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, 04 2010 09:39:53 +0100

Google will suspend Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) support for its Gmail and Calendar services later this year, the company said today.

The move will come at some point after March 1, when Google will start scaling back IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites. Google announced that decision on Friday, two weeks after the company admitted that hackers had breached its network and stolen information.

"We plan to stop supporting older browsers for the rest of the Google Apps suite, including Gmail, later in 2010," a Google spokesman confirmed today.

On Google 's no-support list along with IE6 are Mozilla's Firefox 2.0, Apple 's Safari 2.0 and Google's own Chrome 3.0.

In a tight economy, even casinos have to watch their budgets, but IT shops have to move fast to keep up with the competition, says Rod Luck, vice president of IT at the Cache Creek Casino Resort in northern California.

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With a tight budget, Luck says he and his staff are "pretty much just keeping our systems running," but he's made time to pursue a social networking and mobile strategy, and is ramping up an existing virtualization project to improve labor efficiency.

Luck, who has about 25 IT staffers to serve a 415,000-square-foot resort, notes that the casino uses Facebook and Twitter to connect with customers, and looking for ways to keep customers informed via their cell phones. A pilot project on the mobile front is allowing customers to receive text message updates when their restaurant table is ready, or to receive information on hotel room availability.

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