Google Sites available

Google Sites lets users instantly create collaborative workspaces to share all kinds of information, including attachments and content from other Google applications.

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

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Sites and click 'Create a site' to get started.

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

Gmail adds support for one new language

Gmail now supports Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Malay

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

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

Google Docs adds support for two new languages

Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Hebrew and Arabic are also supported for documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

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

Languages impacted:
Arabic and Hebrew

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

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

Team Edition available

Now employees and students can bring Google Apps to their businesses and schools without burdening their IT departments for support. Team Edition includes Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk.

Editions impacted:
Team Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Employees and students who aren't already using Google Apps can visit the Team Edition homepage to sign up with their work or school email address.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/business/index.html

Google Message Security and Compliance available

Administrators can now add security and compliance services to their existing messaging solutions, even if they don't use Google Apps for Gmail. Inbound message filtering for spam, virus and phishing protection is available, as are outbound message policy controls and long term message archiving for compliance purposes.

Editions impacted:
Message Filtering, Message Security and Message Discovery

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps Security and Compliance homepage to learn more. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/index.html

Google Spreadsheets adds interactive forms and frozen rows and columns

Users can set up and share online forms where form submissions automatically get fed into a Google Spreadsheet. Users can also freeze rows and columns to prevent them from scrolling off the page.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a spreadsheet and click the 'Share' tab. Select the option to invite people 'to fill out a form'. From there, configure your form and send it out to your list of recipients. To freeze a row or column, drag the row or column bar to the point where you want your spreadsheet to be frozen.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=87809
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=87809