Google TV Remote App available in Android market

The Google TV Remote app is available today (click here from your Android device or scan the barcode below) but all features may not work until your device has received the update.

Scan from your Android phone

We are continuously listening to feedback and are excited to bring you more Google TV updates in the future. Please leave your feedback in the comments, on Twitter, or on our Facebook page. Don't have a Google TV device yet? Submit a video telling us why you should receive one and you might just end up with a 46" HDTV to kick off the new year right.

Happy Holidays from Google TV!

see also: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/email-delegation-granting-access-to.html | http://googletv.blogspot.com/2010/12/whats-new-with-google-tv.html

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Granting access to your Gmail account!

Hari Nidumolu, (Software Engineer) says

I use two Gmail accounts: one is my personal account and the other I share with my family (we use it to subscribe to groups like my children's classroom mailing list). Checking these two different accounts used to mean I had to sign out and back in to Gmail all the time. Not anymore. Instead, I can grant my personal account access to my shared family account and view, organize and send mail on behalf of our shared account.

We've offered email delegation for Google Apps accounts for a while — it's super useful for people who want their assistants to have access to read or respond to mail on their behalf. Now this functionality is available for anyone using Gmail. To grant access to another account, click the Settings link in the top right corner of Gmail. On the "Accounts" tab, you'll see a new section where you can "Grant access to your account." For example, below we've given hikingfan@gmail.com access to the hikingfanfamily@gmail.com account.


The account you add will get a verification email with links to accept or deny access. Once the account accepts and you've refreshed your browser or logged in and out again, you'll see a small down arrow beside the email address at the top right corner of Gmail which can be used to toggle between accounts — in this case hikingfan@gmail.com and hikingfanfamily@gmail.com.


Each account will open in a different browser tab or window so you can view both accounts simultaneously, all while signed into your primary account. When you send a message from hikingfanfamily@gmail.com while signed in as hikingfan@gmail.com, it will appear as being sent by hikingfan@gmail.com on behalf of hikingfanfamily@gmail.com.


Signing out of any one of the accounts will sign you out of all the accounts you're currently viewing, and, of course, you can revoke access at any time.

source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/email-delegation-granting-access-to.html

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Announcing the “I Want my Google TV!” contest

If you're like most people, you probably love watching YouTube videos on your computer. But what if there were a full-screen, HD version of YouTube available a channel flip away on your TV? Now there is, made possible by Google TV.

Google TV brings television, apps, and the entire World Wide Web directly to your living room...so you can watch even more YouTube, only now on the biggest screen in your home. And because it's the season of giving, the crew here at YouTube and Google are excited to announce a contest to give away 100 free 46" Sony Internet TVs powered by Google TV.



To enter to win, create and upload a video telling us and all your friends on YouTube why you're pumped up about Google TV. Winning submissions will be selected based on originality, creativity, entertainment factor, technical execution, and how well you explain why you are excited about Google TV and watching YouTube on Google TV. View the contest rules and full list of judging criteria here.

Don't forget to upload your video by December 22, and tag it with "ytgtv" so we can showcase your creations. Winners will be announced by January 20, 2011.

Good luck!

see also
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/12/announcing-i-want-my-google-tv-contest.html
http://googletv.blogspot.com/2010/12/announcing-i-want-my-google-tv-contest.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/email-delegation-granting-access-to.html

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Gmail Now available in 44 more Languages in iPhone & Android

Scott Eblen, Product Manager say's

There are many ways to get your Gmail on your phone. The mobile webapp version of Gmail (which you can get to by going to gmail.com in your browser) is the best way to get the most Gmail features on your iPhone or Android-powered device. Features such as search, stars, labels and threaded conversations all work in the mobile webapp just as they do in the desktop Gmail experience. Today, we're bringing the latest version of our HTML5 webapp to 44 new languages.

Before today, this new version was only available for U.S. English, but we're now expanding to 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.

If your phone's default language is one of those listed, go to gmail.com in your phone's browser and the new interface will appear in your language automatically. We've been rolling these changes out, so some of you may have already seen them. You'll get a bunch of new goodies including offline support, smart links (titles will appear in links for Google Maps, YouTube and Google Docs), the ability to add and remove labels, layout improvements and more—in addition to the existing features like starring, better threaded conversations and search.

This new version works for iPhones running iOS 2.2.1 and above, and all versions of Android. Go to gmail.com in the browser of your iPhone or Android-powered device to try it out, and if you have any feedback, let us know in our forum.

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8o25quUY30&feature=player_embedded (Mobile web Gmail in 44 languages)
see also http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/gmail-web-app-for-iphone-and-android-in.html I http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/and-bonjour-to-better-mobile-web-gmail.html

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