Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:02 pm

Google Apps gain 24/7 telephone support

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): The business and Education versions of Google Apps, a customizable collection of Web applications, is gaining 24/7 telephone support. The package contains various apps including Google Docs and Gmail and costs $50 per user, per year, or $5 per user, per month. “To improve the experience of our customers, we now provide [...]

Facebook: Traffic up 60 percent

Cambridge (ip-192.com): Facebook is asking its 500 million plus users to set the social networking site as their browser homepage.  Some accounts already display a button "Make Facebook Home." The site generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US, according to Experian Hitwise, a global online competitive intelligence service. That’s a 60 percent [...]

F1: Firefox social networking extension

Mountain View (ip-192.com): A new extension to Mozilla’s Firefox browser allows users to share content through social networks. F1 will automatically shorten URL’s using bit.ly and insert it into tweets, allowing users to update their status on Twitter in one single step. For Facebook, the extension takes a screenshot and description of the page users [...]

Google Wave: Collaboration tool now public

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google Wave, a collaboration tool that combines email, instant messaging and rich content such as video, interactive polling, and maps, has been released to the general public. The availability of the online tool, which Google described as "a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration," was announced during Google's I/O conference [...]