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Google Wave has been dead for quite a while. But not as dead as now. It was only a few weeks after the service was made available to everyone that Google announced it would kill it. Euthanasia though takes a long time for something like Wave.The technology behind the project was open sourced and became part of the Ap... |
1 May 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Google Wave was once Google's most ambitious projects. That turned out to be its undoing since, while Wave was a technological wonder, it was solution looking for a problem. It promised real-time collaboration, a combination of wiki and chat, and plenty of other advanced features.
But few people actually figure... |
23 November 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Google is announcing another round of spring cleaning, in fall. The company has been looking to shed unsuccessful projects and has dropped plenty of lesser known services this year.
Now it's announcing a new bunch of services that are getting shut down. There are some names you'll remember, but most that y... |
23 November 2011
05:16 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Google Shared Spaces sprung up as a way for Wave gadgets to live on even as the platform is retired. At the time, there were some bugs and it didn't seem like a finished product. Google is now making the official announcement and the Labs experiment is ready for everyone."In August, Go... |
22 December 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Google Wave may be dead as far as Google is concerned, but its components are getting recycled and the technology behind it repurposed for other projects. One of the latest examples of this is also one of the stranger ones. Google Shared Spaces is a Labs experiment which provides a platform for all of the gadgets cre... |
20 December 2010
06:48 GMT |
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While Google is distancing itself from Wave, the project is far from dead. The Apache Software Foundation has now accepted to take the project under its tutelage. Google Wave will become apart of the Apache Incubator program, the first stage in becoming a fully supported project."One of the best outcomes from Novembe... |
7 December 2010
04:25 GMT |
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One of the common themes around Google recently revolves around its apparent inability to hold on to its talent. A number of high-profile people left the company, many of them heading to Facebook. Lars Rasmussen, the co-creator of Google Maps and Wave, has now confirmed that Facebook is his destination as well, after... |
1 November 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Lars Rasmussen, one of Google's high-ranking engineers has left the company and is said to be moving to Facebook. He is best known as the co-creator of the ill-fated Google Wave, but was also the co-creator of Google Maps.He has confirmed the move and yesterday was his last day at Google. He hasn't said whe... |
30 October 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Google may have given up on building Wave itself, but the project will live on. The company is taking all the necessary in ensuring that Wave transitions from a Google technology to a fully open-source project, dubbed Wave in a Box. Now, to update developers on the progress and get people involved with the project, i... |
5 October 2010
09:35 GMT |
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News of Google Wave's early demise came as a surprise to most people, but didn't create much of a backlash. Which pretty much proves the point Google was making, Wave just wasn't used that much.Wave was actually seeing quite a bit of activity, just not enough by Google standards. So Google decided to s... |
31 August 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Google’s announcement that it will halt all development on Wave and that it may shut down the servers altogether come next year may have come as a surprise, but it didn’t exactly send shock waves in the tech world. That’s because most people didn’t use the product, the reason why Google is shu... |
9 August 2010
05:04 GMT |
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After several years in development, but just two months after the official launch, Google Wave, the hyped collaboration and communication service, has been killed off. Google will not waste any more time and money on it. The reason for the decision is simple: Google Wave just wasn’t seeing enough growth. As it ... |
5 August 2010
04:06 GMT |
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Google Wave, one of the company’s most ambitious and certainly one of its most hyped products, is now dead. Google has stopped any further development on it and will eventually close down the servers hosting it as well. This comes barely two months after Wave was opened to the public and a little over a year af... |
5 August 2010
03:25 GMT |
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Google Wave is now open to everyone. Any user with a Google account can log into the service, create a new Wave or participate in an existing one. But that’s only half of the news at Google I/O 2010. Google is also introducing Wave for Google Apps. Administrators will now be able to turn on the service for thei... |
20 May 2010
09:29 GMT |
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There were a lot of announcements on the first day of the Google I/O 2010 conference and plenty of interesting new products and technologies. Last year, though, things were a little different, everyone was talking about one thing, Google Wave. The star of the 2009 Google I/O, Google Wave proved to be less kind to the... |
20 May 2010
09:12 GMT |
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One of the great prospects of Google Wave has been the ability to develop embeddable widgets enabling users to extend the functionality and add the features that they need to a wave. While Google Wave is still in private beta, though there are over one million users by now, there was a need for them to be able to fin... |
12 March 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Google Wave generated a great deal of hype before being made available to a larger number of users last year, but, as more people got to play around with it, the anticipation veined and was replaced mostly by disappointment. Still, the tool has some potential and Google is still working hard on bringing out the best ... |
3 March 2010
06:36 GMT |
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Most people aren't ready to give up on Google Wave just yet, but the general consensus is that the service is not ready for mainstream use and could do with a bit more tightening up. Still, Google is confident Wave is launching for everyone this year, it's currently in private beta, what's more it... |
10 February 2010
12:57 GMT |
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Google Wave may not be the hottest thing in the tech world at the moment after a slightly disappointing wider roll-out, but that may be a good thing as the team can now focus on improving the service for the users that matter, the ones that actually have a use for Wave rather than treat it like the latest novelty it... |
21 January 2010
05:19 GMT |
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Google is announcing that it has opened up registrations for the 2010 Google I/O developers conference. It is the third time Google will hold the conference aimed mostly at more technical subjects and it has used it to make some pretty big announcements in the past. Developers wanting to get in on the cheap have unt... |
13 January 2010
09:33 GMT |
