Google tackles China apps roadblock

In an effort to reassure business users of Google Apps in mainland China, who may be worried about continuity of service following Google's decision to stop serving censored search results from its Chinese search engine, Google is offering advice about how to improve access to Google's Web apps, reports InformationWeek.

The company says it hopes the Chinese government will respect its decision, even as it acknowledged that Chinese authorities could block its services at any time.

Although the servers for Google Apps, and now Google Search, reside outside of China, data for those services still needs to pass through the so-called great firewall of China to reach Google's users in the country.

AT&T hopes to encourage more enterprise use of the iPhone with WorkBench, an application that enables secure access to enterprise Web apps from their phones, writes PC World.

Business users can download WorkBench from the App Store and securely access Web applications including CRM or ERP software.

WorkBench, which was developed with Antenna Software, allows for mobile VPN access, over-the-air updates and remote data lock and wipe. It also lets users run multiple enterprise Web apps simultaneously.

Intel is expanding its AppUp Center application store for netbooks with support for its own Moblin platform. At the same time AppUp is being introduced into the EMEA region with local language and currency support, states Computing.co.uk.

The AppUp Center was announced at CES in January and is still in beta, but Intel said it is now including support for Moblin v2.1 applications in addition to existing support for Windows-based netbooks.

Applications for Moblin will run on the MeeGo platform when available, Intel said. MeeGo merges Moblin with Nokia's Maemo, both of which are Linux-based.