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Microsoft’s refusal to offer upgrade price will backfire, says Google integrator
Australia’s leading Google Apps integrator Devnet is delighted that Microsoft has chosen not to offer Office users an upgrade price for the latest version of their software, claiming that it will encourage users to seek out alternative ways to bring their current Office suite up [...]

It is pleasing to see from a recent post on Google’s Blog that it is joining the Cloud Security Alliance. We think it is important that Google continues to be a part of Industry based organisations that help facilitate how security and privacy of customers data is managed in the Cloud.
The Cloud Security Alliance, a [...]

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 [...]

Google have announced that Message Security is to be provided free to K-12 schools that use Google Apps, and free also to K-12 schools that sign up for Google Apps before July 2010.
Google Message Security lets administrators limit messages based on who they’re from, who they’re going to, or the content they contain. Message rules [...]

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 10:45 AM,
Reference – Official Google Blog
Posted by Eric Orth, Software Engineer, Google Apps team
Over the last year, we’ve had a razor sharp focus on making it as easy as possible for businesses to deploy Google Apps. In the last few months you’ve seen some of the results, from offline Gmail [...]

As a website grows, organizing its content becomes ever more important. Google Sites has always allowed you to group pages in a hierarchy, but this wasn’t very apparent when finding your way around. We’ve been working on navigation, and today we’ve released a new feature that lets you set up a tree structure in your [...]

The fist day of cebit was full of action. The layout is far better this year and it is easier to move around the show.
Webciety is a new concept for Cebit Australia. It features 12 of Australia’s leading Web based companies including :

Devnet
Hiive Systems
Siteflex
ModSite
Saasu.com
Buzz Numbers
wotnews.com.au
SportsPassion
Design Bay
TJoos
IPScape
Travellr

Webciety provides a great area to interact with customers [...]

ARN – April 22 2009
Industry players from all sides of the fence have warmly welcomed the Federal Government’s plans to build the national broadband network (NBN) as a publicly-owned infrastructure project.
The popularity of on-demand computing and hosted-based services, such as cloud computing, will accelerate with next-generation broadband availability, managing director of cloud computing provider and [...]

Telstra’s T-Suite application offering will struggle to gain traction because it doesn’t deliver real value-add to customers looking to move to web-based applications.
Craig Deveson, managing director of Devnet, Australia’s leading integrator of Google software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions said that T-Suite reflected a lack of understanding as to where customers require help and assistance in transitioning to [...]

By Shaun Nichols
10 February 2009 02:50PM
ITnews.com.au
Google has ported its Sync service to the iPhone and Windows Mobile platforms.
The company on Monday announced that the service would be available as a beta release for both devices.
The Sync software will allow users to link their Google Calendar and Gmail contact lists with the built-in calendar and contact [...]