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.
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]
When it launched, millions of us grabbed free Gmail addresses, and associated Calendar, Docs and other apps followed. But personal domains are cheap, and claiming an @yourname.com address to use with Google Apps is easier than ever. Here’s why you should.
Google Apps users will now have the full access to Google’s list of products and suites, including the likes of Google Reader, Blogger and Picasa — something many of us have been waiting for a long time to happen. If you’re not seeing the updates already, you should over the next couple of months.
Google Apps users authorising access from other applications — email clients, calendar apps and the like — may soon need to verify both their password and phone access, under a new two-step authorisation being pushed by Google.
In May, Google announced that Apps users will get all Google Services; this week, certain Google Apps users (including some of us at Lifehacker) have been receiving invitations to test full-featured Google services with their Google Apps account. Want to take the plunge? You can find the signup form here. [Wired]
Google’s Chrome Web Store is unveiled, but not yet released. If you’re running the latest Chrome Dev version or Chromium though, you can check out the early versions of the Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar apps, as if from the Store.
