Hosted support apps

With a leap into software for mobile devices, Google has a chance to control the way you look at the Internet. The search king became popular more than a decade after PCs went mainstream and several years after the Web became a staple. Has Google done exceptionally well? Of course. But it"s one of many companies vying for eyeballs on the PC browser. Enter Android. Unlike the PC market, Google joins the contest for mobile access to the Internet with its Android software while there is still much work to be done. Many would argue Apple"s iPhone was the first mobile computing device to allow a Web page to look exactly as it does on a PC"s browser. The search giant announced the Android platform for mobile devices and the ***

Jotspot, the wiki service that was acquired by Google nearly a year ago, looks to be moving towards completion in the process of becoming a Google Application. As of yesterday, JotSpot is a Google Apps service code name, and its help and support pages moved to Google earlier this spring. Google Apps users with a hosted domain will also notice the logo for Google Wiki. While this service isn’t yet activated, it indicates that Jotspot is nearly fully integrated with Google Apps. Announcements regarding Jotspot’s integration are expected to come out at the Office 2. ***

I just got off the conference call on Google"s $625 million cash acquisition of security firm Postini, which executives said is expected to close in the third quarter. Basically, the move will enable Google to flesh out its Google Apps hosted applications, which include e-mail, calendar, instant messaging, Docs & Spreadsheets and Web page creation, with the security and government regulation compliance services that businesses need. There wasn"t much detail revealed on how the companies will integrate their products, but Google execs made it clear that Postini will continue to offer its services to other e-mail and IM providers besides Google. "This does reaffirm our commitment to delivering hosted services," said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise. ***