The folks over at Lifehacker have made a pretty good case for creating your own personal domain (yourname.com) for you and your family, and why it’s wise to integrate that with Google Apps  in order to maintain control of your email and the web applications you use forever.

We have to agree, completely. It’s what we’ve been doing in our household for years.

It’s a lot faster & easier than you may think, with no ongoing costs, and minimal up-front out-of-pocket.

Check out their post, and then contact us to get yours up & running quickly & inexpensively. We can handle all of the details for you, and answer any questions you might have.

If you’re among the growing list of small & medium business using Google Apps as your business platform, big changes have been coming for some time now, in the form of Google Unified Accounts.

Simply, Google Apps accounts were comprised of a subset of Google services - Primarily Mail, Calendar, and Docs.

If your Google Apps (@YourDomain.com) users tried using other Goggle services, such as Google Reader, or YouTube, they had to create a second Google account (often, ubeknowst to them), usually with the same email address.

In time, it could become a mess.

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It’s no surprise that we’re big fans of Google Apps, and as it makes great inroads in corporations of all sizes, it turns-out that governments are finding it a great, secure, and economical way to cut costs.

The City of Los Angeles is about to “Go Google”, saving LA taxpayers more than $5.5 million as opposed to other office suite alternatives.

To find-out how Google Apps through webgroupWest can save your company (or, government) a $bundle, contact us today!

Time will tell, but the team over at Google is doing their darnedest to help empower anyone with the desire (not necessarily the skill) to create their own Android apps.

Their new “App Inventor” is a product that’s been in development for more than a year, and promised to bring Android development capabilities to the masses. Check-out the info they’ve already made available, and watch the video for a quick overview:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADwPLSFeY8