Google Makes Android More Attractive For Google Apps Users With New Remote Capabilities

Just another step in Google’s efforts to make Android more appealing to businesses – an update to the Google Apps Device Policy application has added three new features to make your Android device more secure:

• Remote Location: Any Android 2.2+ device can be located remotely via GPS or by making it ring. The PIN or password can also be remotely reset.
• Data Encryption: Android 3.0 introduced data encryption, and now Google Apps users have the ability to encrypt this data remotely as long as the App Device Policy is already installed on the device.
• Google Apps Lookup: An entirely new app, Google Apps Lookup allows Apps users to find contact info for anybody in the Google Apps Global Address List.

These features will all be very helpful for business users, but hopefully we’ll also see them make their way to non-Google Apps users some time in the future.

Source: Google Enterprise Blog