pcworld.com — With the help of an Australian partner, Google is close to landing a contract to support 1.3 million students with Gmail. The deal for student e-mail accounts at public schools and colleges in New South Wales is not quite finalized. But it is expected to be worth roughly AU$9.5 million (US$9.05 million) over a three-year period with an optional
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joshualamgroupJun 25, 2008
When you go to the Google Apps Editions Comparison graph:<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html">http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editio ...</a>
cdigioiaJun 25, 2008
It's about $8/student - and this way, I *assume* there's more guaranteed service, and a customized @*whatever school* email address. I don't know, seems worth $8.
mtheoryxJun 25, 2008
Who's to say the only benefit is email? There are tons of other apps and services. Perhaps this is the start of Google making its way into higher education in a huge way.Yet again, another player to watch out for. First Apple in education, now Google.
izhangJun 26, 2008
I wish UF would do this. They recently disabled forwarding for their damn webmail system so I can't even automatically forward emails to gmail.
agretJul 4, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/Encrypt_and_sign_Gmail_messages_with_FireGPG_2">http://digg.com/software/Encrypt_and_sign_Gmail_me ...</a>