Posted by Lawrence Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile team

A recent article in the Evening Standard introduced a “new, peculiarly 21st century affliction” called nomophobia or “no mobile phobia,” which is exactly what it sounds like - the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Besides citing research that claims up to 53% of mobile phone users feel great anxiety when their phones run out of battery life or have no network coverage, the article also suggests ways to avoid nomophobia, such as carrying a charger at all times or remembering your most important phone numbers.

So are you a nomophobe? If you are, you’re not alone. I suspect that many of us on the Google mobile team are nomophobes too!

[via Official Google Mobile Blog]

As reported at NewsOXY.

Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of essential applications which enables businesses to effectively communicate and collaborate.

Salesforce for Google Apps is a new alliance that both companies hope will create the world’s largest cloud computing platform for building and running applications. Applications such as sales quote generation and business forecasting are now easy to build and test, and can be deployed by customers with just a few clicks via the AppExchange.

Salesforce.com, Inc., makers of the Customer Relationship Management suite, and Google, Inc. have announced a global strategic alliance to make it easy for companies of all sizes to run their business in the cloud.

Salesforce for Google Apps is a combination of the Google Apps suite and the Salesforce suite of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) which enables businesses to effectively communicate and collaborate without any hardware or software to download. The collaboration also opens up more development opportunities for developers and partners.

“Google and salesforce.com have always had similar models and philosophies about delivering innovations made possible by the Internet,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Salesforce.com was a pioneer in Software-as-a-Service and a year ago we joined them in this mission to bring the benefits of cloud computing to businesses of all types. Together, we are making more applications and services available online so customers can focus on building their core business rather than the applications that support it.”

Both salesforce.com and Google have noticeably altered the software landscape by delivering SaaS applications, for CRM and productivity respectively, over the Internet. As of Monday, this shift in the technology industry is being referred to as cloud computing, and salesforce.com and Google are well poised to deliver it to the enterprise.

Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of essential applications for business productivity including email, calendaring, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, instant messaging while CRM enables an entirely new way for business professionals to communicate, collaborate, and work together in real time over the Web.

Salesforce for Google Apps is available as of Monday to all salesforce.com customers at no extra charge.

Salesforce.com also will be offering Salesforce for Google Apps Supported, a package that includes integrated telephone end user support, unified billing and provisioning, enhanced platform APIs, added third party applications, and advanced Google Apps functionality, all for $10 per user, per month.

[via NewsOXY]