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Google Apps Marketplace opens for business, for business

Google’s certainly made some enterprise inroads with Google Apps, and now it’s opened the door for other cloud-based service providers to build on that success: it’s launching Google Apps Marketplace to sell third-party web apps that integrate with the Apps suite. The apps are sold as a subscription, with both monthly and annual pricing, and the billing is all handled by Google. Since it’s all targeted at the enterprise, the apps themselves are pretty dry — we’re talking notables like Intuit Online Payroll, eFax, and TripIt — but it’s pretty easy to see how Google could build a similar consumer-level marketplace into Gmail and Google Calendar sometime in the future. And then? Skynet. Video after the break.

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Google Apps Marketplace opens for business, for business originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon currently experiencing nationwide data outage

Did you look at your Verizon Droid minutes ago and wonder why you hadn’t gotten any emails within the last few minutes? I did. I just marked it up as the start of a good day, but apparently I was exactly wrong. Verizon’s data network is down and my Gmail inbox is full. Damn.
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Verizon Wireless nationwide BlackBerry outage

Looks like Verizon Wireless is the latest mobile carrier to suffer from an outage – this time with their slew of BlackBerry devices, and it is a rather huge issue since this outage is of seemingly nationwide proportions, although there are still folks in various pockets of civilization Stateside that can still retrieve and send their email over BlackBerry. Verizon does not know when the situation will be corrected, so the only thing you can do now is keep your fingers crossed that all will be fixed shortly. In the meantime, the world still goes on even though you receive your email a fraction slower than push over your Gmail account.

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Blackberry BIS 3.0 out next week?

Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) is the platform that connects RIM devices to the web, without going through a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES). BIS is used by wireless carriers, while BES is used by corporations. Anyway, version 3.0 of BIS is rumored to come out next week, according to Blackberry fan sites. If you are a GMail user, things will be much better as BIS 3.0 has better email sync, including label support. A later 3.1 version will be even more Google-friendly, with Calendar sync (support for Yahoo and Hotmail is also rumored). Hopefully, more improvements will happen, but at the moment, that’s all we have on the rumor mill.

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LG GT540

[MWC 2010] We have seen the LG GT540 when it was launched at CES in January, but no official pricing was disclosed at the time. Targeted to the first-time smartphone users, the Android-powered LG GT540 is optimized for entertainment and social web usage via LG proprietary SNS Manager. It will be available in 4 colors and will retail in Europe starting from May 2010 for 300 Euros without a plan (France). We will update the article with the US availability and pricing soon.

Features include:

• - Android 2.0
• - video playback, support DivX and WMV
• - 3 megapixels camera
• - up to 32 Gb microSD
• - Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail and YouTube
• - Android Market

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Seattle eager for Google fiber, other cities apt to fall in line

Talk about rapid response. Just a day or so after Google blew a few minds by announcing its plans to serve 1Gbps internet to a select group of communities, Seattle mayor Mike McGinn has come forward and confessed that the Emerald City is ready to accept said offer. ‘Course, we shouldn’t be shocked to hear that one of the most educated and wealthy cities in North America — as well as (almost) being home to Microsoft — is up for a little fiber action, but it’s certainly interesting to see just how willing the local government is to share its resources with Gmail’s creator. We’re guessing that other tech-savvy cities throughout the US will be jumping in line as well, so if you’d like to be one of the first, now might be a fantastic time to ping your own mayor and get him / her on the ball.

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Iran bans Gmail, tells citizens to use homegrown e-mail service

Today may look like February 11 to you and I, but to Iranians it’s 22 Bahman, the anniversary of the declaration of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It’s sorta analagous to the 4th of July here in the U.S., in that it commemorates the “birth,” so to speak, of the country. As such, there’s massive pro- and anti-government demonstrations going on in Tehran. Fun stuff to observe from a safe distance away. The country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who’s really more of a figurehead than anything else, declared, among other things, that the country is now a “nuclear state,” and that it will treble its production of enriched uranium. The country’s telecommunication agency has also used the event to announce the banning of Gmail, while simultaneously encouraging citizens to move to its officially supported e-mail service, mail.ir.

Google Buzz unveiled

As expected, Gmail has a brand new toy for us to play with – Google Buzz. Google Buzz is a brand new way to start conversations about stuff that interests you, while sharing various updates such as photos and videos with your family and friends among others. Since Buzz is already incorporated into Gmail itself, there is nothing to do on your part to make sure everything runs fine. Bear in mind that at time of publishing, Google Buzz might not appear in your Gmail since Google is still in the process of rolling it out worldwide. Sharing information is also made painless and easy, since all responses will be sent by Buzz directly to your inbox in real-time. If you can’t be in front of your computer all the time, fret not. Google Buzz is also available on selected cellphones/smartphones. Are you buzzing with excitement?

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If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present

Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they’ve never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. Yes, they have Orkut and OpenSocial, but no one actually uses them. Okay, some people use them, but not in the meaningful social ways that people use Facebook or even Twitter. Today, Google may have just solved their social problem.

Google Buzz is easily the company’s boldest attempt yet to build a social network. Imagine taking elements of Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and shoving them together into one package. Now imagine covering that package in a layer that looks a lot like FriendFeed. Now imagine shoving that package inside of Gmail. That’s Buzz. If Google Wave is the future, Google Buzz is the present.

Google Buzz takes mobile location services to the next level

Google just announced that it’s bringing some serious location-based integration to its services, all centered around the new Buzz social networking tool built into Gmail. Google’s going to do location better than the usual latitude / longitude coordinates — it’s able to snap those to actual place names and then take context-aware actions depending on where you are. The new location services is integrated into the main mobile Google.com search page and the new buzz.google.com page for the iPhone and Android, and into maps for Android, S60, and Windows Mobile. Buzz is rolling out starting today, and it should hit everyone within “the next few days.”

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Google flexes muscles against social networks

Google isn’t going to let the popularity of social networking just pass by them without doing anything about it – word has it that the Internet search giant is taking on Facebook and Twitter on their own turf, thanks to a new module in Gmail which can stream media and status updates of online friends. Hmm, this module more or less resembles a Gmail Labs feature that can be enabled or disabled at the account holder’s discretion. Some might not say that this feature is worthy enough to be a rival since Google has already integrated Twitter updates in its search, but it could be a stab at Facebook considering Facebook is already mulling over plans to introduce their own email service.

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Google Hosting A Special Event On Tuesday

Reports are coming in that Google is sending out invitations to a special event on Tuesday at the company’s Mountain View, California campus. Details aren’t abundant just yet, but apparently “some new product innovations” are promised at the event. It’s speculated that Google will be launching a Twitter-style status update system for Gmail, which would provide a real-time feed of information from contacts. Would you want to use a Twitter-like service from Google? Another possibility is that there would be an Andriod announcement, possibly Android 2.1 for other devices. Do you have any other suggestions as to what Google might be announcing?

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