Google [GOOG] has announced that Gmail for mobile now works in 44 languages for users using the HTML5 version in the mobile browser on the iPhone and Android based smartphones.
The only language it was available in, right till yesterday, was US English. It is now available in the following languages…
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.
HP is building a webOS based tablet from what we understand. The only release date we have heard is sometime in 2011 which really doesn’t narrow it down too much.
Apple [AAPL] has posted a job listing that requests a Verizon iPad System Engineer. The location is in Cupertino, as expected, and the job role requires someone who has a technical background in Exchange, VPN as well as other enterprise solutions.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc has announced that the Gran Turismo franchise has now exceeded 60 million in sales since it first arrived in December 1997. The franchise has now been running for 12 years and 11 months.
We hear today that Toshiba is about to make a new plant that will be responsible for making LCDs for Apple [AAPL] products. The new plant will cost around $1.2bn and the LCDs it will manufacture will be small, perhaps specifically for the iPhone, iPod range of products.
Rovio has announced that they have hit 50 million downloads of the popular Angry Birds series of games.
The Nexus S is launching this coming Thursday over in the US. For those wanting to get hold of it, one of the options is Best Buy who have now released the details of what you can expect on December 16.
The T-Mobile G2 has dropped in price and is now available from T-Mobile for $49.99.
For those of you running Google Android 1.6 and above, the company has now updated the Android Market to a new version. This new version brings a few new features that helps you to purchase apps more easily although it’s not rolled out to all devices just yet. The release will be happening over the coming weeks.
Angry Birds Seasons is now available for those running a Palm Pre or Palm Pixi. The app can be downloaded from the App Catalog and costs $1.99.
Infinity Blade for iOS devices launched last week on December 9th. Already it has become the fastest selling app beating the record that “Cut the Rope” had set a few months previously.
