Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages.

The new feature, found in a settings menu, can automatically detect in which language the original document is written. It then opens the translated version in a new window, allowing you to compare and contrast the two side by side.

Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and dispatched to silicon.com from Leeds via a free wi-fi service the next day.

Throughout my life I have seen warfare mutate from the World War II model to terrorism, the threat of weapons of mass destruction and cyber attacks. Like all aspects of human activity, this has been powered by raw technology, and the advances in the next lifetime will most likely be even more dramatic than what we’ve seen so far.

Snow Leopard, Apple’s latest OS, was released today. Here’s a look at what’s new in Mac OS.

ExposeExpose can now be accessed from the Dock. Simply click and hold down on an application icon in the Dock to bring up full thumbnails of open windows in an application.

Gone are the days when slacking in the office would encompass doodling, staring into space and elaborate daydreams about what to say to the boss upon winning the lottery.

Loafing is now actually really hard work, what with Twitter to keep up with, Facebook to update and all manner of RSS feeds to scan for morsels of info. It’s almost less hassle to just keep working.

Salesforce.com’s cloud platform Force.com is to open up to third-party channel resellers.

The software-as-a-service company’s VAR (value-added reseller) programme, announced on Wednesday, is aimed at vendors who provide SMEs with hardware, software and infrastructure backup.

There are a whole bunch of reasons why Windows 7 should appeal to businesses but one threat - the still-sluggish economy - could overshadow all of those reasons to move to the new operating system.

“I think they have a really good product at a really bad time,” Directions on Microsoft analyst Michael Cherry said this week.