Lost your precious iPhone? Misplaced your iPhone? Not to worry! Find My iPhone will help you locate your precious iPhone in just a few clicks!

Find My iPhone uses Global Positioning System(GPS) to locate your iPhone, with the Apple ID stored on the phone, it makes tracking of iPhone as easy as you can imagine.

All you need to find your iPhone is Location Services enabled on your iPhone, Find My iPhone turned on, internet connection, a signed in Apple ID and of  course sufficient battery in your iPhone.

Q : How to enable Location Services and Find My iPhone?
A : Go to Settings > Location Services to turn it on

If you have the required steps done, go to https://www.icloud.com/ and do a sign in.
Choose Find My iPhone from the menu and it will lead you to the screen as shown below.

Fuctions and Uses :
Play Sound or Send Message :  Plays a sound(even in slient mode) and is able to send a message to the screen of your phone.
Remote Lock : Locks the screen of your phone,  provided you have set a passcode lock, otherwise user can just slide to unlock again.
Remote Wipe : Wipes all the content in your phone.

Now you do not have to worry when your iPhone is lost, try out Find My iPhone today!

Nowadays, web based software or software as a service gains in importance in businesses. Mail messaging, collaboration and web conferencing are essential in businesses. In 2011, this convergence, with increasing consumers looking at quick access and sync ability to retrieve business data with mobile devices. The biggest names in software, including Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS / Office 365, are now in the arena.

Google Apps

Google Apps brings “web based” approach to businesses. Google Apps is specifically targeting on premise Microsoft messaging and collaboration products — Exchange and SharePoint. Considering tight budget on low operation cost, Google Apps tackles this needs. Its future success remains to be seen.

Microsoft BPOS/Office 365

Microsoft launched the 2010 series of its on-premise enterprise solutions; it cannot afford to ignore the fast growing “web based” market. Microsoft BPOS is a refurbished and integrated online version of its on-premise solutions — Exchange and SharePoint.

As the competition is getting fierce, what are the pros and cons of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS, let’s check it out!!

1. Shared Document
   • Google Apps allows concurrent document editing but No Offline Access.
   • Microsoft BPOS allows offline Access and no concurrent document editing.
2. Contact Management
   • Google Apps generous mailbox storage is up to 25GB and has search engine & built-in chat video.
   • Microsoft BPOS features is similiar to Microsoft Outlook.
3. Calendar
   • Google Calendar has automatic reminders, mobile phone notification, syncs with Outlook, iCal and sunbird, offline access.
   • Microsoft BPOS can drag and drop events.
4. Database
   • Google Apps – none
   • Microsoft BPOS can sync with Microsoft Access but it is complicated to set up.
5. Online Word processing
   • Google Apps allows concurrent document editing.
   • Microsoft BPOS – none (expected to come later in 2011)
6. Mobile messaging
   • Google Apps allows push email, contacts, calendars for almost all major mobile devices.
   • BPOS allows push email, contacts, calendars, tasks for almost all major mobile devices.

Both Microsoft BPOS and Google have their advantages and limitations. I will choose Google Apps over Microsoft BPOS because modules are well integrated while Microsoft product (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, LiveMeeting) are complex software in their own right. The integration makes data sharing easy. However, talking about ease of navigation Microsoft BPOS’s navigation is rather complex and confusing compared to Google Apps.

On the other hand, when budget is the main factor, I will choose Google Apps as its features are similiar to BPOS. This is also favorable when employees are constantly on the move (For example, property agents, financial advisor, etc). Hope this helps.

Google Apps is a reliable and secure web-based tools hosted by Google. It offers simple and powerful communication and collaboration tools for any size of business. Generally Google Apps offers wide range of application such as Messaging applications, Collaboration Application as well as business application.

What are the advantages of using Google Apps?

1. Google Apps helps business save cost

Google Apps is web-based messaging as well as collaboration apps. It’s require no hardware or software and free of administration. It’s totally save money, why not?? Want to see to see how much you could save with Google Apps compared to Microsoft Exchange 2010? Estimate savings.

2. Google mail offer 25GB storage

Each employee gain 25 GB for Google mail Storage as well as built-in Google-powered search for your inbox, accessible anywhere, Google mail spam filtering helps you stay focused on what’s important.

3. Mobile email, calendar and IM access

Google Apps supports over-the-air mobile access on smart phone such as BlackBerry devices, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and it is totally free of charges. Nowadays people are mobile, especially those people need to spend their time outside, they still can access their email, calendar, IM using mobile, it’s really convenience and flexible.

4. Encourage collaboration

Google Apps offers wide range of feature such as:

4.1 Google calendar

Web-based calendar application enables employees to work together efficiently and helps minimise cost.

4.2 Google Docs

Web-based documents, spread sheets, drawings and presentations that let users edit the same file at the same time. It’s real time and this allows employees get the latest version.

4.3 Google Group

Google Groups can be used as mailing lists and to share calendars, docs, sites and videos easily with colleagues.

4.4 Google Video

Google securely hosts and streams your videos, so employees don’t need to share videos over email.

5. Security

Google’s security team, including world’s foremost expert in information system, application as well as network security are focused on security of your information.

• Controls, processes and policies that protect data in our systems have successfully completed a SAS 70 Type II audit.
• Google Apps offers 99.9% Service Level Agreement, so you can be confident that employees will have access whenever they need it.
• Google Apps is the first cloud based messaging and collaboration suite to achieve FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) certification indicating that the General Services Administration has reviewed and certified their security processes and documentation.

6. 24 hours  Google Apps customer support

Google Apps customer support is available for administrator 24/7. Support includes Phone, email as well as self-service online support.

Would you consider migrating to Google Apps?
Changing whole applications to Google Apps might cause some uncomfortable feeling for those first timers. However, company participation in holding training is required to enhance their knowledge in using Google Apps application and features inside.
Google Apps has been proven that it helps company from all sizes from small, medium, even large to save time and money and it has been proven they work together securely, reliably and it’s scalable.