Google has announced the latest addition to its Google Labs Project, Google Goggles.

This new Google Goggles feature, which follows from the original function that Google Goggles allows you to photograph and search (click here for blog), now allows you to use your Android phone to translate text that you photograph.

Basically, you:

1) Take a picture of some text (e.g. foreign language menu)
2) Google Goggles translates it into your desired language

Google Goggles mobile translation is another outstanding innovation from the scientists and engineers at Google!

Please see video demo below:

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Google calls its new Google Buzz "...a new way to share updates, photos, videos, and more right in Gmail".

Google Buzz allows social media users to collaborate social media profiles and social media uses into their email inbox, meaning within that one location, they can communicate in all their favourite ways.

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It was only a matter of time people realised that Google's web browser - Google Chrome - is very, very good.

Since its first release, Google Chrome was faster than all its competitors, including open source market sharer Firefox, which is developed by Mozilla and was earlier recognised as the fastest web browser.

Google Chrome was so much faster than Firefox that even amateur users were able to make that distinction. They realised that they could do nothing online faster than ever!

Firefox remains an outstanding browser with more extensions than Chrome, but I believe it is only a matter of time until it is overtaken by Google Chrome as the major competitor to Microsoft's much-maligned Internet Explorer.

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Billionaire geek Bill Gates joined Twitter last week, and within a few hours he had attracted over 100,000 followers. Now, a week later, he has over 340,000 tweeps (aka Twitter people) from the Twitterverse following his 140 character musings.

Despite being the founder of Microsoft and a philanthropist extraordinaire, Gates couldn't escape being given some search engine optimisation (SEO) advice for his new blog - thegatesnotes.com - by SearchEngineLand.com editor Danny Sullivan.

To most followers' surprise, Gates actually replied to Sullivan, stating:

thanks for the advice - the people who work on the site are on this now, should see improvements tonight...

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The Nielsen Company has release statistics tracking Global Web Traffic to Social Networking Websites, like Twitter and Facebook, and found that Australians spend more time per user on Social Media sites.

The Nielsen report reads:

Australia led in average time per person spent, with the average Australian spending nearly 7 hours on social media sites in December. The United States and the United Kingdom came in a close second and third, with 6 hours and 9 minutes and 6 hours and 8 minutes, respectively.

This report also revealed that the continuing rise of Twitter and Facebook lead to an 82% increase in global usage of social media websites in December 2009!

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