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RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage for the first time and, along with Alec Saunders VP of Developer Relations, talks a little on the success of the BlackBerry App World. We have seen some of the earlier numbers, but they just keep getting bigger every time. In addition to noting that 13% of BlackBerry developers to make more than $ 100,000 from their BlackBerry App World, RIM reached a milestone in January this year when they reach over 2 billion downloads in total with 6 million coming every day.

RIM announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud.

Today Google released the Chrome to Phone version 2.3.0 which will update the user interface display for more modern applications. Support for application in landscape view as well, the better, even though we’ve wanted this for a long time. Finally, a bug that would make the application crash when transferring text from your computer to be repaired. One device that is most affected by this bug is a Honeycomb tablet.

Youtube video sharing owned by Google company, Having previously launched an online video rental service, Youtube now plans to launch entertainment channel that will involve up to a figure like Madonna prestigious newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

Although refusing to give details of funding, Google said there will be more than 100 programs in the new channels to be launched. The partners include the Hollywood production companies, celebrities and new media groups. Its partners include former NBA star Shaquille O’Neil, comedian Amy Poehler, spiritual expert Deepak Chopra, actor Ashton Kutcher.

Google Plus 2.0 for Android reportedly supports both Android Gingerbread and Android Honeycomb OS. Apparently, the new version is designed for the Android 4.0 OS, which in our knowledge, is supported by the unannounced Nexus Prime Android phone. There are no details as to what’s new in the leaked release, but something that’s utterly obvious is that the version has a revamped UI, and loads of interface improvements.

Google updated its Translate application for Android devices on Thursday with support for 11 additional languages as part of a major update. The application will now translate and speak English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. Google originally launched the conversation feature of Google Translate in January of this year and subsequently added support for Japanese in the wake of the country’s earthquake and tsunami crisis. Users can speak words and then correct them, if there was an error, before the phone speaks them in the translated language. The text translation aspect of Google Translate offers support for 63 different languages. A video of the application in action follows after the break.