If your office provides you a BlackBerry for work purposes, you may soon be accessing Google Apps Gmail, calendar, and contacts through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

On Friday, Google announced that some features in Google Apps, its suite of premium enterprise-level applications, will now give company-issued BlackBerrys some push and sync functionality.

The Google Apps connector promises to push Gmail inbox within 60 seconds, and sync in-box actions assigning labels and emails archived. You can also search contacts from the company's global address list, a huge bonus for mobile workers. Synchronization between the Google Calendar and the BlackBerry calendar is one-way in this release, with Google's calendar populating your plan on the phone. Google plans to include two-way calendar syncing in the future.

While the connector opens up syncing to some of the Google Apps, in this iteration it does not sync with Google Docs, the intranet site-hosting application called Google Site, and Google Video. You'll still be able to view content via the mobile browser, however.


The Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (download) is available at no charge to corporate Google Apps Premier and Education Editions customers, and must be implemented by an IT administrator.

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