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• Google adopts single sign-on for more desktop, mobile apps

  Google Apps administrators now can use single sign on for a wider set of Web and mobile apps

• Google Offers 5 Tips on How to Maximize Your Digital Workforce

  Google's recent "Work the Way You Live" whitepaper lays out the company's vision for workplace productivity and collaboration in the modern digital age. The company asks in the paper, "Why shouldn't work happen with the same speed and collaboration we enjoy in our private lives?" Today's consumers are constantly connected, checking their mobile phones 150 times per day on average and openly sharing everything on social media. They expect their employers to empower them with the same consumer-friendly technologies they use outside the office. Google believes five basic principles separate the businesses that successfully deliver on this opportunity and those that don't.

• PwC to drop Office and Notes for Google Apps

  Around 5,000 staff at PwC in Australia will move to Google Apps following an agreement that will also see both companies combine their expertise to sell cloud, mobile and security services to enterprises.
  

• Google Apps seen as critical for Fairfax cost cutting

  Fairfax Media plans to let its Microsoft Office licence wither away while the company makes Google Apps its primary productivity suite, according to Fairfax Media CIO Andrew Lam-Po-Tang.

• Chrome replaces Windows at Woolworths

  Google Chrome OS devices will account for 85 per cent of business devices at Woolworths at the completion of the supermarket’s technology transformation, according to Woolworths acting CIO, Damon Rees.

• Woolworths to roll out Google Apps to 26,000 staff members

  Woolworths plans to roll out its Google Apps platform to 26,000 national and state office staff in the coming months, following its rollout of Gmail and its custom ‘Tap for Support’ app on iPads to 890 store managers in August last year.

• Retail chain sees value in Google Plus

  Retail chain Dick Smith will use Google Hangouts to share best practices among its stores and bring employees closer together, according to the retailer’s IT director, Linda Venables.

• Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users

  Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.

• Google services went down for 30 minutes in Asia this morning, CDN says

  All of Google's service offerings went offline in some parts of the world during an unusual half-hour outage that mainly affected users in Asia, according to content delivery network provider CloudFlare.

• Security roundup: Security concerns slam Google Apps rollout in LA; 760 companies and research institutions hacked?

  The Los Angeles City Council has voted to halt efforts to bring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) into the Google Apps services used by 17,000 other Los Angeles employees.

• Mobile devices, social media in 2012 means more work “around the clock”: Gartner

  2012 will be the year when Google Apps will chip away at the Microsoft Office market, as the rise of mobile devices and social media could make managing a work-life balance impossible, Gartner has claimed.

• 7 software makers to bring integrated, cheaper add-ons to Google Apps

  Seven ISVs have formed a consortium to integrate their Google Apps add-on products and offer discounted bundles, outside of Google's control.

• Taken over by aliens? Don't worry; Google has it covered

  Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world’s Gmail accounts to ransom. Or if aliens attacked earth and wiped California off the map.

• Data stored in the Cloud safer than desktop: Google US

  More enterprises will shift data into the Cloud as the service becomes more secure and physical data continues to be compromised, according to Google Apps US director of security, Eran Feigenbaum.

• Pittsburgh looks to save money with Gmail migration

  City moves to replace Microsoft Exchange with Google Apps