As part of a new drive to promote Google Apps, Google has commenced a nationwide billboard campaign promoting the products.

The new campaign is designed to promote Google’s cloud application services including Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs. The main target of the campaign is toward the business community, Google is promoting itself as a smarter safer and more cost effective method of managing email servers and internal networks. Google applications can be accessed from any location, can be shared by any number of users and to top it all off the service is free.

“Here at Google, we have a term for the moment a company realizes there’s a better way and goes for it: “going Google.” Over 1.75 million businesses, schools and organizations have gone Google — including Motorola, University of Notre Dame, the Mercy Corps and many more — and each day, 3,000 more organizations join them. We want every organization to understand the benefits of going Google, so today we’re telling the story in a new way. We’re kicking off a series of outdoor billboards in four cities — Boston, Chicago, New York and San Francisco — that will change every weekday for the next four weeks. The billboards tell the story of an anonymous IT manager who gets so fed up with the typical IT status quo that his company eventually — you guessed it — goes Google.” Taken from the official Google Blog.

 

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Google’s Voice Communication Application is continuing to develop with the addition of two new mobile device applications for the Blackberry and the Google Android Platform. Currently Google Voice is only available in the US but international version are scheduled to be rolled out in the near future. Google voice allows you to use one single number to receive all of your telephone calls, voice messages and SMS to one location. This is nothing new most phone carriers have been offering these types of services for years.

What makes Google Voice unique is its ability to transcribe and store voice messages which can be searched using the application or online.

The new mobile applications offer most of the online functionality to the mobile user and include:

- Access your voicemail: read message transcripts, follow along with “karaoke-style” playback of messages, read SMS messages sent to your Google Voice number (even if your phone doesn’t receive SMS messages) and access your call history

- Place calls that display your Google Voice number from your address book, the app dialer (Blackberry) or the native dialer (Android)

- Send SMS messages that display your Google Voice number

- Place international calls at low rates



To download the App please visit m.google.com/voice  from your mobile device or if you do not have a Blackberry or Adroid mobile device then you can visit www.google.com/voice

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Google are directly challenging Microsoft business applications with the launch of a new service called Google Apps Sync, but is this part of a bigger plan?

In an ambitious move, Google have launched a plug-in application that will allow existing Outlook 2003 and 2007 users to sync Calendar, Contacts and Email online within Google’s Cloud Services. The new application is designed to help users migrate away from Microsoft Exchange while maintaining the Outlook interface and features.

Initially the application will only be available to Google Apps Premium users, but at only $50 a year for the service, it’s a small price to pay for such a valuable product.

Google have also launched a Mobile version of the Application for Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices. This will allow business users to sync and view email, calendar and contacts directly from their mobile device while on the move.

Some very high profile companies have chosen to migrate from Exchange to Google cloud services, including biotech company Genentech and chip manufacturer Avago Technologies, both of which have been using a beta version as part of product testing.
Morgan Hotels Group recently moved all 1700 of its users from Exchange to Google. “We eliminated 16 servers that were at the end of their lifecycle and due to be replaced, so we saved money right away and there will be fewer to buy going forward,” Jason Harper, vice president of technology at Morgans Hotel Group, told InternetNews.com

Only a few days ago we discussed Google Wave and how it was going to radically change the way we communicate using Email, Blog and Chat. Google has also launched Google Voice, a VOIP software to challenge Skype. So is this part of a bigger Google plan? Are Google looking for a large share of the communications market place? All the components are in place, each individual element is being tested and Google Wave is the perfect platform to bring them all together.

Google Wave is an open source product which is in a prelaunch stage. Google recently released the product source code to a select number of key application builders in order to product test and develop new components. This is part of Google’s ingenious product development protocol, allowing real users to develop usable component applications. Google Wave is due to launch towards the end of the year, and speculation is already building. One thing we can say for sure, the next few months will be very, very interesting.

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