Google Toolbar 7 turns IE9 into mini-Chrome

Google has today released theGoogle Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer. The updated toolbar brings the strongest and best elements of Chrome to the world of Internet Explorer. Chrome is popular for its high-powered features including built-in Instant Search, and auto-translate. Google Toolbar 7 for brings those popular Chrome capabilities to the IE platform. For reference, this is what the toolbar looks like in action: According to the official Google blog post on the launch, Google Toolbar 7 has the following features:...

2 min · 339 words · Mark Stevens

Google Translate adds support for 5 Indian languages

Today, Googleannouncedsupport for 5 new Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu onGoogle Translate, bringing the total number of languages offered by the service to 63. Google said these languages are still in an experimental alpha stage, since Indic languages are different from English in several ways. It said: Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use theSubject Object Verb (SOV) orderingto form sentences, unlike English, which usesSubject Verb Object (SVO) ordering....

2 min · 423 words · Lori Howard

Google Translate comes to Google+ via a Chrome extension

Google+ just got Google Translate features thanks to a Chrome extension, the news of which wasposted on Google+ by Josh Estelle of Google and shared by Robert Scoble. Scoble says that the feature ‘works great‘ and allows the translation of non-English content on Google+. To translate a Google+ post, just click the inline ‘Translate’ button directly below each post. This will translate and highlight the text for you. The button will change to a ‘Show Original’ option to allow you to revert it back....

2 min · 376 words · William Torres

Google Translate Now has an iPhone App

Googlejust postedon its blog that the Google Translation app is nowavailable on the iPhone. Until now Google Translate has only been accessible for iPhone users via the web app. The native application is similar to the web app with a few improvements. Features include: Speak to translate: Talk into your phone and it can be translated to 50 different languages. It currently accepts voice input of 15 languages. Calling all Scaleup founders!...

2 min · 239 words · Joshua Tucker

Google TV app store coming soon. This is where it gets interesting.

It’s fair to say that at The Next Web we’ve beensalivatingabout the idea of getting some really exciting apps that integrate with TV viewing for some time. Ever since it wasannouncedlast May,Google TVhas seemed like the most likely candidate to deliver the goods first and now it looks like that’s going to happen. GearLivereports that Ashish Arora, VP and general manager at Logitech’s Digital Home Group, confirmed at the OTTcon event yesterday that a Google TV app store was on the way “shortly” and that “It’s a given that it will happen this year, 100 percent....

2 min · 266 words · Cassie Wagner
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