Posts Tagged ‘google’

Gmail To Kick Blackberries To The Curb

It looks like Google is going to end support for the Gmail mobile app on the Blackberry platform: Beginning November 22, 2011, we will end support for the Gmail App for Blackberry(installed native app). Over this past year, we’ve focused efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser and will continue investing in [...]

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Threading The Conversation Needle

My latest article is up on the Faith & Technology Blog.  I discuss the recent Priority Inbox and Conversation View changes in Google Apps and Gmail.  Now it’s time to start thinking about the next topic!

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Exchange No More

We have officially shut down our Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 e-mail server.  All of our staff e-mail accounts have been successfully migrated to the Google Apps collaboration system.  We still have over 1,000 accounts on a few other servers but this is a significant milestone in the overall migration project.  Here’s to progress!

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Red Link of Death

Leave it to Google to come up with interesting new things.  I downloaded the latest version of Chrome and noticed that several things have changed.  You can now synchronize extensions and preferences across browsers.  The best part though is the new graphic for SSL certificates: This is the graphic that you now see when you [...]

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Practice Safe Searching

As I was navigating the internet today at work I noticed a new Google feature that seems rather interesting: Google has released the beta version of their https encrypted search website.  Google probably didn’t encrypt their searches from the beginning due to the increased overhead of the https protocol.  After several test searches I cannot [...]

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Social Networks Redirect Issue

While managing the network infrastructure at our Annual Conference I have run across a weird redirect issue.  All of the computers in the News Room running Windows XP, Vista and 7 started redirecting to MySpace pages.  In the beginning it was redirecting to an actual profile.  After an hour or so the website started returning [...]

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Google Apps

We have been working over the last few months to set up and deploy Google Apps to all of our various e-mail users at work. In case you have never heard it before Google has bundled many of their online offerings (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites) into a company branded version that [...]

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Google Stands Up To China

Google is taking a courageous stand against China.  Good for them! We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully [...]

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Chrome OS Coming Soon

It looks like Chrome OS will be launching within the week! Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. Hardware support is a problem with all operating [...]

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Google Dashboard

Have you ever wondered how much data Google stores in your account?  Check out the Google Dashboard, a new tool that shows you a list of every service that you use and provides links for managing your preferences.  This tool will be tremendously helpful in figuring out exactly where your data is.  Check it out!

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