Posted by John Collins, Sr. Global Trust Product Manager In 1992, while I was an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, some fellow students and I started an ambitious project to connect residence halls to the campus network and the Internet. After all, the web was just being created in '92! At the time, our Lab Sciences House )Wright Hall, now gone... sniff... sniff( had a single mainframe terminal in what amounted to a large closet. The mainframe terminal was old,

Posted by Adam Swidler, Google Apps Security Team Last week the Google Enterprise Team participated in the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Washington, D.C . We met CIO's and IT leaders from all types of organizations to discuss the latest trends in information security, business continuity, and risk management. On Monday we kicked off the showroom opening with a session entitled Why Your Data is More Secure in Google's Cloud ,

Posted by Simon Smith, Google Apps User Experience lead Google Apps, along with all of Google, will get a new look over the course of the summer to make the user interface more focused, elastic and effortless to use . We continuously improve and seamlessly update our products )there were about 125 new features added to Google Apps last year( and hope that these user interface updates will make features easier to find when you need them and hide them when you don't.

Posted by Governor Matt Mead, State of Wyoming Editors note: Today Wyoming Governor Matt Mead is announcing the completion of the migration of all 10,000 state government employees to Google Apps for Government . State employees now have a unified communications system that makes it easier for them to find & collaborate with one another. View the live stream of the Governor's announcement starting at 8:00am MT. Hello from the great State of Wyoming .

Posted by Pradeep Agarwal, Head of Google Enterprise, India )Cross-posted from the Google India Blog .( Today in Mumbai, more than 400 IT and business leaders will join Google executives, industry experts and some of our local partners for the first Google Enterprise Roadshow in India. Themed around 'The Future of Work', the roadshow explores how local companies are embracing Google's enterprise cloud computing solutions to improve company-wide communication,

Posted by Matt O'Connor, Product Manager, Google Postini Services Team We're constantly working to protect our users from email spam and phishing attempts. Some examples of these efforts include educating users about phishing and supporting open standards for email authentication such as DomainKeys Identified Mail )DKIM( in Google Apps - which can help reduce the risk of phishing attacks sent from spoofed domains.

Posted by Anya Kuligina, Product Marketing Manager, Google Enterprise Apps More than three million businesses have made the switch to Google Apps and are now able to enjoy tremendous collaboration boosts, not to mention saving a penny or two! In this webinar , we invite you to learn how one customer is using Google Apps to communicate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.

Posted by Yong Zhu, Software Engineer As a business person, you probably share the frustration of struggling to gain access to corporate tools and portals that are essential to your job. This can be as simple as a budgeting tool your predecessor forgot to extend your ownership privileges to, login details for a corporate microblogging account, or maybe even the control panel you need to access to customize your website search engine.

Posted by Ronan Hughes, CTO at Directski.com Editor's Note: Next up, we'd like to welcome Ronan Hughes, Chief Technical Officer at Directski.com , a web based travel company based in Dublin. Directski.com migrated to Google Apps six months ago with the help of Google Apps Authorized Reseller, Baker Security & Networks . Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map or test drive life in the cloud with the Go Google Cloud Calculator .

Posted by Grace Kwak, Product Manager )Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog .( Today we're adding two features that make it easier to customize Google Calendar. First, you can now change your default event length from the standard 30 minute slot. If you frequently create 15 minute meetings, for example, you can now make 15 minutes the default length for all your events. This way, you don't need to click into the event page to change the duration every time.

Posted by Rajen Sheth, Group Product Manager, Chrome for Business Today at Google I/O we unveiled the first Chromebooks. These mobile devices are a new kind of computer designed specifically for people who live in the browser. Chromebooks are made for people seeking uncompromising speed, simplicity and security, while providing features that will delight the IT department, too. For businesses and schools, we're offering a subscription that includes the Chromebook,

Editor's note: Over 3 million businesses have adopted Google Apps . Today we'll hear from Marawan El-Asfahani, Managing Principal of Oxygen, a creative design agency based in Toronto, Canada. To learn more about organizations that have gone Google, or to share your own story, visit our community map or test-drive life in the cloud with the Go Google cloud calculator . At Oxygen Design Agency , we offer branding services, develop retail campaigns,

Posted by Matt Charman, Google Enterprise Product Marketing Manager WWF is a charity foundation that works with a number of partners to drive conservation and sustainability projects around the world. At any one time, WWF has over 1,300 projects underway in more than 100 countries. With projects spanning the globe, there had been a long standing need to provide a more interactive and collaborative environment to support these dispersed project teams.

Google Apps launched five years ago. Since then, we've spoken with many of our more than three million customers about how we can better serve them. Small businesses in particular often ask us to make Apps easier to adopt and manage. Today we're announcing several upcoming changes designed to address those requests.

At Google we're committed to opening up our cloud infrastructure so that others can benefit from our enormous computational power. Today I'm going to share some exciting details on our plans to make our cloud technology available for processing and serving geospatial data. Over the past six years, the way we explore the world has changed dramatically.

Two months ago, the Google Maps team launched Fusion Tables Protected Map Layers for Google Maps API Premier customers. With the Fusion Tables Protected Map Layers, developers and businesses can upload tabular data to Fusion Tables and display this data on a Google Maps API implementation. Join us for a live webinar to learn about Google Fusion Tables and how you can add Protected Map Layers into your Google Maps API Premier implementations. When: May 3rd,

)Cross-posted from the Google Docs Blog and Google Mobile Blog.( Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information - from email to web browsing to editing documents . Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why we're happy to announce the new Google Docs app for Android . With this new app it's easy to filter and search for your content across any Google account,

Editor's Note: We're pleased to welcome guest blogger Andrew Murrey, Vice President of IT Infrastructure Cinram North America. Cinram specializes in optical disc manufacturing, packaging, distribution and demand planning solutions for the home entertainment, telecommunications, and retail industries. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map or test drive life in the cloud with the Go Google Cloud Calculator . For more than 40 years,

Gables Residential, an Atlanta-based Real Estate Investment Trust )REIT(, turned to Google Message Continuity to supplement their Microsoft® Exchange 2007 email environment and minimize email downtime. Gables Residential owns, manages and develops property throughout Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, South Florida, D.C., and Southern California, contributing to a portfolio of over 38,000 apartment homes.

Editor's Note: Recently we announced the winners of our global Gone Google ad contest. Today's featured winner is Martine Bronner, Head of Marketing at ESSEC Business School in Cergy-Pontoise, France. ESSEC Business School was founded in 1907 and is one of Europe's top management schools with 4,300 students, 138 academic staff and 37,000 alumni. The school, known for its international orientation,