Google Sites now provides a simple way to track site usage, by integrating with Google Analytics.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Team Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Sign in to Google Sites, open a site, and click ‘Site Settings’. Navigate to the settings page for ‘Other stuff’, check the box for ‘Statistics’, paste your Google Analytics account ID in the box, and click ‘Save changes’. (You’ll need to sign in to your Google Analytics account to get your account ID.)

For more information:
http://sites.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92369

If you have an iPhone (or an iPod Touch), Google Apps is now available with a streamlined mobile interface, where you can easily bookmark a single web address and seamlessly switch between applications.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English, UK English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

How to access what’s new:
Bookmark http://www.google.com/m/a/your-domain.com from your iPhone’s browser. Be sure to replace ‘your-domain.com’ with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/mobile.html

You can now add speaker notes and embed YouTube videos in Google Presentations.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and click the speaker notes icon at the bottom right of the screen to add speaker notes. Click ‘Start presentation’ and then click ‘View speaker notes’ to see your notes.

To embed a video in a presentation, open a presentation for editing, click ‘Insert video’ and search for the video you want to embed.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Users can now customize the cascading style sheet (CSS) for their documents. This provides advanced controls for page design, layout and formatting.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Sign in to Google Docs and open a document. Then click ‘Edit’ from the menu bar and then ‘Edit CSS…’ to open the CSS editing window.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94168

Previously, your Google Apps email address needed to be the organizer or an attendee of your Microsoft Outlook events for the Outlook events to sync to your Google Calendar. Now, when you choose to do a 2-way sync or a 1-way sync from Outlook calendar to Google Calendar, all of your Outlook events will be synced to your Google Calendar.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
To download Google Calendar Sync, visit http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955

AuthSub is an authentication proxy service bundled with the Google Data APIs, which lets users gives 3rd party applications secure access to their Google Apps service data without having to trust those applications with their usernames and passwords.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
All

How to access what’s new:
If you’re a developer, visit the AuthSub documentation page to learn more about enabling AuthSub for your web applications. (see link below)

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForWebApps.html

Google Docs now lets you run advanced searches for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can search by document type, date modified, who the documents are shared with and more. Once you set up a search, you can save your search criteria to easily run the same search at a later time

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Sign in to Google Docs and click “Show search options”. After entering your search criteria, click “Save this search” to have Google Docs remember the properties for your search. To run a saved search, choose the search you want from the “Saved searches” menu in the left panel or next to the search box at the top of the screen.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

You can now export a Google Presentation to the PowerPoint (.ppt) file format.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and choose “Save as PPT” from the “File” menu.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google App Engine is a development and hosting platform that allows developers to host web-based applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine is currently available as a limited preview release.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Sign up for the preview release at http://appengine.google.com/a/your-domain.com. Be sure to replace ‘your-domain.com’ with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91077

Posted by Naren Manappa, Software Engineer, and Melchi Sundararaj, Member of Technical Team

We have come a long way from our first Indic transliteration release to our current support for transliteration in 5 languages — Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu — for a broader set of Google products. We are also happy to release our very first English to Hindi translation service. Read on to understand how you can use these services to create, communicate and search in your language, and more.

• Type in your language easily on our Indic Transliteration Labs page.
• Add the transliteration gadget to your iGoogle page.

• Express your views and create more content: Blogger.

• Scrap your friends in your language: orkut.

• Find information: Google Suggest in your language.

You can now also try out our brand new English to Hindi translation service, and the translated search feature that lets you query in Hindi, obtain search results for the translated query in English, and then see the Hindi translations of these results.

For more information on all of these, read our press release.