It isn’t easy to look on the bright side of an economic crisis. The unstable stock market is provoking widespread talk of “belt-tightening,” and already thousands of people have lost their jobs. However, there is a silver lining for cloud-based services: companies looking to cut IT spending are starting to take notice of Google Apps [...]
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Gartner positions Google in the leaders quadrant
October 1, 2008 – 7:41 pm
Gartner Inc., an information technology research company, recognized Google as a leading e-mail vendor in their 2008 report “Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundaries.”
With spam rates and security threats constantly increasing, e-mail providers must be able to define new strategies and invest in resources that will detect these issues. Gartner’s report evaluates multiple e-mail vendors [...]
First Google Android phone approved for sale this year!
August 19, 2008 – 3:40 pm
Look out, iPhone - the first phone powered by Google’s Android operating system was just approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to present a cell phone with the new Android software, which will make its debut as early as next month. The phone, referred to as the “Dream”, will be [...]
Google Apps is a big win for educational institutions
August 1, 2008 – 2:40 pm
Google Apps Education Edition helps attract solution providers
Google … announced 13 new education customers yesterday, including George Washington University, the University of Virginia and Indiana University.
Great news from our friends at Google! Google Apps for Edu is really taking off. We’ve had a deluge of orders from customers in the education space, from public school [...]
Google Docs - Now Offline!
March 31, 2008 – 5:41 pm
Big news from Google today.
Google Docs now works offline! This means that you no longer have to export to another word processor before you get on that airplane.
Now there’s a better solution. With Google Docs offline (powered by Google Gears), I can take my little piece of the cloud with me wherever I go. [...]
JotSpot Wiki Platform Relaunched as Google Sites
February 28, 2008 – 12:42 pm
http://sites.google.com/
From Google: “With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of
information in one place – including videos, calendars,
presentations, attachments, and text — and easily share it for
viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or
the world.”
It looks great, and is exactly what our customers have been looking for to improve collaboration without [...]
LTech’s “Brainiacs” Working with MarketAmerica and Google on Next Generation Search
February 20, 2008 – 2:24 pm
We were honored to participate in MarketAmerica’s leadership conference last week. MarketAmerica announced our partnership with them in the development of a Google Search Appliance-based platform.
Our friend Marc Ashley was kind enough to introduce us to a capacity crowd of 24,000+ excited MarketAmerica associates.
If you need help making sense of search for your business, [...]
Microsoft to takeover FAST - what does this mean for the enterprise search market?
January 8, 2008 – 5:44 pm
From TechCrunch:
“Microsoft has offered 19.00 Norwegian Kroner ($3.56) per share. The offer represents a 42 percent premium to the closing share price for Fast as at January 4 and values FAST at 6.6 billion NOK ($1.2 billion U.S).”
This could heat things up in the space. Microsoft is already giving away a “free” (if you own [...]
Google launches Blackberry sync!
December 13, 2007 – 12:32 am
This is fantastic news for all of us Blackberry addicts out there. I was actually missing meetings for a while after I moved from Exchange to Google Apps because of the lack of sync functionality.
This is a huge feature everyone had been requesting; I had been beating the drum on this for months but I [...]