Bangalore: Google has launched 'Google Video for business', a You Tube like application, which enables the companies using Google Apps as part of their business operations to share videos within an organization without having to upload them to You Tube or other video sharing services. Business Users can upload a video to Google Apps and then invite others to view it securely without having to worry about messing with privacy settings.

"Companies can share training and how-to videos, customer insight or interviews, and other business announcements. These videos can be shared among individuals, specific groups, or entire organizations, making it easy to control exactly which people are able to access them. And from the viewer side, users will be able to search for any video they have been given access to, view the videos from popular browsers - "including Safari on the iPhone," claims Google.

Dave Girouard, President of Enterprise, Google, said "YouTube has enabled millions of consumers to easily capture and share video at an unprecedented level, yet corporate video has remained expensive and complicated. With Google Video for business, our customers get the ease of YouTube combined with the simple and secure sharing of Google Apps."

The application is available as part of Google Apps Premier Edition at no additional cost, according to the Mountain View, California based company. Google Apps Premier Edition costs $50 per user per year for a package of business applications that includes Gmail e-mail service, Google Talk instant messaging service, Google Calendar calendaring service, Google Docs program and Google Sites Web application.

Each Google Apps Premier Edition domain gets 3 GB of video storage per user account. A Google Apps Education Edition will debut Sept. 8 with a free trial until March 9, 2009. After that, it will cost $10 per user per year for faculty and staff to share videos with students.