutions to Google’s cloud. We have administrator-managed migration utilities for Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus Notes®, and today we’re making it a lot easier for many end-users to move their old data themselves if their administrators aren’t planning server-side data migrations.

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook® is a new end-user tool that moves email, calendar and contact data from Outlook® profiles, PST files and Exchange accounts to Google Apps. With this new tool, migrations are:

source:http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-google-apps-migration-for.html

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