Google Sync for your BlackBerry

Synchronize your contacts. Get your Gmail contacts quickly and easily to your BlackBerry smartphone. With Sync, you can have access to your address book at any time and place that you need it.

Get calendar alerts. Using your BlackBerry smartphone's native calendar, you can now access your Google calendar even when you don't have network coverage, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration. It automatically runs in the background, so you can attend to other tasks and still be reminded of your appointments.

Always in sync. Your calendar and contacts stay synchronized whether you access it from your computer or your phone. You can add or edit contacts or calendar entries right on your BlackBerry smartphone or on your Google account on the web. Synchronize one or many calendars at the same time.

Is Cloud Computing the Future

eWeek has an interresting artlice on the decsion of Serena Software to replace its Microsoft Exchange with Google Gmail. Read complete story here. Serena Software expects to save $750,000 per year by shedding Microsoft Exchange Server in favor of Google's Gmail application for its 800 employees.

This is a very intersting move and as more and more organizations look to cut IT costs. Exchange has the loin shatre of the email server market and isn't goign away any time soon. However more and more people are moving to web based services. I have a Google GMail account that over the last several months I forward my personal email accounts to have one central location to archive all of my emails.

I use a Blackberry and an iPhone to access gmail and it works great for what I need.

Google Gmail Becoming More Enterprise-Friendly