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• ​Australian Defence College pilots Google Apps

  The Australian Defence College (ADC) is running a pilot program of Google Apps designed to replace its Open Student Network.

• Google adopts single sign-on for more desktop, mobile apps

  Google Apps administrators now can use single sign on for a wider set of Web and mobile apps

• Macquarie Uni ditches Gmail for Office 365

  Macquarie University will migrate staff email and calendars from Gmail to Office 365 by the end of the year.

• Google asks Australians to spruik Apps for Work

  Australians can get $15 for each person who signs up to Google Apps for Work based on their recommendation under a referral program launched locally today.

• PwC to drop Office and Notes for Google Apps

  Around 5,000 staff at PwC in Australia will move to Google Apps following an agreement that will also see both companies combine their expertise to sell cloud, mobile and security services to enterprises.
  

• Kingswood Primary deals with the iPad-driven data deluge

  iPads can play a great role in engaging students, but using them as an effective pedagogical tool in classrooms relies on having adequate infrastructure to support them, according to Aaron Cox.

• Google Apps seen as critical for Fairfax cost cutting

  Fairfax Media plans to let its Microsoft Office licence wither away while the company makes Google Apps its primary productivity suite, according to Fairfax Media CIO Andrew Lam-Po-Tang.

• News Corp migrates first users to Google Apps

  News Corp Australia has migrated its first major group of users to Google Apps. In an email sent to staff yesterday, chief technology officer Tom Quinn wrote that 180 technical team members had been migrated to the new platform.

• Chrome replaces Windows at Woolworths

  Google Chrome OS devices will account for 85 per cent of business devices at Woolworths at the completion of the supermarket’s technology transformation, according to Woolworths acting CIO, Damon Rees.

• Lonely Planet embarks on Google Apps pilot

  Travel publishing company Lonely Planet is set to launch a pilot of Google Apps at the end of this week. Around 75 employees will take part in the pilot according to Bob Topping, the company's infrastructure services manager.
  

• Woolworths to roll out Google Apps to 26,000 staff members

  Woolworths plans to roll out its Google Apps platform to 26,000 national and state office staff in the coming months, following its rollout of Gmail and its custom ‘Tap for Support’ app on iPads to 890 store managers in August last year.

• Retail chain sees value in Google Plus

  Retail chain Dick Smith will use Google Hangouts to share best practices among its stores and bring employees closer together, according to the retailer’s IT director, Linda Venables.

• Geospatial, big data will be used more strategically in 2013: Google

  2012 showed that the “consumerisation of IT” trend is no longer just changing the workplace culture of start-ups and small businesses.
  

• Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users

  Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.

• Google services went down for 30 minutes in Asia this morning, CDN says

  All of Google's service offerings went offline in some parts of the world during an unusual half-hour outage that mainly affected users in Asia, according to content delivery network provider CloudFlare.