Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Now available with Google Apps: Google News



Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.



Welcome to Google News
Staying up to date on all the day’s news is a challenge – even when that news might be absolutely critical to your business. Missing a story could mean missing an opportunity. That’s why we’re pleased to make Google News available with your Google Apps account.

Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together, and displays them according to your personalized interests. You can customize Google News with topics you are interested in, and even indicate which publications you’d like to prioritize in your personalized news stream.


Google News will surface stories relevant to the interests you indicate and will aggregate articles from multiple news sources covering that story. For example, if a story about changes in the funding environment for small businesses shows up in your news stream, you’ll be able to click through to coverage from a variety of news outlets in order to get a spectrum of views on the issue.

Now that Google News is integrated with Google Apps, sharing the articles that you discover with coworkers is easier than ever. You can email a link directly from the News interface with address autocomplete linked to your existing Contacts list.


And Google News even makes it easy to stay current on the latest developments in the news when you’re away from your desk. When you connect to Google News on your smartphone with your Google Apps account, you will find an experience optimized for viewing on your mobile device and get the same personalized stream of news you see in the full browser version.


Now you can make the most of those spare minutes between meetings or the transit time on your morning commute by reading the latest news, complied and organized just for you.

Learn more and get started
Google News can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.

For answers to specific questions you can visit our Help Center or you can follow the latest updates on our product blog.




Note: Google News may not be available in all areas.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Guys and Girls,

    I really appreciate your efforts "unifying" the logins among google services. I do have a problem thou :)

    While I understand that an administrator shouldn't see which applications a google apps account used before this step I'd love to see something like: "Hey your account is being migrated these services (...) are associated with your account and you need to migrate them to a new gmail account to use your google apps account there"

    That means a google apps user should see a list of all services that prevent him/her from migrating regardless of where he/she logs in.

    Please, please could you implement something like this. It would make the migration so much easier since a user can immediately take care of the "problems" without searching thru all google services. This would allow to migrate faster and with less hassle or support calls.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for sharing your feedback with the Google Enterprise team. We will respond to open issues addressed in Comments with future posts on this blog. We appreciate your interest in Google Enterprise.