GMail has come a long way since it was launched as a simple web mail application in 2004. Users can now integrate Google Docs and Calendar gadgets into their navigation bar, making it easy to search documents, receive alerts, and view calendar info all within GMail’s interface. In addition to chat, users can now also [...]
Category Archives: Google Apps
Google announces Labs for Apps and 99.9% service level agreement
November 3, 2008 – 1:44 pm
Last week, Google announced the release of its latest creation, Labs for Google Apps, a set of experimental tools for Apps users. Labs allows businesses and schools to try out freshly-created Apps features and provide feedback before the final release.
The concepts of experimentation and rapid adoption cycles are often frowned upon in enterprise technology. However [...]
Google Apps replaces Microsoft Office in Washington DC
October 13, 2008 – 5:54 pm
Washington DC has a big change in store - and its not just a new president.
The District’s 38,000 employees are making the switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps. This summer, DC’s Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, signed a deal with Google worth an estimated $500,000 per year. As part of the contract, the District [...]
Google provides SLA credit for Apps Premier outages
August 28, 2008 – 3:01 pm
Throughout the month of August, Google faced public scrutiny and received hundreds of complaints when multiple service outages prevented Apps Premier users from accessing their accounts. But even after the issues were resolved, users still questioned the stability of Apps and criticized Google’s vague responses and error messages.
Many angry customers found the downtime unacceptable and [...]
Understanding Google Apps migration issues - Sky moves 1 million users to Apps
November 19, 2007 – 2:08 am
Slashdot had an interesting feature today on Sky’s Botched Google Migration In the UK. There seems to be much consternation out there about this rather large (1 million user) migration. While LTech was not involved in any way on this project, we have been working with our customers on similar migration [...]
GDataCopier: Use Google Docs as a service
November 17, 2007 – 12:30 am
There is a neat little open-source tool from the folks at Google that allows you to use Google Docs as a service, uploading and downloading documents from the command line.
From Google:
GDataCopier is an API for Python programmers to:
Download documents and spreadsheets to various formats
Upload documents and spreadsheets from various file formats to the Google docs [...]