Google Apps Premium Offers Message Recovery

After Google's recent acquisition of Postini, they are rolling out policy management and message recovery by Postini to Premier Edition administrators at no additional charge.

Here are some description from their product description page:

Policy management lets administrators implement rules for how messages are handled based on the sender, recipient, attachments or content of the message:

• Messages can be selectively tracked, routed for review or blocked according to company or regulatory compliance guidelines. For example, emails with specific keywords can be prevented from being sent to external recipients, or groups of users can be entirely prevented from sending external email.
• Configurable spam and virus filtering lets organizations add custom filtering rules, complementing the spam and virus protection already included in Gmail.

Message recovery allows you to search for mail across your whole domain and recover deleted emails on a 90-day rolling basis.

Premier Edition administrators can activate these new features from the Google Apps control panel.

It would be great if message recovery is available for normal Gmail users. ;)

News Summary

Google explains why anonymize server logs only after 18–24 months
They came up with three major reasons:

1. Improve our services: So they could know that you typed Google as Googel and gives relevant 'Do you mean ... ?" suggestions.
2. Maintain security and prevent fraud and abuse: To prevent sabotage and to detect and prevent phishing, scripting attacks, and spam such as query click spam and ads click spam.
3. Requested by law: To obey existing and proposed laws and regulations such as the EU Data Retention Directive and the US 24-month data retention laws.

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Google changes tagline to 'Search, Ads, Apps'
Reuters reports that according to Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt's presentation to investors ahead of Google's annual shareholder meeting:

Google Inc.'s corporate tagline has become "Search, Ads and Apps," reflecting a shift beyond search and advertising into online software applications, its chief executive said on Thursday.

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Google Apps Premium is Live

There have been rumors going on for a while that Google is launching a premium service for its current Google Apps. Google now provides free trial to the premium service for all existing users until 30th April. Here are some highlights of the premium edition:

1. The price for the premium version is $50 per user account per year
2. 10 GB of of email storage with no advertisements alongside emails
   
3. Access to API for integration with your existing infrastructure
4. 24/7 assistance, including phone support

You can view the full comparison here. There are many companies which offer similar products, can Google stand out?

Yes ... Google Apps premium got these advantages ...

1. Gmail's innovative ideas to improve web based email has received many awards with an extensive 10GB of storage without ads definitely sounds attractive to big corporation.
2. Most email service plans only offers purely email but Google also offers IM. Employees in corporations to can get instant responds using chat rather than emails.
3. Google provides API for IT technicians to integrate their existing services and provide more convenient interface and usage e.g. single sign-on.
   
4. Google Calendar which integrates with Gmail, allows much easy event scheduling and sharing.
5. The innovative start page feature allows corporates to build customized homepage for their employees which can include email, calendar, system announcements, etc.
6. Users can access most of the Apps features on their mobile phones which allows them to work wherever they are.
   

But there are still more to work on ...

1. Google Docs & Spreadsheet needs to add in more features to be competitive with other existing web based offices which provides much more advanced functions.
2. Google Page Creator is indeed a great tool for small corporates who does not have the resources to hire IT technicians to generate their own webpage. But to large corporates, this tools seems too basic and lacks advance web development tools.
   

Report bugs in Gmail

Google provides Gmail and other services to webmasters who owns a domain through Google Apps for your domain. Google knows very well that the administrator who can manage a domain has a greater chance of having better knowledge over programing and is more sensitive to small bugs. Therefore, Google places a 'Report bug' link in selected Gmail accounts of Google Apps for your domain adminstrator hoping that they will help refine ther system. On click, you will be redirected to a form dedicated for bug report. This is a description of the form:

This form is to make sure that Gmail knows about technical issues, and we regret that we cannot respond to every message we receive.

User feedback is always essential in product developments as combining the power of billions of users, you, can make a difference.

Register your domain via Google Apps

Google has partnered with two leading hosting companies (GoDaddy.com and eNom) to provide domain name registration service for $10 USD per year in Google Apps for your Domain. This offer includes private registration to protect your personal information which means you personal contact information is not accessible to the public. Currently, .com, .net,.org, .biz, and .info domains are available for registry. Google in act to attract more business users to use its services, has put much efforts in helping small and middle sized businesses to set up their online platform to connect their customers or employees with ease.