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There are half a billion people who use Google Translate around the world. Now, the Google Translate mobile application can run on top of any other application, allowing you to translate on the go.

Google announced a bunch of new features in its new Google Translate app release, and you can read it by CLICKING HERE.

It is no longer a secret that mobile is starting to take over as the preferred method of internet browsing for most consumers.

As a result, we at KAYWEB are constantly trying to get clients to start thinking about a mobile-friendly version of their website.

Google has come up with a neat tool to check how your website looks on mobile devices - it is part of an initiative called GoMo. Check it out by clicking here.

If you want to go mobile with your web presence, contact our Business Development staff in Sydney on 1300-793-646 or email info@kayweb.com!

My colleague Narek Karapetyan blogged recently about Google's Android mobile operating system, suggesting the business model and development platform was more inviting to developers wanting to build mobile applications.

I remember reading it thinking "anything with such widespread developer, or geek, following, is bound to succeed in our industry".

This week, Nielsen has released data revealing that Google Android-powered mobile phones have outsold iPhones and Blackberrys in the United States of America over the last 6 months.

Importantly, the period in which this data was collected included a full month of Apple's release of its latest iPhone offering - iPhone 4.

The Nielsen report says:

Among all smartphone owners, Blackberry still holds the dominant share with 31 percent of the market, though its lead over Apple is declining. Twenty-eight percent of smartphone owners have Apple iPhones, compared to 19 percent who have Android devices.

I would like to come back to my point earlier and tie it in to Google's business model with the Android operating system.

If you win over the developer, or geek, community with your tech product, you are onto a winner.

Google made Android open to developers to build apps and easily make them available to potential or paying users. Critically, this came at a time when iPhone was taking record periods to approve iPhone applications as developers hung around for their good work to go live.

Blackberry owner RIM (Research In Motion) has even further restrictions on developers, and as a result, its app collection is the smallest of the Smartphone operating system giants.

Other than pleasing the geeks, Android does have other commercial benefits that iPhone and Blackberry do not.

Its 'open' policy extends to phone manufacturers to make phones with its intelligent operating system, with more apps than these hardware companies would ever imagine offering their consumers with their minimalist operating systems.

Motorola, HTC and Samsung are among the major phone manufacturers to adopt Android and as a result.

This 'open' model has Google on an upward trend with Android. It knows it is on a winner.