We're pleased to announce the release of new imagery data across the globe within Google Earth Pro . International coverage is a key feature in this release, including parts of Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, India, and China, to name a few. See the crowds gathering for an soccer match in Johannesburg, or marvel at the rapidly-changing Shanghai skyline. The United States imagery updates feature key urban sites, such as Boston, San Francisco, El Paso, Des Moines, and Portland,

Editor's note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which processes more than 3 billion email messages per day in the course of providing email security to more than 50,000 businesses and 18 million business users. Spam and virus volumes this year have continued their upward trend. Q2'10 has seen a sharp 16% increase in spam volume over Q1'10.

Editor's note: Today's guest bloggers are Aaron McCarthy, IT Director for Limbach Facility Services, Cristine Leifheit, Team Lead. McCarthy and Leifheit recently spearheaded the move to Google Apps for Limbach's 500 employees. A mechanical contractor founded in 1901, Limbach Facility Services switched from Lotus Notes®/Domino® to "Go Google" and gain 25GB mailboxes and built-in disaster recovery capabilities at no extra charge.

Editor's note: Continuing our "Going Google Everywhere" series, we've invited Sheila Garrison and Kristin Heaton-Peabody, co-founders of Hiatus Spa + Retreat, to explain how Google Apps helped them launch and grow their socially conscious spa in Dallas, Texas. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map . Pictured: Hiatus Spa + Retreat co-founders Kristin Heaton-Peabody and Sheila Garrison Our business, Hiatus Spa + Retreat ,

People often ask us what it really means to go Google â€" how it will impact their business and productivity? What are the actual savings? To answer some of those questions, we've built a little tool we're calling the Go Google cloud calculator that lets you explore your potential savings in an easy-to-understand way. Once you find out your results, the tool can also create a custom URL , presentation PDF ,

Customers often tell us how much their users love Google Maps. They love the friendly blue of the oceans, the easy-to-read labels of cities, and the solid yellow of the roads. But maybe you're a rebel â€" someone who wants the roads to look YOUR way. Or perhaps your corporate branding clashes with the standard version of cities and streets. You'd love to change the colors on the map, or adjust the details your customers see. If that's you, we have good news.

One of our most popular feature requests has been to add autocompletion of queries to Google Site Search . In recent months, many top websites have begun to provide search suggestions as you type, an innovative feature users are coming to expect as part of a quality search experience. Today, we announced at Google I/O that you can now enable query autocompletions for your search engine. Travelocity.

Google Apps is built for the web, with open standards and APIs that enable our customers to extend and integrate Google's expanding suite of web-based applications with other services â€" whether those services are offered by software vendors through the Google Apps Marketplace or built by their own IT departments. Today,

I'm delighted to announce the launch of Google Maps API Premier v3 today, which includes the functionality you've put to use in v2 plus new features that Premier partners have requested, including: Support for mobile browsers such as Android and iPhone Optimized routing Support for custom Street View imagery Support for mobile browsers We started last year completely rebuilding the Maps API in order to dramatically increase performance, especially on mobile browsers.

Editor's note: Every now and then we like to showcase innovative uses of Google Maps and Earth. Today we're excited to welcome Don Rescigno, who is the Director of Marketing for NYSTROM Herff Jones Education, which has implemented the Google Earth and Maps API into educational software to make learning more interactive. School Maps & Globes 2.

The data that powers API features like the map tiles, geocoding, and driving directions has been updated in Canada! The new base map in Canada will have expanded features such as more detailed water bodies, university campuses, zipcode coverage, and a shorter feedback cycle for Maps updates â€" all leading to better, more accurate maps for employees and customers.

Join the Google Postini team on March 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. PDT for a live webinar addressing "Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense." This interactive session will explore the growing requirements for email security and email archiving and the benefits and cost savings available when companies bring these services to the cloud. Learn about: best-in-class practices, including results from recent research, presented by Michael Osterman,

Editor's Note: Today's guest author is A.J. Clark, President of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, which helps developers build new applications with the Google Earth browser plug-in on Google Earth Enterprise through the iSpatial framework. A.J. works on the visualization, analysis, and dissemination of disaster/post-conflict data with a focus on emerging technologies that support participatory,

Earlier this week, we launched the Google Apps Marketplace , an online storefront for Google Apps that makes it easy for domain admins to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications. JIRA Studio , a hosted software development suite from Atlassian, was one of 50 apps available at launch and is now available for trial or purchase in the Marketplace. But even before the launch, one team put the Google Apps and JIRA combination to the test: theStartupBus.com .

If your company runs a website, you already know the importance of search engine marketing and optimization. But are you confident that your website is providing the very best user experience possible? If you haven't added or improved your search function yet, you could be missing out on conversions, sales, and repeat visits. Next week, we're hitting the road to help spread the message about Google Commerce Search and Google Site Search .

The Google Developer team will be live streaming an important announcement about Google Apps this evening. Tune in on the Google Developers YouTube channel tonight at 6:00 p.m. PST to watch. Enjoy the show! Posted by Chris Kelly,

Today, we're introducing a new feature for Google Postini Services: Message Log Search. This feature delivers the search and analysis capabilities normally available with on-premise solutions, but without the associated complexity or maintenance. When messages pass through the Postini service, header and transaction data about these messages is stored in a log. Previously, admins only had access to this data through customer support. With the Message Log Search feature,

​The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+ Mozilla Firefox 3.0+ Google Chrome 4.0+ Safari 3.

As you may have heard from our announcement yesterday , registration for Google I/O is now open! This year's Google I/O will focus on building the next generation of applications in the cloud, using Google products like App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, and Google APIs, with particular emphasis on Android, Chrome, and Enterprise. Here are just a couple of Enterprise sessions that are already listed on the I/O website )many more are in the works!

Many corporations and consumers regularly come under cyber attack, and Google is no exception. We recently detected a cyber attack targeting our infrastructure and that of at least 20 other publicly listed companies. This incident was particularly notable for its high degree of sophistication. We believe Google Apps and related customer data were not affected by this incident. Please read more about our public response on the Official Google Blog .