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Google launched Wave to a wider audience a couple of months ago, though it mostly failed to live up to the hype. People were expecting the next-generation communications system, the email killer and got instead a rather complicated service which doesn't really know what it wants to be when it grows up. Neverthe... |
8 December 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Late last week, AppJet announced that it had been acquired by Google and that it would be effectively shutting down EtherPad, its real-time document collaboration app. This last part didn't sit particularly well with its users which were vocal in their disapproval of the move, claiming that in no way Google Wav... |
7 December 2009
05:30 GMT |
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When Google says it's in “acquisition mode,” it's not kidding. After staying mostly quiet on this front for the past two years or so, Google made its fourth acquisition in just a month. The company acquired AppJet, the startup behind EtherPad, a real-time collaborative word processor, for an und... |
5 December 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Google got most of the attention this week for its recently unveiled Chrome OS so the Wave team figured it was time for a little update as well. They're not actually announcing anything but they are revealing the results of a survey they've carried out to find out what people liked or disliked about Google... |
28 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Google's eagerly anticipated communications service Wave has opened to a lot more people for about a month now. Unfortunately, many users were unimpressed with the current state of the service, be it because of its rather clunky interface or simply because they just don't get what problem exactly it is try... |
13 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Google may be planning to give all of its apps and services a great do-over, creating a more unified experience across the different products. None of Google's biggest names is spared, starting with Gmail and moving to Docs and News, all of which will supposedly get a brand-new interface, very similar to Google ... |
9 November 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Google Wave may not be winning over the regular users, but it looks like it might have better luck in the enterprise sector. Novell, a software company specializing in enterprise products and maker of the popular SUSE Linux distribution, has just announced a brand-new, real-time collaboration tool dubbed Novell Pulse... |
5 November 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Google Wave has been available for a wider audience for about a month now, to mixed impressions, but it's still far from being mature enough for a complete roll out. Still, things are moving forward fast and Google has just announced that the Wave protocol and implementation is currently available for anyone to ... |
3 November 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Google Wave has been available to a much greater audience for about a month now and the impressions are mixed. The technology is there and it definitely has potential, but most people don't really get it and even find it useless. Add to this the relative complexity of the app and you can understand why people ar... |
2 November 2009
09:35 GMT |
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Google Wave has just been rolled out to a lot more users, though many are still waiting for their invites even as those who did get in complain about the service's apparent lack of focus and other shortcomings. Still, the project is very early on in its development and things are bound to change as it evolves an... |
16 October 2009
11:10 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint released its first mobile phone powered by Google's Android operating system, the HTC Hero, only a few days ago, yet it seems that the handset has already conquered people's hearts. The handset and its platform seem attractive enough to drive some enthusiasts towards using the former... |
15 October 2009
07:45 GMT |
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Google Wave is coming out later today and quite a few new users will get their hands on the spanking new Wave accounts. Several categories of users will be granted access and if you're lucky enough to know a friend with an account you may get in as well. This is actually the first step in the launch of the new c... |
30 September 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Google is ready to expand its testing of the upcoming communications platform Google Wave to include 100,000 lucky new users. The move was first revealed a couple of months ago and now Wave's creators have more details on the wider release and on the product itself. There are several ways of getting your hands o... |
30 September 2009
01:51 GMT |
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Google is getting closer to launching its upcoming revolutionary communications service Wave and will roll out the product for 100,000 new users and businesses come September 30. There has been a lot of anticipation for Google Wave ever since it was introduced at the beginning of this summer but not that many people ... |
28 September 2009
11:39 GMT |
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Google just launched a new plugin allowing Chrome to run inside Internet Explorer. This opens up a lot of possibilities but it's unlikely a lot of users will install it by themselves and, even if they do, web developers need to support it as well. So Google took the first step, and a rather bold one at that, by ... |
23 September 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Google Wave was only announced three months ago, but the wait has seemed a lot longer for many. Still, it won't be long now that Google will open up its email-IM-wiki combo to a lot more users. But, if you work for a company or go to a school that uses Google Apps, the wait may be even shorter, as Google has ann... |
2 September 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Since Google Wave was announced at the Google I/O 09 Conference in San Francisco almost two months ago, there hasn't been that much new information on the communication system that aims to replace email, instant messaging and just about any other form of communication and collaboration online today. Development ... |
23 July 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Google Wave is still under wraps with only select developers getting to see and use it. And we're still a few months away from any sort of release for the public. But to keep our appetites satisfied Wave's developers decided to show us what some of the devs with access to the technology have been creating. ... |
12 June 2009
11:08 GMT |
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There is a reason why the Mountain view-based search giant decided to unveil Google Wave at the Google I/O developers conference, namely because its success will largely depend on the developers and what they will make with the tools it provides them with. Google Wave has a lot of rough edges for now but the company ... |
29 May 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Google Wave was revealed earlier today, on day two of the Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco, to wide appreciation, as everyone loved it upon seeing its potential. Bringing together the best features of all the forms of communication available today, like email, chat, Twitter and Facebook, into one unif... |
29 May 2009
04:31 GMT |
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The first day of the Google I/O 2009 conference in San Francisco was all about HTML 5 and the future of the Internet. The second day though was about the future of communication, or at least Google's take on it. The project is called Google Wave and it aims to bring existing technologies together and then add a ... |
29 May 2009
03:44 GMT |
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