Google's official announcements for Google Apps administrators, covering product changes, security features, and discontinued browser and mobile support.
HN commenters use it to find the original announcement behind a news story, such as Quickoffice removal or IE8 support ending, and one calls a repost blog spam.
The article mentions that Microsoft’s systems support silently forwarding email to a “shadow account”. Here’s Google’s announcement of the same functionality, theoretically only available to Google Apps administrators:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-api-released-google-apps-audit-api.html
Any significance to the timing?
Feel for you, and that's a big reason I chose Android. Ironically, DHH wrote about why he digs the core iPhone apps here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684433
P.S. Web-based Gmail for mobile apparently got some updates yesterday:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/08/gmail-for-mobile-now-smoother-with.html
According to another blog post, you can still "switch to it" for the next 30 days. So maybe sign up for paid and then immediately switch to free?
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-packages.html
good catch...that's last year's announcement. here is the IE8 announcement: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/supporting-modern-browsers-internet.html
Blog spam. Actual update is here: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/removal-of-quickoffice-from-google-play.html