Submitted by: kirkland on Monday November 13th, 2006 at 08:30 PM EST

Google Inc. introduced on Monday the first upgrade to its business software line, offering organizations a way to give individual employees or group members a personalized home page.

The new personalized home page feature for organizations functions as a central access point for Google Apps -- short for applications -- a set of Web-based business software aimed at small business users, which Google introduced in August.

The Google Apps start page is a stripped-down version of the central overview that office workers see in Outlook from Microsoft Corp. or Lotus Notes from IBM. All three offer links to e-mail, calendar and other features.

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