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For our customers, mail flow for Google Postini Services has been “normal” since about 3:25 this afternoon. A short while ago, the Message Center and System Administration consoles came back online. The Postini service will continue to add deferred messages to the stream of messages being process and delivered in real-time. While we have no […]

Google Postini Services continue to experience mail flow problems. Mail flow rates continue to swing between Normal and Critical this afternoon. Horizon’s customers site on Postini’s “System 7”, which is now operating out of secondary data centers. This shift should improve mail flow as the systems forward deferred messages. A status update posted at 2:40 […]

With 25GB of inbox space for each user, managing space is rarely an issue. Company policies related to records retention, however, often create a need to enforce retention policies on email messages. In Google Apps Premier Edition, you can not set a retention period for email. Once set, Gmail will automatically permanently delete all email […]

One of the basic tenants of social networking is to be mindful of your contacts’ birthdays and special events. Google Calendar can help. You can now add a special calendar that shows your contacts’ birthdays and events. To add the birthday and event calendar in Google Calendar: From the Settings page, select ‘Browse interesting calendars’ […]

The US has a CIO for the first time. In appointing Vivek Kundra the federal government’s first CIO, President Obama acknowledges the role information services can play in effective management and service delivery.Vivek Kundra, the former CTO of Washington D.C., is best known for moving the District onto Google Apps. In addition to big savings […]

Smaller companies, like drop.io, are coming out with innovative, feature rich offerings to strong reviews. While these solutions compete with specific collaboration functions, they do not yet offer an integrated communications and collaboration solution.

In a major shift, Microsoft has changed its mind and backtracked from its decision to allow VARs to bill directly for SaaS solutions. Here is the story.

When you create a form, associated with a spreadsheet, you can now elect to share results — a summary of responses — with your collaborators, or with everybody that fills in the form. Learn more here.

Google has added data validation (lenient or strict) to Google Spreadsheets. You can now: Validate numbers, dates, and text. Prevent users from entering text that doesn’t match your criteria, or show them a comment on the cell when the data doesn’t match the validation rule. Add text to the cells you add validation to, to […]

Google announced that they are offering on-line courses and a certification test for Google Analytics. This is a good start in helping business owners understand if they are engaging qualified resources. We look forward to Google expanding the program to their other product lines. We also encourage Google to consider a practicum or customer references […]