Google Apps administrators can now specify that all new user-created Google Sites will not display a logo at the top of each page.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the administrative control panel, click 'Domain settings' and then 'Appearance'. Un-check the box for 'Show this logo in all sites that users create', then click 'Save changes'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/collaboration.html#sites

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Google Calendar users can now access their accounts in Hebrew and Arabic, including a complete right-to-left user interface.

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

Languages impacted:
Hebrew and Arabic

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Calendar and click 'Settings' to change your language preferences.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37032

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You can now have voice and video chats with your contacts for free within your browser's Gmail window.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From Gmail, open a chat session with a contact, click on the 'Video & more' menu at the bottom of the chat window, then select 'Start video chat' or 'Start voice chat'. The first time you use this feature, you'll be prompted to download and install a small plugin.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/11/gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html

Google Apps administrators can now link their Google Analytics accounts to Google Apps, providing administrators with usage data for Google Docs and Google Sites.

Editions impacted:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the administrative control panel, go to the 'Advanced Tools' tab, click 'Setup Google Analytics' and enter the profile ID number from your Google Analytics account to begin collecting usage data. Sign in to Google Analytics to view and analyze the data.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-analytics-for-google-apps.html

The Google Docs API is now capable of updating the actual content of documents, sharing documents, and moving documents into and out of folders programmatically.

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

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Documents List Data API overview site to get started. (See link below.)

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html

Premier and Education Edition administrators can now use OAuth authentication to access GData feeds for users on their domains. Using OAuth, administrators can act on behalf of end-users without any end-user involvement.

Editions impacted:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Premier and Education Edition admins can enable OAuth in the 'Authentication' section of the 'Advanced tools' tab of the Google Apps administrative control panel.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61017

Google Apps Premier Edition now includes a 99.9% uptime guarantee for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Talk.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
All

How to access what's new:
This uptime guarantee is available to all Premier Edition customers.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html

Google Calendar now supports several new features:
– When scheduling appointments, you can now automatically find the next available time that works for all attendees and resources like conference rooms.
– You can add a secondary time zone to see when events take place if you frequently travel between time zones or work with people in other time zones.
– Meeting reminders can now be customized more granularly between zero and five minutes before an event.
– Google Calendar supports more keyboard shortcuts now.

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

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To have Google Calendar find the next available time for a meeting, click 'Create Event' and then 'Check guest and resource availability'. Add the invitees and resources (like conference rooms) you want to invite, set the duration of your meeting, and click 'Find next available time'.

To add a secondary time zone, click 'Settings' and then 'Show an additional time zone' to make a time zone selection that will appear on your calendar alongside your primary time zone.

Granular meeting reminders can be set per-event by clicking 'Event details' and adjusting your preferences.

To see a list of keyboard shortcuts, enter "?".

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging.html#calendar

Organizations using Google Apps can now start using Google Labs applications. The first three new apps are:

Google Moderator – Manage Q&A sessions from the smallest video conference to the largest all-hands company meeting.

Google Code Reviews – Collaborate with others to catch bugs in software you're developing.

Google Short Links – Create easy-to-remember links for both your internal and external web pages.

Stay tuned for more Google Labs applications from Google and other software developers.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Solutions Marketplace (see link below) to learn more about Google Labs and select the new applications you want to use in your organization.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewVendorListings?vendorId=1012

Users of J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones can now check email across multiple accounts (including both Gmail and Google Apps email accounts), compose messages without a signal, return to the inbox while mail sends in the background, undo recent actions, and work quickly with shortcut keys. The interface is also now available in 40 languages.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

How to access what's new:
Go to m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser to download the new Gmail for mobile for your phone.

For more information:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html