Posts tagged with "Google Apps"

Gmail Labs is a feature of Gmail wherein you can use experimental features before they become officially launched. Most of these potential features are developed so that the average user can save time and be more efficient in using the mailbox. This gives a better overall experience with email, as it’s now one of the most widely used forms of communication. Aside from being built for general purposes, Gmail Labs features can also be useful for marketing and sales processes. This stems from the fact that people involved in marketing and sales nowadays are constantly interacting with leads and prospects through ... READ MORE

Google’s cloud email service Gmail is becoming the email of choice for more and more businesses. While the standalone product is fast, intuitive, feature-rich, and mobile, it’s also extensible, and there’s a large market for add-ons and plug-ins that can improve an already great e-mail experience for the business user. Check out the following Gmail add-ons, available through third parties or right in Gmail Labs. Rapportive Create a holistic view of your Gmail contacts from right inside your inbox using this free add-on for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Mailplane. Once installed, Rapportive displays information about your contacts in a sidebar to the ... READ MORE

With Google Drive, Google has entered the cloud storage market, competing with established players like Dropbox and Box.net. Launched at the end of April this year, Google Drive lets you upload and access your files from anywhere—everything from documents to PDFs to videos, photos and more. Google Drive is built to integrate with other Google apps like Google Docs, Gmail, and Google+, creating a seamless experience across all Google applications. Google Drive is free for 5GB of memory. 25GB of memory can be purchased for $2.49 per month with additional memory available at progressively higher pricing tiers. In addition to being ... READ MORE

The small business software market is filled with standalone solutions that tend to do only one thing, whether it's accounting, email marketing, point-of-sale, etc. Some solutions bring a few of these things together, but rarely all of them at once. That's where Brightpearl's business management software comes in. Brightpearl was founded in 2007 by Chris Tanner, who was frustrated by the limited functionality of most available software for SMBs. Rather than making do with solutions that were only complicating his business, Tanner decided to develop his own software. Five years later, Brightpearl is a complete system for retailers, wholesalers, service businesses, ... READ MORE

BS Blog Keywords: Google Apps, Google Business Apps, Google Apps Marketplace Google has been known for coming out with new and upcoming products to simplify our everyday life.  Adding to their options, Google introduced 10 new business applications availale in the Google Apps Marketplace.  Google currently houses houndreds of Google apps in the Google Apps Marketplace that integrates functions into your business Google account.  Google Business Apps available to integrate include accounting, finance, admin, and marketing tools from top of the line vendors.  The new applications added this month will expand your productivity while ... READ MORE

Invitation only. This was the primary way any person could gain access to Google's new service, Google Voice. Launched in March of 2009, the service was exclusively limited to users on an invite only basis. However, recently Google announced that on June 22nd 2010, right to use would be widened so that any US resident had the ability to utilize the service. Originally the brainchild of GrandCentral, the telecommunication service was bought by Google in 2007 for $50 Million. For the next two years Google took what GrandCentral had created and transformed and adapted it ... READ MORE

With the new release of Google's Android 2.2, there are several observed pros and cons for the adaptation of its security features. One of the Android's assists is its high degree of Source Code Openness, which is the degree of accessibility to view and modify the devices codes or the degree which systems operate within boundaries. This accessibility is advantageous for developers and also for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). Unfortunately, Source Code Openness also makes it difficult for IT Pros that deal with any security and support organizations effectively. An additional feature is a new device ... READ MORE

This year, cloud computing services and collaboration platforms make for good stories, and this one deals with both. Next week, Big Blue is holding the Lotusphere Conference in Orlando—dedicated to all things dealing with LotusLive, their online collaboration suite—and this week they announced LotusLive’s exciting partnership with Panasonic. Panasonic has adopted the LotusLive suite for email, calendaring, contact management, web conferencing, instant messaging, file sharing, and project management, and the apps will be available to about 100,000 employees in various departments at Panasonic. LotusLive will eventually be extended to 300,000 Panasonic employees, but the major coup for the suite comes via ... READ MORE

In a move to provide more “people-centric” than “document-centric” solutions, Cisco will broaden its business productivity offerings and compete with IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Google. Specifically, the company announced Cisco Show and Share, a collaboration tool, and Cisco WebEx Mail, a mail client using software from PostPath, one of Cisco’s acquisitions. Cisco Show and Share is being termed a “social video system,” and will help communities “create and manage highly secure video communities.” It also provides users with the ability to edit and share video comments, and offers tagging and RSS feed functionality, as well as speech-to-text transcription. Show and Share ... READ MORE