Friday January 10, 2025

Google Apps Backup Service Spanning Gets Sexy: Launches All-New Look & Admin Dashboard

Austin-based cloud apps startup Spanning, which provides a backup service for Google Apps, just launched a new version of its service (Spanning 3.0) which includes a feature I.T. admins are sure to love: a health monitor for Google Apps. The new dashboard shows the status of a company’s Google Apps system, including problems, errors, possible causes and […]

Insync (“Dropbox For Google Users”) Gets Major Revamp, Goes Free

File synchronization and sharing platform Insync has been around for over a year now, and today, the eponymous startup has rolled out a totally revamped version of its “Dropbox for Google users”. Insync 2.0, so t speak, is more focused on Google Docs as ever, removed registration and sync limits, streamlined the user experience, and is […]

With Backing From Google Ventures, Humanoid Brings Robot Supervision To Crowdsourced Tasks

Workers of the world, get ready to meet your robot supervisors. A new service called Humanoid wants to turn you into a “robot-supervised army” that it will rent out for $5 an hour. It already has 20,000 workers lined up for today’s launch. Humanoid comes out of a startup called Speakertext, which uses a mixture […]

Google Apps Coming To Google+ ‘Within Days’; Company Taking A ‘Cautious Approach’ To APIs

Google+ SVP Vic Gundotra and Google Co-founder Sergey Brin took to the stage today at The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to talk about their new social network and what exactly they’re up to these days. Among other things, Gundotra touched on the success Google+ has seen since its launch, most notably that users […]

Backupify Snapshot Exits Beta, Adds More Features For Exporting Google Apps Accounts

Backupify, the startup that provides online data backup, archiving and export, is today releasing a new version of its Backupify Snapshot tool with additional features for Google Apps admins. The tool, for those unfamiliar, allows Google Apps administrators to extract and download the complete Google Apps account for a departing company employ and save the […]

Fresh From Google Fight, Huddle Turns On Microsoft With A Marching Band

Here’s a new one on turning against your former wet-nurse. Huddle was once a Microsoft BizSpark One company. But it’s business collaboration platform now competes with Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Indeed, there are rumours that UK-based Huddle (which now has a large SF office) was once yanked off stage at Mix ‘O6 at the last minute because […]

Spanning Adds Gmail Backup To Its Google Apps Backup Service

Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for other Google Apps products, including Google Calendar, Docs, and Contacts, but, says, Spanning Cloud Apps founder and CEO Charlie Wood, “Gmail backup has been, by far, the […]

Google Now Detecting Viruses From Its End, For At Least One Form Of Windows-Specific Malware

Google has just announced something pretty interesting, that it is using its own data to detect viruses and will as of today be using Google Search results pages to warn users if their computers are infected with a specific form of malware. Users infected with the virus, which is apparently rerouting traffic to Google and […]

Google Earnings Day! First, Enjoy The Full 2011 Stockholder’s Meeting [Video]

In just about a half hour, Google will announce their Q2 2011 results. After that, at 1:30 PM PT, they’ll do their usual Q&A. Thankfully this time, they’re going back to YouTube to stream the thing, instead of relying on Microsoft’s awful technology for such things. You’ll be able to follow along here, but we’ll […]

Google Getting Serious About Chrome Profiles, The Logged-In Experience

The meteoric rise of Google’s Chrome web browser has a side effect that I think a lot of people are missing. It gives Google, which wants to continue to be the center of the web in the face of a huge challenge by Facebook, the ultimate weapon. And while Google will never admit this, they […]