Google Apps for Work: 2 Million+ Paid Businesses and many new Features!

While Microsoft is shrinking its OneDrive Storage plans, Google Apps for Work has launched a recommended apps platform and improved its Inbox app, while announcing that more than 2 million businesses now pay for its program, and 3 Million businesses are using the Free edition of GApps for work. Which makes the total of 5 Million Businesses that have gone Google so far!

Google opened an online store – Five years ago – called the Google Apps Marketplace to help its business customers find third-party Web apps that complement Google Apps. The software Google is recommending has been reviewed by Google and a third-party auditor for security and ease of integration. Initially Google is singling out eight partners across five application categories:

• CRM: ProsperWorks
• Telephony: Ringcentral, Switch
• Project management: SmartSheet
• Document management: AODocs, Powertools
• Identity/Access management: Ping Identity, Okta.

In addition, Google reorganized its partner program under a new name, the Google for Work and Education Partner Program, to help partners sell services more efficiently to Google’s enterprise and education customers. Plus it partnered up with many organization to improve its Android for Work program.

Smart Reply: Inbox by Gmail!

Google has launched earlier this year a new Email App/Platform, Inbox. Inbox by Gmail is already assisting you with the next step, organizing your trips, and even suggesting reminders. But when you’re schedule is super tight, and the holidays are approaching, you’ll be getting tons of emails. you’ll need help.

Help is on its way with Smart Reply!

Smart Reply is a new feature added to the Inbox app, it suggests up to 3 responses based on the emails you get.

It will take care of the short replies and save you time. And for those emails that require a bit more thought, it gives you a jump start so you can respond right away.

So, how does it work?

Inbox uses machine learning to recognize emails that need responses and to generate the natural language responses on the fly.

If you’re really interested to know about it you can read more on the Google Research Blog.

In addition to this great feature, Inbox gets better now when you report spam, the responses you choose (or don’t choose – they won’t be marked as spam later on) help improve future suggestions.

Smart Reply will be rolling out later this week on both the Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play in English (Only for now).

New Whatsapp Features for iPhone and Android!

WhatsApp, the popular Facebook-owned messaging service, has started rolling out a new ‘Starred Messages’ feature for iOS users in the form of an app update. The feature aims to let users quickly access bookmarked messages including images, videos, or other content quickly.

WhatsApp users would now be able to ‘Star’ a message using tap and hold gesture. The message would then be saved in a separate new ‘Starred Messages’ tab. The feature is also available for WhatsApp Groups.

Starred Messages has been seeded to iOS users in the app version 2.12.7 and is likely to reach Androidand Windows Phone soon. The updated app is available to download form the App Store.

The more we rely on our smartphones for every facet of our lives, the more risk there is of losing important data if your phone gets lost, stolen or destroyed. Android already has some backup services built in, but the massively popular chat client WhatsApp has just announced a partnership with Google to make sure its 900 million users don’t lose anything important to them. Starting today, WhatsApp users on Android will have the option to back up their entire WhatsApp history right to Google Drive. The backup will include chat histories, voice messages, photos and video, and you’ll be able to restore all of that data to a new phone when you set up WhatsApp.

Unfortunately, as with many new Google features, this one will be coming by the ever-popular gradual rollout. This is a particularly long one — Google says the feature will become available over the next few months. Once it’s available, you’ll find the option in WhatsApp’s settings. Why it’ll take so long isn’t clear, so you’ll have to just start checking your app periodically if you want to take advantage of the new feature.

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Back to School With Google Docs New Features!

Just in time for School, Google has released some great features to it Drive Suite; Google has been spending the summer break creating new tools to help you Collaborate and Save Time!

Google Docs For Android

You can now make your research right from the Docs App on your Android device. Without leaving your work, you can directly search for quotes, images and facts and add them directly to your document. No more switching apps and multitasking!

Voice Typing Feature

Another great feature that saves you some precious time, you can now record some great ideas or even compose your entire essay without even touching your keyboard! (To activate this feature, Go to Tools and select Voice Typing) and its also available on Google Docs mobile app in 40 different languages!

Revision History has gone better!

The revision history feature is a great one already, but when you open a shared document with tons of infos, its hard to even find if there are any changes made to the document, and you’ll have to go and click to see the revision history. Now Google has made it easier to see changes made while you were away! You’ll just have to click that big blue button on the top, and that’s it!

New Templates for Docs, Sheets and Slides

A new collection of templates have been added to the Drive Suite, so you can focus on your content rather than the interface!

New Explore in Sheets

With the new Explore in Google Sheets, you now explore Charts automatically from your Desktop or Android App! Get a Glance:

 

Google brings Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ together into a 15GB shared pool of cloud storage

In its continuing quest to streamline its online services, Google brought three of its most popular goodies under the same roof. In its official Gmail blog, the search giant announced that, beginning over the next couple of weeks, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ will merge into the same 15GB pool of shared cloud storage.

The move by Google, allows users to allocate their available storage any way they like between the three services. An updated Google Drive storage page will be updated to show the usage of the storage space.

Google has done away with the old Gmail storage upgrade plans. New ones will apply for all three services starting at $4.99 a month for additional 100GB.