Google Apps Premier finally hits corporate IT

back from London and the first thing I notice is Techmeme overly cluttered with news about Google, which finally did what so many have expected and demanded in the past: launched feb 21st, Google Apps Premier is a subscription-based, corporate version of the application package launched in late summer 2006, including the already well-known Gmail, [...]

back from holidays…

after a short but very much-required hiatus for myself, it’s time to pick up this blog with various bits of news I stumbled upon during the last days…kind-of emulating Marc Canter’s primary posting-style…
while most users are still waiting for their Gmail-accounts to fetch external POP-mail, Google Operating System has got some screenshots & descriptions. Gmail [...]

Gmail now fetching POP3-mailboxes

apparently Google is about to add a widely claimed feature to their successful Gmail-service: Mail Fetcher will allow users to fetch mail from any existing POP3-mailbox. while it’s currently possible to setup ‘foreign’ mail-accounts to forward mail to Gmail as well as setting alternative from-addresses, this new feature will make it very easy to use [...]

Gmail integrates Google Spreadsheets

Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogscoped reports the recent integration of Google Spreadsheets into Gmail. when receiving xls-attachments, Gmail users are now given a direct link to open such files in Google Spreadsheets. a similar feature for Word-documents / Google Docs (ex Writely) is still missing but almost certain to follow soon.

Google launches mobile java-client for Gmail

with todays release of a java-based client for Gmail, Google gives recognition to the uprising market of web-access via mobile- or smartphone. and while the stripped down html-version of Gmail (http://m.gmail.com) has been doing quite a good job for some time, this dedicated app will surely make mobile email more efficient. from the press-release:

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Gmail & Google Calender integration

this is probably not news, but I just recognized that Gmail/Calendar seems to handle event-invitations via email (like typically sent by Microsoft Outlook/Exchange-users) quite well. not only does Gmail offer to create an event-entry in Google Calendar (I was aware of that), but it also allows to give direct response (“Are you coming? Yes/NoMaybe…”) to [...]