Google’s social network Google+ no longer requires a standard account. If you’re a Google Apps user, you can now use that account instead. More »
Shared editing is one of Google Docs’ more useful features, but sometimes you want to get comments from people without actually changing your master document. Docs now supports a “comment only” editing mode which makes that possible. More »
Microsoft officially rolled out its new Office 365 business suite earlier today. How does its pricing compare with its most visible rival, Google Apps? More »
If you’ve even briefly considered setting up your own domain with Google Apps, consider that after May 10, any new Apps “Standard Edition” sign-ups are limited to 10 users, requiring a Business Edition purchase to go beyond that limit. More »
Google has begun emailing Apps customers to notify them that there’ll be an automatic migration of users by May 11 to its new apps infrastructure, which supports a wider range of Google services. While everyone will be migrated eventually, you can kick off the process yourself and select which services will be available — I did for my Google Apps accounts and the whole process was pretty trouble-free. [Google]
If you’re using a Google Apps account with your own domain (which we recommend doing rather than, for example, using a straight-up @gmail account), you know that sometimes new feature releases are delayed. Unfortunately Google hasn’t changed anything on that front, but they have added a new feature release process for Google Apps, and depending on your account, it may be set to the slower release cycle — which you probably don’t want. More »
Google Apps users, whether running a domain or helping out on one, can now purchase individual storage plans from Google, allowing for certain users to have extras space for Docs, pictures, and other organisational data. [Google Enterprise Blog]
