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The death of Google’s ActiveSync support, and what it means for you

Google’s announcement that it would be ending Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support seems to have invited a lot of criticism over the impact it will have on businesses that use Google Apps. Over the past few years, Google Apps in general…

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Get started with Email Retention and Compliance policies

What most users ask of their Email system is merely that it work seamlessly in the background, proving quick and easy access to colleagues, clients, and vendors. However, as and IT Admin …

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Productivity Apps you just can’t miss

While looking for ways to boost our productivity, we usually focus on the most popular methods – calendars and scheduling, to-do lists, and E-mail management. But you’d be doing yourself a disservice if you stopped at …

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Busting Email Spam on Google Apps

There was a time when spam was regarded as a major threat to the smooth functioning of E-mail. Apart from the network overhead caused by spam, other issues such as malware were constantly on network admins’ minds. Then there was …

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Email scheduling for Gmail, Outlook and Thunderbird

The reason why E-mail is the undisputed king of business communications lies in its convenience and power. E-mail is ‘free’, can be made secure (read our post on E-mail signing), and lets you send files and documents with ease. But …

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Enterprise 2.0 and the Newsfeeds madness

We recently came across a succinct post on the obsession with newsfeeds as a central enterprise social collaboration idea by Sameer Patel. Sameer says: — .. as the pendulum swings carelessly from people to people, to machine to people and …

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Email overload? Its email OCD!

How often do you check your inbox for new email? Is it of the order of once every 10 minutes? Also, do the following hold true for you: – You steal a peak at your inbox on the phone while having dinner with your folks. – You switch to Gmail …

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eDiscovery for Google Apps – from Postini to Google Vault

eDiscovery, which is the discovery of email, chat transactions and other electronic communication for legal purposes, made its impact felt in a big way in the recently concluded Apple-Samsung trials where Samsung was asked by a court to …

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Is Stripe over-dependent on email?

I recently came across this blog by Alex Maccaw on Stripe’s culture, and one of the things that immediately stuck out was their practice of using email for a lot of their internal and external communication. And not just that, …

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Gmail’s interesting auto label nesting behavior

Use Gmail? Create a label called “top/middle/leaf”: You’ll that Gmail created this as a single, “non-nested” label: Now create another label called “top/middle”: Something amazing just happened. Now you have a label called “top/middle”, with the …

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