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        <title><![CDATA['training wheels']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;This tool is like 'training wheels' for those who are resistant to move to a web-based email system.&quot;When I first read it, I felt that the article was implying that web based is better than local application.  To me, web-based (be it exchange or gmail) is good but not on the same level of functionality as local install.  Similarly, a yahoo/gmail app on mobile device is not as good as a web-based email or local install.Web-based email is only better, if 'portability' is wildly more important than other factors.perhaps, in a few years, I will no longer need a locally installed email application....  just not there yet.    IT may carrot or stick some folks off a local install, but there will be users that expect those 'training wheels' (as they call it) to be permanent.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[longyhoo]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:39:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There will always a risk. Which is the greater risk ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cloud computing have a risk on the connectivity.Local software have a risk on the lost of data.When connectivity down, you can always mitigate it to a temporary solution or use a temporary laptop and work somewhere where there is connectivity.When your local data is corrupted, the time needed to restore the data and lost of work will be greater lost.Local data can have expensive backup like daily backup in other location etc. Cloud computing can also have &quot;expensive&quot; secondary solution, sign up for secondary internet connection.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricky Tandiono]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:53:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lol, good one! (no text)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Litehouse]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:12:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cloud computing - not....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We are now using Google Apps here at work, including the nifty little Clouud Connect toolbar for Microsoft Office.  All very nice until BT decided to mess up our internet connection this week.  Four days with no internet, no email, no documents, not a cloud in sight.  What happens then, all you clever folks trying to get us all to abandon local software????]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[planetsteve@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:17:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Real Life]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Too many posts here with hidden agenda's.My small business reality, many emails (many domains) all routed through my G app's Gmail. Google app's is providing many REAL SAAS tools that make a difference to my business.Frankly Google rocks for me and my business.We haven't used Outlook for 3 years.... do we miss it NO.. I could go on without to much detail underpinning, however I can only tell you that all the calendar / email integration just works....and works well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[phil@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:36:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How much does a guest writer get paid?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. Co-located data. Your data may be sharing a &quot;cloud&quot; with lulzsec who are trying to tear down the walls between users on your co-located server. Or worse, you could be sharing a server that will be confiscated by the FBI due to some data be deemed illegal.2. Goolge does not focus on Enterprise. They have too many services and most of them are for consumers. They can't focus on any one of them long enough to give it all the attention it needs. Some services wither completely while others seem to be constantly evolving in to something else. What seems like a smart business decision today could be Google's next scrapped project.3. Why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free? Play it safe, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Their free services are good for some things but you want to invest your money in more solid technology. -Insert farmer colloquialism here-4. SaaS savings are a lie and a scam. What looks like a lower upfront cost will end up being a huge expense in the long run. The longer you stay on their service the less economical it is. Rates could change too. It is better to make an investment in your company than in theirs.5. Loss of control. Once you move to the Google model it is a slippery slope in to chaos. Suddenly the IT dept. is cut from the budget and your employees want to bring in personal devices because they can access their Google apps from anywhere. Now you have no control over the integrity of the devices used to connect and not only is policy enforcement out the window but so is security. All it takes is one user with one botnet.6. Chromebooks. The next step from Google apps is to deploy Chromebooks. They are new and untested. I don't believe any of the claims Google has made about them. You get what you pay for here.7. Googles privacy policy. Seriously, go read it: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/privacy/#1 on the list is &quot;Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.&quot; Does this mean that your Apps for Enterprise data goes in to their marketing database? Sounds like it to me.8. You still need a separate web host for your corporate webpage. Hosting comes with e-mail for your domain name. Now you're not using gmail What else can we put on this &quot;web host&quot; thing? Calendars? Cloud storage? (from the FAQ) http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/faq.html9. Usage limit:&quot;Each account can currently send email to 2,000 external recipients per day to prevent abuse of our system and to help fight spam. If one of your mail accounts reaches the limit, the account will be temporarily unable to send mail.&quot;If they get more traffic than they can handles they will inevitably have to throttle all of their users.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Spitfire_Sysop]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:58:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If it's not an advert, where was the balance?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If the subject line had been more precise as in upgrade from google free to google pay, or I'd noticed it was in the google in the enterprise blog ( I came in by newest), I wouldn't have bothered reading it, to be quite honest I wish I hadn't because all it did was irritate me.Why in Cthulu's name, would I think that an article promoting paying google in a google blog by a google partner, that mentioned (understandably) not one alternative wasn't an advert.How do I distinguish it from one?Because you say it isn't, fine I got it wrong. Exactly who's problem is that though, if that wasn't the objective?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Hopkinson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:57:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's Not In Just &amp;quot;Google in the Enterprise&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't subscribe to &quot;Google in the Enterprise&quot; so I know I'm not seeing this article in it.  I'm pretty sure I saw it in &quot;Tech Sanity Check&quot;.  Since you are surprised at the response, it seems pretty obvious that there's a disconnect somewhere. Perhaps TR needs to rethink its rules on replicating articles in several disparate newsletters.  This is a perfectly acceptable article in the &quot;Google in the Enterprise&quot; newsletter but in on that's supposed to be vendor-neutral, it reads like a well done press release/ad.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lazarus439]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:22:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It Sure Doesn't Look Like It]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In every Tech Sanity Check and some other TR newsletters, the second article is always flagged as &quot;Resource of the Day&quot; and it's always about Google, the great majority of the time, specifically Google Apps.  