Google is now sending an E-Mail, That it will phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ?as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. Recently they also published a blog entry on this.

Here is the complete Email :

Dear Google Apps admin,?
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ?as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010.  After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser.  We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience.  We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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Google Inc.
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Mountain View, CA 94043

Google has released a new software celled Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, With this release BlackBerry users can now use Google Mail, Calendar and contacts using the built-in BlackBerry Smartphone applications they already know and love. For example BlackBerry users can receive Gmail Mail Messages within the built in email client software.

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Last years Google has made commitment to Google Apps users that they bring more transparency and communication with customers. This might be a coincidence that Google has come up with Google Dashboard showing Google Apps status to their customers, a day after Gmail outage. Customers can use this Status Dashboard to check on the current service status of individual services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video for business. Administrators of Google Apps for their businesses, schools and organizations can also view the performance of the administrative control panel.

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Today Google has released Google Apps for Windows Mobile. Google Apps for Windows mobile gives an easy access to all Google apps to Windows Mobile users from their today screen. Windows Mobile users can now search with fewer clicks and with search history it make really easy to search over the internet with less typing. Pocket PC users can add the Google Mobile App to the start menu (Settings: Menus) or configure a hardware key (Settings: Buttons) to provide easy access from within any application on your phone.

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Google has released Google pack enabling Google apps users to access their favourite application including Gmail, Google Docs  and Google Calendar as desktop application. Google has included some selected software’s in Google Pack and users can add or remove Google pack software’s according to their requirements. By default Google pack includes Google chrome web browser instead of Mozilla Firefox. Google pack is a free application and can be downloaded and install on any Windows operating system.

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Last week Google has released the offline access of Gmail and now they have released the Offline access to Google calendar service to Google Apps customers. Google calendar offline access allow its users to view existing schedule and events but not allow to edit or print the calendar.

How to Enable Google Calendar offline Access ?

• Sign in to Calendar.
• In the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username, there will be a new ‘Offline Beta’ link. Click this link to start the offline synchronization process.

Google Apps standard users can follow these step to get offline access to Google calendar. Premier and Education Edition, domain administrators will first have to check the box next to ‘Turn on new features’ in the ‘Domain Settings’ page of the Google Apps control panel before their users can enable this option.

Google has added another layer of security to Google Apps. Google Apps administrators now can set the password length requirements according to their needs. The other thing is really useful is Google has also added a feature that will show the strength of password in a graphical manner.

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Google has released Google applications for BlackBerry. This is the first time when Google has made Google Apps made available on BlackBerry. To use Google Apps on your BlackBerry phone users need to visit http://m.google.com from their BlackBerry phones. Once the application gets installed BlackBerry users get easy access to Maps, GMail, News, and other Google apps.

• Fast Google search – enter queries without waiting for a browser to load
• Search history – easily access and amend your previous queries
• Google Suggest – complete queries with less typing
• Easy access to Google products for your phone – click once to download and install our applications for BlackBerry, and get immediate access to our web-based services
• Google Apps support – get direct links to your Google Apps Calendar and Documents/Spreadsheets (select Menu, Options, Use Google Apps Domain: yes, and then enter your domain name)
• Update alerts – learn about new versions of downloadable Google mobile applications and upgrade with just one click