Google Calendar now supports several new features: – Google Calendar recognizes the locations of your events and lets you view where events take place in Google Maps. – You can transfer ownership of an event to a different Google Calendar user. – Google Calendar now does time zone auto-detection to help you view your calendar in the right local time zone when you're traveling. – You can now report event invitation spam. – Events between two people now show the other attendee's name in the event block on your calendar.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: To view where an event takes place in Google Maps, view the details of the event and click the 'map' link. This works when the event owner has entered a location recognized by Google Maps. To transfer ownership of an event to a different user, view the details of the event and choose 'Transfer Event...' from the 'Calendar' selection menu. You'll be prompted sent a notification to the new event owner. To report event invitation spam, click the event on your calendar, and then click the 'Report Spam' link.For more information: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging.html#calendar Get these updates by email Subscribe to the RSS feed
BlackBerry users can now synchronize their BlackBerry's built-in address book with their Google Apps contacts. Two-way sync happens automatically over the air.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: To use Google Sync or upgrade from the older version, visit m.google.com/sync from your BlackBerry browser.For more information: http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/sync.html Get these updates by email Subscribe to the RSS feed
Google Apps administrators can now specify that all new user-created Google Sites will not display a logo at the top of each page.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to the administrative control panel, click 'Domain settings' and then 'Appearance'. Un-check the box for 'Show this logo in all sites that users create', then click 'Save changes'.For more information: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/collaboration.html#sites Get these updates by email Subscribe to the RSS feed
Google Calendar users can now access their accounts in Hebrew and Arabic, including a complete right-to-left user interface.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: Hebrew and ArabicHow to access what's new: Sign in to Google Calendar and click 'Settings' to change your language preferences.For more information: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37032 Get these updates by email Subscribe to the RSS feed
You can now have voice and video chats with your contacts for free within your browser's Gmail window.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: From Gmail, open a chat session with a contact, click on the 'Video & more' menu at the bottom of the chat window, then select 'Start video chat' or 'Start voice chat'. The first time you use this feature, you'll be prompted to download and install a small plugin.For more information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/11/gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html
Google Apps administrators can now link their Google Analytics accounts to Google Apps, providing administrators with usage data for Google Docs and Google Sites.Editions impacted: Premier and Education EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Sign in to the administrative control panel, go to the 'Advanced Tools' tab, click 'Setup Google Analytics' and enter the profile ID number from your Google Analytics account to begin collecting usage data. Sign in to Google Analytics to view and analyze the data.For more information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-analytics-for-google-apps.html
The Google Docs API is now capable of updating the actual content of documents, sharing documents, and moving documents into and out of folders programmatically.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Visit the Google Documents List Data API overview site to get started. (See link below.)For more information: http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html
Premier and Education Edition administrators can now use OAuth authentication to access GData feeds for users on their domains. Using OAuth, administrators can act on behalf of end-users without any end-user involvement.Editions impacted: Premier and Education EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: Premier and Education Edition admins can enable OAuth in the 'Authentication' section of the 'Advanced tools' tab of the Google Apps administrative control panel.For more information: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61017
Google Apps Premier Edition now includes a 99.9% uptime guarantee for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Talk.Editions impacted: Premier EditionLanguages impacted: AllHow to access what's new: This uptime guarantee is available to all Premier Edition customers.For more information: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html
Google Calendar now supports several new features: – When scheduling appointments, you can now automatically find the next available time that works for all attendees and resources like conference rooms. – You can add a secondary time zone to see when events take place if you frequently travel between time zones or work with people in other time zones. – Meeting reminders can now be customized more granularly between zero and five minutes before an event. – Google Calendar supports more keyboard shortcuts now.Editions impacted: Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted: US EnglishHow to access what's new: To have Google Calendar find the next available time for a meeting, click 'Create Event' and then 'Check guest and resource availability'. Add the invitees and resources (like conference rooms) you want to invite, set the duration of your meeting, and click 'Find next available time'. To add a secondary time zone, click 'Settings' and then 'Show an additional time zone' to make a time zone selection that will appear on your calendar alongside your primary time zone. Granular meeting reminders can be set per-event by clicking 'Event details' and adjusting your preferences. To see a list of keyboard shortcuts, enter "?".For more information: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging.html#calendar