Google Apps

The book I read to research this post was Google Apps for Dummies  by Ryan Teeter et al which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Google is most famous for its search engine which is the most used worldwide. Google also does a lot of other programs most are free most are free & you are normally eligible to use them if you have a gmail or googlemail email account. The email account is normally free although there is a premium option available for a small amount monthly. Google docs comes in team, standard, premium & education versions. The team version doesn't come with gmail. The premium version costs $50 per month & comes with 25GB of storage, the education has many of the same features but only 6GB of storage & the standard version has limited functions & the same amount of storage. Google docs includes documents, a word processor, spreadsheet & presentations which is similiar to powerpoint. When you register to use google docs google give you a free website to store your work, this is cloud computing, if you want to register a domain name for the site that costs $10 per annum. There are many programs in the google collection among them google talk that is similiar to skype & allows you to place IM or VOIP telephone calls. All you need is a microphone & speakers.