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Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Web services, Google, Microsoft

Pay version of Google Apps for your domain coming soon?

google soon to be charging for apps for domainGoogle Apps for your domain allows domain owners to host email services at Google in a similar format to Gmail, with the added benefit of using their own unique domain. Administrators also have the ability to activate Google Talk, Calendar, custom start page, and domain web pages for different user accounts that they create. Google is expected to soon add Docs & Spreadsheets to this list as well, making it a complete online office solution for businesses. But BusinessWeek reports that Google will soon begin charging companies a subscription fee of a few dollars per person, per month. Business users are used to feature rich applications, so this might take some getting used to when it's released in full to the marketplace.

Microsoft has also unveiled Office Live where businesses can have access to web based email, calendar, project and task manager, and a customer organizer for $39.95/month. Zoho has a Virtual Office suite it has brought to the market that has no cost for individuals and $3 per user per month for an online hosted solution, and up to $295 per year for an on-premise solution consisting of webmail, calendar, web docs and sharing, tasks and reports, contacts, notes, bookmarks, instant messaging, WAP access, announcements, and multi-language support.

Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Web services, Google

g4me - Mac OS X widget checks Gmail for Your Domain

g4me - Mac OS X widget checks Gmail for your domainIt's pretty hard to argue that Google's Apps for your Domain service isn't both a genius idea and a powerful option for individuals and small businesses alike to leverage the power of their domain. An unfortunate drawback, however, of these services is that most 3rd party tools, scripts and add-ons built for Google's public apps, like Gmail and Google Calendar, won't work with these same services when they're run on your domain. I remember when I first signed up to poke around with running Gmail on my domain, but then being let down when I realized the Greasemonkey scripts I find so vital to Gmail wouldn't even work.

In the first sign I've seen of 3rd parties embracing Apps for your Domain, a developer named Ahmet Tahar Sakar has created a widget for Mac OS X's Dashboard that can check your domain's Gmail account. It even works with Growl, a system-wide notification utility that can allow any apps to hook in to display visual notifications of events like new email, song changes in iTunes and even device disconnections. Since I'm no longer using Google's services I haven't been able to test this out myself, but if you give it a go please share your thoughts with the rest of the class.

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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Web services, Google, Social Software, Unix

Google unites Apps for Your Domain with domain registrars

Google unites Apps for Your Domain with domain registrars
Google has just announced a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, two leading domain name registrars, to allow new users of their Apps for Your Domain service to register a domain right from within Google's signup process. This is a killer idea that, in hindsight, sounds like a completely logical step to take, but I bet most didn't even see it coming. After you sign up for a Google Account or log in to their service signup page, you are how offered the ability to enter your existing domain to get the process started, or search for and purchase a domain if you don't already have one. As icing on the cake, Google is even including private registration (typically ~ $2-3/year/domain) if you buy your domain through this new feature.

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