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LA Equips City Employees with Google Apps

January 2, 2023 By Arnold Zafra

Google just got a huge userbase with the city of Los Angeles equipping its employees with Google Apps which they can use for email  and collaboration in the cloud.  Starting today, more than 34,000 city employees will have access to various Google tools and services provided by Google Apps’ suite of collaborative technologies.

The decision to adapt Google Apps was made by the city’s CTO Randi Levin and her team at the city’s Information Technology Agency. The group evaluated 14 proposals but found Google Apps to be the most practical and most suited for the employees needs.

True enough, Google Apps cloud computing service may actually improve the city’s email system secutiry and reliability – something all govenment agencies should pay close attention to.

Employees will also have access to collaboration technology including facility to share docs, sites and videos which employees can edit simulataneously in the cloud.  The City is hoping that the use of Google Apps will help the employees run the City smoothly and efficiently.

But the bottomline of course is the fact that aside from  implementing a robust information technology strategy, it actually lessens the cost the City will be spending on its IT infrastructure. And consistent uptime is almost assured being hosted in Google’s cloud.

Originally posted on December 14, 2009 @ 2:46 pm

Filed Under: Email, Google, Internet, Technology Tagged With: cloud computing, Google apps

Google Cuts Prices on Extra Gmail and Picasa Storage

January 2, 2023 By Mike Abundo

GmailWhen Gmail introduced free multigigabyte mailboxes for the masses, a lot of us suddenly got spoiled about storing years of email with enormous attachments, without deletion. Five years later, power Gmail users find themselves approaching their free storage limit.

If you’re one of those users, fear not. Google has slashed prices on extra storage for Gmail and Picasa. Now you can get 20 gigabytes for five dollars a year. If you need even more than that — say, if you send and receive dozens of enormous files via email every day, or if you store millions of high-resolution raw photos online — packages scale all the way up to an amazing 16 terabytes for $4,096 annually. Cloud storage pack rats rejoice!

Originally posted on November 11, 2009 @ 7:05 am

Filed Under: Email, Google Tagged With: Email, gmail, Google, picasa

Hitler on Hotmail Scam

December 30, 2022 By Mike Abundo

New media news meets new media memetics as Hitler is informed that his Hotmail password has been leaked.

Anyone who underestimates the social value of Net savvy should learn something from this video: the social consequences of making bad online media recommendations. I wouldn’t want to be Fegelein right now.

Originally posted on October 10, 2009 @ 6:38 am

Filed Under: Email, Mashups, Microsoft Tagged With: Email, Hitler, hotmail, Mashups, Microsoft

Bank Sends Info to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google

December 30, 2022 By Mike Abundo

Rocky Mountain BankA word of advice if you have an account with Rocky Mountain Bank in Wyoming: get your money out of there. Not only will they be careless enough to mishandle your sensitive information, they’ll be stupid enough to sue a third party for their own mistake.

A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data.

According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of the Rocky Mountain Bank asked a bank employee to send certain loan statements to a representative of the customer. The employee, however, inadvertently sent the e-mail to the wrong Gmail address. Additionally, the employee had attached a sensitive file to the e-mail that should not have been sent at all.

As if that weren’t bad enough, they’ll be deceptive enough to try and cover up the whole mess. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 22, 2009 @ 7:27 am

Filed Under: Email, Google Tagged With: Email, Google, Rocky Mountain Bank

Gmail trounces AOL to take #3 web mail position

December 30, 2022 By Andy Merrett

google-mail-logoThe latest not-really-that-important web statistics show that Google’s GMail web mail service is now the third largest in the US.

What’s more surprising is that it had to overtake AOL to get there.

AOL? Why do so many people still use AOL?

The top two webmail providers are Hotmail, with 47m unique users, and Yahoo! Mail, with a whopping 106m. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 17, 2009 @ 11:23 am

Filed Under: AOL, Email, Google, Microsoft, Web applications, Yahoo Tagged With: AOL, Email, gmail, hotmail, statistics, Yahoo

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