Google Apps is a productivity and email solution which helps you to use Google services like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Youtube and others using your own domain. This is especially useful for small and upcoming businesses and it removes the headache of maintaining your own mail servers and severely complicating things. Google Apps is a simple enough solution and can be deployed very easily. There used...

IIT-Bombay spinoff InOpen Technologies recently collaborated with Google’s Edtech Team to organize ‘Google Apps for Education India Summit’. Held for 2 days at the American School of Bombay, the summit was first of its kind & meant to introduce Google Apps geared for education. Google Apps is a collective effort of the search giant Google that aims to offer a plethora of internet driven...

Gmail is one of the most widely used email service in existence today and it is getting better at its job every passing year. Besides the design interface that Google pushed some months back, there are many productivity features it comes with. The Gmail team announced yesterday on their official blog that they have introduced three new features in Gmail. The outstanding one among them is email translation,...

Microsoft and Google have both established themselves in the country with their offerings of personal productivity software and services. And now they are competing against each other in the still nascent field of Cloud Computing for enterprise. Cloud Computing is the new buzzword on everyone’s lips. What does it mean exactly or is everyone just going gaga over nothing? Cloud Computing for Enterprises...

With intent to empower the digitalization of rural India, UPA has announced a scheme to provide broadband connectivity. The announcement made will cost Rs. 20,000 crore in the initial phase. The new scheme will ensure that the gram sabhas at the village level will be connected with the rest of the governmental system, opening up new avenues for delivery of services to the people, including e-governance,...

This Wednesday Software giant Microsoft announced its new plan to launch Office 365 in India which is a cloud version of its Office products. This will be a boon in disguise to the enterprises in the nation to access high end solutions such as emails as well as other pay-per-use models of collaboration tools. We have reported earlier that among 38 countries including India promoting it as a tool for...

One of the biggest deals of the tech world has been announced — Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. The aftershocks of this deal would be felt on three subsets of the tech world — mobile, social networking, SMB services — other than improving real-time communication over various platforms. Microsoft is expected to bring in deeper Skype integration into Lync, Outlook, Xbox...

Microsoft is expanding the the beta version of Office 365 and has made service available in 38 Countries and 17 languages. The company has also launched an application and services storefront called Office 365 Marketplace, which features about 100 applications and 400 professional services from developers and channel partners. Since Office 365 is a cloud based service, users can access it from anywhere...

Google added over 100 new features to Google Apps in 2009 and over 130 features in 2010. It is a well known fact that, Google keeps updating its products a lot faster than most companies. We, as independent users, are glad to be a part of this fast track movement, but same is not the case for enterprises using Google Apps, who want “more notice before new features are deployed to their users.”...

Early this morning, Mashable reported that Google Labs added a new application called Shared Spaces. Anyone familiar with Google Wave, can see immediately that this new labs feature is based heavily on technology used by Wave. Personally, I think that Wave was an excellent application, perhaps Google went wrong in positioning it more as a social application than as a collaboration/productivity app....