Corporate BlackBerrys to get Google Apps syncing

If your office has given you a BlackBerry for work purposes, you may soon be accessing your Google Apps Gmail, calendar, and contacts via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

On Friday, Google announced that some functionality in Google Apps, its suite of premium enterprise-level applications, will now give company-issued BlackBerrys some push and sync functionality.

The Google Apps Connector promises to push Gmail messages within 60 seconds, and sync in-box actions like assigning labels and archiving messages. You'll also be able to search contacts from the company's global address list, a huge bonus for mobile workers. Synchronization between the Google Calendar and the BlackBerry calendar is one-way in this release, with Google's calendar populating your schedule on the phone. Google plans to include bidirectional calendar syncing in the future.

While the connector opens up syncing to some of the Google Apps, in this iteration it does not sync with Google Docs, the intranet site-hosting app called Google Site, and Google Video. You'll still be able to view content through the mobile browser, however.

The Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (download) is available for free to corporate Google Apps Premier and Education Editions customers, and must be implemented by an IT administrator.

Check out more details in this Google blog post.

[gggg sssss]

If you run a BES you most likely run Exchange ( otherwise why would you have baught a BES, ignoring the three remaining groupwise and notes users in the world) Any corporation that puts its informatioon up in the Google cloud deserves the leaks it will surely suffer, the outages that will loom large, and the possibility of its confidential stuff being disclosed on a skanks's court order.

Fear the cloud.

[eklectiqred]

amen!

[Seaspray0]

Corporate blackberry phones already receive corporate email and contacts. It's a company phone and for business use ONLY since the company is paying for it.

[jackhorrow]

Its great to know that after doing wonder for the employees of a business and the business.. google apps is going to become handy for the business owners.. it wud be nice
Jack Horrow
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