In February, Google released an update to the new Google bar to consumer users. Beginning on Monday April 9, 2012, the new Google bar will begin to roll out to all Google Apps users in two phases:

Phase 1 (Rollout begins April 9) - If you've enabled the Google+ service for your organization's Google Apps account, users will see the new Google bar only when they visit Google+ pages, such as their Google+ stream.

Phase 2 (Rollout begins April 16) - All users will see the new Google bar at the

Starting Monday, April 9th, the new Google bar look will be rolling out to all Google Apps users. The new Google bar has links to services at the top level and a More drop-down list with links to additional services.

- As before, the Google bar won’t show services that the administrator turns off in the Google Apps control panel.
- Google Search and Images always appear in the Google bar.
- A few services, such as Google Translate, do not have a services on/off setting in the control pan

Organize your messages before sending them by starring them or adding a label, making it easy to keep track of your sent messages.

Release track:
Rapid

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/star-and-label-messages-before-you-send.html

The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:
- Gmail: G+ users can now hide their G+ Circles while in the Gmail interface. This is rolling out to users over the next few days.

The following features are intended for release to these domains on Mar 20:
- Gmail: Open to: email links directly in Chrome
- Docs: A centralized "Comments" menu
- Docs: See full names in document and presentation comments (instead of showing email addresses)
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The following new features are now available:
- A centralized "Comments" menu*
- Better text search in PDFs and images
- Add custom Javascript and CSS to your Google Sites
- See full names in document and presentation comments (instead of showing email addresses)
- Use keyboard shortcuts for navigating between table cells in documents
- Cancel running scripts from the Google Apps Script editor
- Add donut charts and error bars in spreadsheets

Release track:
Rapid &amp

The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:
- Contacts: Google Contacts integration with profiles and Google+ circles

- Presentations: New presentations editor is now the default editor, also has discussions just like in Docs

- Spreadsheets: Menu options are now supported in right-to-left languages

The following features are intended for release to these domains on Mar 12:
- Gmail: Open to: email links directly in Chrome

The user search box in the Google Apps control panel has received a speed boost, and you can now use search operators such as:

     &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp This firstname operator query returns all accounts whose first name starts with "rob":
     &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp firstname:rob

     &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp This lastname operator query returns all accounts whose last name

The following features which were previously launched in Gmail, are now available to Google Apps users:

- Connected profiles.  If your contact has a Google profile, their contact entry will be updated with the profile information they’ve shared with you, including phone numbers, email addresses and more. If they change it in the future, you’ll get those updates automatically.  (This has worked for profiles internal to the domain for quite some time, but now we've enabled it for profi

Google Apps administrators now have more options when configuring chat settings in the control panel. The following new options are now available and can be configured for the entire domain or at the organizational unit level:

- Allow users to place phone calls to landline and mobile phones from chat.*
- Allow users to place voice calls from chat to other chat users.
- Allow users to place video calls from chat to other chat users.
- Allow users to transfer files to other chat users.

When you go to Gmail in Chrome, you will be asked if you want Gmail to open all email links. Click yes, and clicking on email links in any application on your computer will open a fresh Gmail compose window.

You can set Gmail as your default mail client in Firefox and Internet Explorer as well.

Release track:
Rapid

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

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The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:
- No new features to announce

The following features are intended for release to these domains on Mar 5:
- Contacts: Google Contacts integration with profiles and Google+ circles

- Presentations: New presentations editor is now the default editor, also has discussions just like in Docs

- Spreadsheets: Menu options are now supported in right-to-left languages

Release track:
Sch

The Google Docs app for Android has now been updated with the following new features:

- Edit your docs on your mobile device: Edit your docs just like on the desktop, see updates in real time as others type on their computers, tablets and phones, and you can just tap the document to join in.
- Pinch to zoom and focus on a specific paragraph or see the whole document at a glance.
- Rich text formatting for things like creating a quick bullet list, adding color to your documents, or just bold

The new presentations editor that was launched in October ‘11 is now the default editor for new presentations.

We’ve also added discussions to the editor just like in Docs. You can: Comment on a shape or an entire slide to give context to your discussion. Send an email notification by adding someone to a comment.

Resolve comments to let collaborators know that they’ve been addressed, and to reduce clutter in your presentation. Plus, to make it easy to get feedback without giving up co