) Cross posted from the Google Lat Long Blog ( We're excited to announce a new addition to the Advanced Measurement Tool Suite in Google Earth Pro : you can now measure in 3D! Pro customers recently ranked Area Measurement as one of the most valuable Google Earth Pro tools, so we wanted to add more to the package. In a continued effort to mirror the real world, allowing you to lift measurements off the ground and extend them in to the 3D realm seemed a natural next step.

Editor's note : This is the latest in a series of posts on apps in the Google Apps Marketplace that have caught our eye here at Google. We'll do this every so often as we see things we'd like to share. Look for the label " marketplace highlights " and subscribe to the series if you'd like to stay tuned. Today, more than 3 million businesses and thousands of universities not only have access to Google's core suite of applications,

Editor's note: Today our guest blogger is Richard Ferrick, Network Administrator for Panama City, Florida, one of the first governments in the country to adopt Google Apps for Government. Join Richard for a live chat on GovLoop this Thursday, December 2 at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 6pm GMT. Panama City, Florida is a beautiful resort destination on Florida's Emerald Coast; our white sand beaches attract vacationers year round. We're also home to 37,

Editor's note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what's new and how your organization can benefit. Welcome to YouTube With more than 1 billion subscribers and 2 billion video views per day, YouTube is one of the top destinations for watching, uploading, and discussing video. Now,

Editor's note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what's new and how your organization can benefit. Welcome to Google Finance Financial market data is some of the most time-sensitive and important information that many businesses track minute by minute. Portfolios, stock charts, and up-to-the-second market news are all central to understanding investment options,

Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Small Business Blog As customers begin to recognize large productivity gains with Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of Google Apps , they frequently ask when they'll be able to use services like Google Voice, Reader, Blogger and AdWords with their Google Apps accounts. We've steadily added new functionality to Google Apps and recently added support for third-party apps ,

Cross posted on the Official Google Blog, Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Mobile Blog With Google Docs, we're always trying to make you more productive"and part of that means making it possible for you to get things done from anywhere, at anytime. That's why we're excited that the new documents editor now supports editing on your mobile browser. We're rolling this out over the next few days. That means that... You can work on that important memo.

Google's Deployment Lead, Alex Diacre, will be hosting a live webcast this Thursday, November 4th at 11:00 AM PT. Alex has been at Google since 2007 and has been leading the Enterprise Deployment Team in deploying Google Apps at businesses all over the world. Join us to hear from Alex and his team about exactly what you need to do to deploy Google Apps in your organization.

Editor's note : Over 3 million businesses have adopted Google Apps . Today we'll hear from PlayPlainIt.com and Medialcoate, two companies based in California. To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our community map or test drive life in the cloud with the Go Google cloud calculator . San Francisco moms and career women, Allison Howard and Laurel Kellam,

This live webinar will be held on Thursday, October 28 at 10:00 ET/15:00 BST . Register here ChemistDirect.co.uk, Europe's leading online chemist, provides more than 20,000 health and beauty products and prescription medicines on the web. Fast, relevant search and the ability for customers to easily find the right products is key to the success of Chemist Direct's online business. Join Mitesh Soma , )CEO & Founder, Chemist Direct( and Nitin Mangtani )Product Manager,

This week the Google Enterprise team is excited to be participating in the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. Thousands of IT leaders and CIOs from around the world have gathered to hear about the latest trends and innovations in IT, discuss issues facing their teams, and learn how to deliver more business value to their organizations. On Monday, Michael Lock, VP of Enterprise Sales,

Last week, we celebrated a big milestone for Google Apps for Education: 10 million active users . While a lot of the credit belongs to the school IT leaders and teachers who recognized the collaboration and learning potential of services like Google Docs, Google Sites, and school-wide Gmail, we'd be remiss if we didn't also mention the many partners and integration projects that have helped support Google Apps for Education.

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, that process more than 3 billion email messages per day. More than 50,000 businesses and 22 million users use Google Postini Services to protect themselves from a range of email and web-borne threats. Q3'10 spam and virus trends confirm that spammers are still hard at work distributing malicious content in new and creative ways.

Join us tomorrow for a live webcast with Mark Steward, IT Director at Baird & Warner, the oldest residential real estate brokerage in the nation. With 26 branch offices servicing more than 300 communities throughout northeastern Illinois, Baird & Warner provides a full range of services for consumers including residential sales, financial services, title services and home services.

)Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ( When I graduated from high school in New York, the Internet didn't exist. Teachers were preparing me and my peers for traditional service or manufacturing careers - jobs that didn't require advanced technical knowledge. Today's students are facing a completely different landscape; they're expected to enter the workplace fully literate in technology,

Editor's note: Over the past couple months, thousands of businesses have added their Gone Google story to our community map and even more have used the Go Google cloud calculator to test drive life in the cloud. To highlight some of these companies' Gone Google stories, we decided to talk to Google Apps customers across the United States. To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our community map . Based in Minnes ota,

Over the last few weeks, we launched some exciting new updates that make it even easier for business users to create and collaborate on to Google Sites, Google documents, and Google spreadsheets. In Google documents, we launched a new revision history interface which lets you easily see what changes have been made to a document. Changes are color-coded based on each collaborator, so it's clear who did what.

We started the Google Apps Marketplace with the goal of helping businesses find even more value in the cloud. Universities and schools are also moving aggressively into cloud computing for both internal infrastructure applications and apps for students. We have seen excellent uptake by education edition users of a wide range of apps, including Aviary , Manymoon , SlideRocket , SurveyMonkey , TripIt , OffiSync , and Sherpatools , just to name a few.

Back in May we shared details about a big change so Google Apps accounts can start accessing dozens of Google services beyond the core suite of messaging and collaboration apps. This change will let users access many new services such as Blogger, Reader, Google Voice and calling-in-Gmail )US only(, Picasa Web Albums, AdWords and iGoogle from their Google Apps accounts. This big improvement addresses 9 of the top 20 requests from customers in one fell swoop,

Editor's note: Over the past couple months, thousands of businesses have added their Gone Google story to our community map and even more have used the Go Google cloud calculator to test drive life in the cloud. To highlight some of these companies' Gone Google stories, we decided to talk to Google Apps customers across the United States. Check back each week to see which state we visit next.