As has been pointed out, the newsletters do cover lots of vendors, but I cannot accept that just sheer newsworthiness make Google every day's &quot;Resource of the Day&quot;.If this is really a paid ad, fine, but it should be labeled in a way that says as much.  Something like appearing on the right side column along with the other ads.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:08:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I was overruled]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I suggested a blog on Tiddlywinks, but I was overruled for Google Apps - it's true we discuss the technology people actually use.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lost me]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What makes you think that the Editor's Choice has anything to do with you or what you have said.I will say, since you brought it up, that I have been very disappointed with you and your insistence that this blog post is an advertisement. I think Susan and I have both explained what the article was about and what this blog will be about in the future.Tony, I have great respect for your comments and you normally do a great job of keeping me honest - something I truly appreciate - but you are out of line here.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:21:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editor's choice ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On what basis are you making that choice?I mean it was a straw man argument for starters!Where did I say TR was playing favourites?Where did I say it was ethically objectionable for TR to have deal with google?And WTF is free advertising?Not to mention when did sense become common?I must confess to being massively disappointed in you.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Hopkinson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:33:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Usability and Maturity still a concern]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am trying to convince the organization I worked for to opt for google App, or maybe most of it is google mail and google doc. Google mail is good for its space and search capability, while google doc is good for collaboration.  Then there also google cloud connect to collaborate your office file.The current problem that I find google has : - Google doc is still not that fast and not that user friendly (if you compared with the microsoft office 2007 or 2010)- Google cloud connect, does not collaborate well if you have a lot of tabs. it kept on said failed and can only replace your version.These 2 samples already make it hard to &quot;sell&quot; to management to have google app replace Microsoft app and/or to make use google app to work better instead of doing the old ways of sending emails with attachments.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricky Tandiono]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:00:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[So it's an advert then, one of many]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Given how many we get around the content, do we really need or want the content to be an advert as well.Would a more objective assessment, surrounded by adverts have been a better approach?I can see the value of adverts to goodle and to TR, to us? Kool-aid is Kool-aid and much more common than sense...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Hopkinson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:21:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Weird, TR reporting on the hot properties in tech.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shills for ms, google, apple, cisco, you name it! Where does it end?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:02:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OK., I see where &amp;quot;upgrade&amp;quot; is a point of contention.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Due to the loose usage of the word versus version or service-level meanings. That's just one poor word choice, probably only viewable in retrospect when one is the author and didn't intend the loose version of &quot;upgrade&quot;. (See what I did there? I added confusion with a loose version of &quot;version&quot;, but I had already use &quot;version&quot; previously in the narrower software sense. This unintentional &quot;bait and switch&quot; didn't happen in the article.)Due to the nature of article titles, the wrong meaning is easily assumed . I did it. I was disabused of the notion after reading up to the first comma of the Takeaway.Gripping hand: Did susancline even write the title, as it appears? Not that it matters.Sure, the intent of the title could be made clearer, I think. When I first saw the title, I did not read the article for exactly the reason that the title is &quot;misleading&quot;, because it exists in a world of sensationalist titles.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:00:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gmail connects with POP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can manage all your email accounts in Gmail, just like outlook, using the gmail POP connector. I use one gmail account to run 3 gmail (2 are G apps) and one hotmail account. You can set the send from and reply addresses for each account within Gmail, just like outlook.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ICanFixIt]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:24:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Server Locations and Security]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Google will not reveal the locations of their storage facilities, including the country, for &quot;security&quot; reasons. In other words, you rolls the dice and takes your chances.As far as their encryption, you won't get any information there because of - again - &quot;security&quot; issues. The thinking appears to be that if Google reveals the type or level of encryption they use, it will provide information to hackers and crackers.While I cannot begrudge their lack of forthrightness in these days of cybercrime, I surely will not be using their services for my business. I prefer to know where my data is and under what security it is handled. Google's simple assurances along the lines of &quot;just trust us&quot;, do not sit well. Then again, your mileage may vary.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sperry532@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:29:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Something struck me at #3]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;This tool is like 'training wheels' for those who are resistant to move to a web-based email system.&quot;I have 6 email addresses which I used regularly. Plus, two more to throw to the spammers.How is one thinking I can manage all of them without a local installed tool capable to sync with the respective servers?How more time would I spend only logging off and on again to check all these accounts in a web browser?Unless one has a single email address, I continue to believe that the local email client is still highly needed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ScarF]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:38:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Enterprise Vs Small and medium businesses]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For Small businesses, the free product is fine. Things like Videos are only useful in businesses where there are enough people to make 1-2-1 contact tricky. Also re. uptime, 99.9% uptime is fine a for a small business. Factor in some of the downtime will coincide with 'business downtime i.e. out of office hours. So the % is even less.Google is unlikely to allow any significant downtown as it is just bad PR for the overall product/company.I've set up a few companies on the free account and it suits them fine. Most users don't even break 1gb of email. Plus things like IM are becoming more popular. The only tricky bit is migrating old email to the free account, but there are ways around this. On  a personal note, i'm not looking forward to the day when things have 100% availability, as its only when things go down that you realise what kind of organisation you have, + you have a bit of spice to life (i.e. moaners vs lets get things going again brigade).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[higglepiggle]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:00:15 -0700</pubDate>
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