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Mail Delegation in Gmail
Released on 8/04/2009, Google Apps Official Update from the Google Apps team.
You can now allow others (i.e. administrative assistants) in your domain access to your email.
Now included in the Premier Edition, Languages included: US English
How to access what’s new:
Administrators must first enable mail delegation by checking the Mail Delegation checkbox under ‘Email [...]

Australian-owned Devnet says users should consider exiting investments in Microsoft Exchange or Sharepoint and ride Google’s Wave.
Google Enterprise Apps partner Devnet, said it has begun work to integrate, the Web giant’s collaboration platform, Google Wave, into its ‘Cloud Ready’ program.
Devnet managing director Craig Deveson said a lot of cloud-based solutions have simply taken legacy server-based [...]

Reference: The Official Google Blog
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:00 PM
by Andy Palay, Gmail engineer
Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, [...]

On the Google Desktop gadgets team, they have seen countless requests for a Gmail gadget over the years. That gadget is finally here, so if you’ve got Google Desktop for Windows, give it a try.
You’ll see that it covers the basics such as reading, searching, and sending messages. You can star messages, use the same [...]

Google have recently seen some speculation recently about a purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners’ domains by unauthorized third parties. Google are committed to providing secure products, and we mounted an immediate investigation. Their investigation results indicate no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability.
With help from affected users, Google determined [...]

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. Google staff wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one [...]

Computerworld – Microsoft Corp. on Friday defended the redesign of its Windows Live Hotmail e-mail service, which has been blasted by some users, but the company said it would stick with the new interface.
Today, it also urged users who were unable to access their mail to switch to the skeletal mobile version or use a [...]

Are you addicted to your email? Do you keep Gmail open on your browser, constantly hitting refresh to get your latest messages, just in case…?
If you’re using Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer (or Firefox version), you can add the Gmail custom button to make your life easier.
With the Gmail button, you can get new [...]

Users of Google’s Gmail service can now send text message chats to mobile phones using the webapp’s built-in Chat feature.
Google is adding the experimental functionality through Gmail Labs. To turn it on, go to the Labs tab within Gmail’s settings. Or, just click on the little green Erlenmeyer flask icon next to your e-mail address [...]

The NSW Department of Education & Training will start migrating its 1.5 million students off the current MS Exchange email system and onto Google’s Gmail system.  The whole process aims to be complete by the end of November 2008. 
NSW Department CIO Stephen Wilson said that the they plann to equip their students with web 2.0 [...]