Google is planning on putting a few more of its rather experimental ventures out of action in an attempt to streamline the services it offers.

In a blog post that describes Spring cleaning of Google's current range, the company announced it...

Ten new words and phrases, including Facetime, Tablet and Froyo, have entered the 2011 version of Pixmania's official Nerdic dictionary, the lexicon of geek speak for tech-holics. They have replaced a number of (near) defunct sayings and names, such...

The Internet has many movers and shakers; companies that the masses look to with open eyes and baited breath whenever a new product is released. However the top dog, big cheese, head honcho; the supreme being of the online world has to be Google.

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Google Wave, the community creative collaboration site, has now been opened for public use. There were some rumours circulating around the Web that the service may never get a public airing, but this open invite should dispel the myth.

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In summer 2009, Google launched Wave - a communications platform that seemingly everyone in the world clamoured for an invite to, then abandoned when they actually got an invite due to the platform's slow, slightly buggy and confusing nature.

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Google has added email notifications to its Google Wave application hoping to entice more people to the service.

The "collaboration" software that has so far failed to gain any real traction with users, is now able to notify those who have...

Google has acquired San Francisco-based AppJet in a move that's thought to be in order to bolster its Google Wave offering.

AppJet offers "EtherPad", a kind of Google Docs rival that gives its users the ability to upload documents and collaborate...

Google has introduced a couple of small changes to how its communication platform Wave behaves, in response to public demand. After users complained that public waves were clogging up inboxes, Google has tweaked the functionality so that waves are...

Could all of Google's web applications be getting an interface refresh that would make them more like Google Wave? Screenshots published by Engadget appear to suggest that may be that case, though it's not clear how far the changes are away.

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It's no secret that Google Wave is a little tricky to get your head around. When confronted with the Wave dashboard for the first time, many people scratch their heads and ask "uhh... what now?". Well, Gina Trapani and Adam Pash from productivity blog...

Google Wave may be about to open up its servers for federation, if reports from TheNextWeb are correct. If true, it would mean that businesses and corporations will imminently be able to download everything they need to run their own Google Wave server.

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It looks like Google is rolling out a second set of invites to Google Wave users. When logging in, users that have burnt through their initial five invites are finding that they've now been granted an additional twelve to dole out to whoever they like.

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It certainly can't have escaped you that Google Wave has arrived but, whether you've managed to get an invite or not, what you might have missed is the point of the whole exercise. Yes, it's a new way of communicating, mixing e-mail, IM, extensions,...

In our first-look review of Google Wave, we argued that - like Twitter - Wave needs applictions for it to be truly useful. The first of those desktop applications has arrived - albeit in a very limited state and only for Mac users.

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If you've not managed to grab an invite for Google Wave yet, and the videos of its functionality that are out there on the Web aren't good enough for you, then you might fancy seeing the new communications platform from Jules Winnfield's point of view.

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