Yahoo! vs gMail
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Google is committed to making education and information accessible to one and all. Google has come up with Google Apps Education Edition that would help bridge communication gaps and bring together the entire campus community on one platform. Organizing knowledge resources is essential in making it more easily available to all. Google apps are universally accessible. On Gmail interface, students and faculty can come together, interact over IM’s, add meetings and classes to their calendars, send and receive mails and much more.
With Google apps students can stay in touch wherever they are. When you go home for the summers you don’t have to get disconnected from the campus world. Google apps let’s you have access to your emails, calendar, contacts, and IM’s anywhere you go. Even on campus students are spread all over the place – libraries, cafeteria, dorm, lab, and classroom. You have access to your emails and contacts all the time. Even after graduation you need to stay in touch with old pals and faculty. You can easily go that with Google apps. Nowadays more and more schools and universities are making use of Google apps for education. The school has to make a Start Page. This Start Page would be the central platform for all the users, be it students, staff or faculty, where they can check their emails, calendars and contacts and access relevant information or content provided by the school or even search the web.
Google Apps are innovative tools provided by Google that can help small business firms, Non-Profit Organizations, Corporate houses and Educational institutions in their day to day functioning and also help the take the organization to the next level. Many schools and universities are already making use of Google Apps to facilitate better co-ordination among students, staff and faculty. For small business firms it helps improve collaboration and communication among employees and helps them work faster and more efficiently. Google helps non-profit organizations with its apps at no cost to allow them to function properly without being tied down by their limited means.
The Google Apps suite includes tools like Gmail, Gtalk, Google Docs, Google Calendar and the newly added Google sites. Gmail is a great tool for sending and receiving web mails in an instant from anywhere in the world. Gmail also offers a mail storage capacity of 25GB. This means you can store endless number of mails for a very long time. You can search your mails quicker when you are using Gtalk without having to ransack your entire mailbox. You can also search the web through your Gmail. Gmail also has spam filtering facilities. Spam Filtering ensures that your inbox does not get choked by unwanted content. Gmail comes with inbuilt chat and calendar also.