PACKAGING giant Visy will migrate about 5000 users to Google Apps, the Internet giant's productivity suite, as it replaces Microsoft enterprise-wide.
Visy will join a cohort of four million businesses globally that have adopted Apps, according to Google Enterprise global vice-president Amit Singh.
Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that includes Gmail, Docs and Calendar. Last week, the company showcased how Google Apps could even be accessed in offline mode.
Google have introduced page-level permissions, a new feature that will allow you to control who can view and edit your Google Site on a page by page basis.
Using page-level permissions, you can make some pages private for certain users while keeping other pages public for everyone to see. For instance, let’s say you have a Google Site that you’ve shared with your team and your manager. You can allow your team to see one set of pages, let your manager edit another set of pages, and keep yet another set of pages private for only you.
Whether you’re organising a trip overseas or a picnic at a local park, knowing the weather forecast is a crucial part of the planning process. Google have added a weather layer on Google Maps that displays current temps and conditions around the globe, and will hopefully make travel and activity planning easier.
From the simple SUM function to GoogleLookup, Google spreadsheets continues to add features that help you power through data. But sometimes it can be a challenge to find the one you need to use or figure out the right way to use it. The following improvements should help you quickly discover and understand all of the powerful functions that Google spreadsheets has to offer.
Google continue to add new features like pagination and discussions to the new document editor, to make sure you always have access to all of the latest functionality - whether you’re creating a new doc from scratch or using a template from the gallery. As part of this effort, Google are removing Google Docs templates created in the old document editor from the Google Docs template gallery.
The business world lags the consumer technology wave and cloud resellers such as HEDLOC have found a way to help them catch up with Google. Perhaps you can, too
Bruno Pisano no longer finds it surprising when enterprise customers ask him variations on the same question: why can't my expensive corporate IT system do the same thing as cloud services that consumers get for free?
Pisano decided to set up cloud-services reseller HEDLOC to provide his customers with better answers.
"We were seeing consumer technology move at such a rapid pace – we're still seeing that – and business lagging more and more behind," says Pisano, HEDLOC's chief executive officer.
Google are always trying to make it easier for people to connect - whether that means sending an email, chatting or video chatting, you can reach the people you care about from right inside Gmail. Last year, Google made it possible for those of you in the U.S. to call any mobile phone or land line directly from Gmail and starting today, this will be available to many more of you who use Gmail outside the U.S. by offering calling in 38 new languages.
Google Maps 5.8 for Android improves Places and Latitude with:
In an effort to evolve the Google design and experience, the Google team have improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets. Google have simplified the layout of search results pages and increased the size of page contents like text, buttons and other touch targets to make it faster and easier to browse and interact with search results in portrait or landscape view.
Earlier this year, Google introduced a security feature called 2-step verification that helps protect your Google Account from threats like password compromise and identity theft. By entering a one-time verification code from your phone after you type your password, you can make it much tougher for an unauthorised person to gain access to your account.
