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  Google opens Wave in a box

  Google Wave, the social networking service canceled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week.

  By Paul Krill | 04 September, 2010 02:01

  Tags: application development, collaboration, Google, google wave, software

• Google Wave: Promised a tsunami, delivered a ripple

  Google has pulled the plug on Google Wave. The communication and collaboration tool promised to revolutionize communication--with Google arrogantly asserting that Wave would supersede e-mail the same way the computer made the typewriter obsolete once upon a time. Unfortunately, nobody really understood what to do with Wave, and Google never gave any useful guidance to clarify it.

  By Tony Bradley | 06 August, 2010 08:17

  Tags: Google, google wave, internet, social networks

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  Facebook, Twitter killed Google Wave

  Was it a social network or a collaboration tool on steroids? Nobody could quite agree, and it’s one reason for the demise of Google Wave.

  By Georgina Swan | 06 August, 2010 08:53

  Tags: collaboration, Facebook, google wave, social network, twitter

• Google drops Google Wave

  A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking service, the company said Wednesday.

  By Joab Jackson | 05 August, 2010 08:26

  Tags: Google, google wave, internet, Internet-based applications and services, social media, social networking

• Google I/O: Will We Get to See Google TV?

  Google may be getting ready to launch its fabled Google TV set-top box during the company's Google I/O developer conference on Thursday, according to the latest rumors. The search giant may also make an Android announcement, possibly introducing Android 2.2, the next iteration of Google's smartphone OS.

  By Ian Paul | 21 May, 2010 02:48

  Tags: Android, chrome, Google, Google IO conference, google wave, Online TV

• Google Wave won't be quick hit in the enterprise, analysts say

  Google may hope that the widespread release of Google Wave serves as a new entry into the enterprise, but some analysts don't expect that businesses will rush to adopt it.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 20 May, 2010 07:25

  Tags: analysts, google wave

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  Google makes Wave widely available

  Google will make its Wave collaboration and communication tool available to anyone who wants to try it out on Wednesday at its I/O developer conference.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 20 May, 2010 04:51

  Tags: collaboration, Google, google wave, Google IO conference

• Google buys collaboration app to boost Wave

  In order to boost its Wave product, Google has acquired AppJet, which makes the EtherPad real-time workgroup collaboration application.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 December, 2009 09:13

  Tags: collaboration, Google, google wave

• SAP readying potential Google Wave rival

  SAP is planning to release a "virtual war room" decision-making tool dubbed Constellation, which could be a potential rival to Google's heralded Wave collaboration platform.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 December, 2009 04:23

  Tags: collaboration, google wave, sap

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  Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite

  Novell has unveiled an enterprise social networking suite that is integrated with Google's new Wave application and lets co-workers collaborate on documents.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 November, 2009 08:37

  Tags: collaboration, google wave, novell, Novell Pulse, social networking

• Google Wave: It's innovative, but is it truly useful?

  Google Wave is a groundbreaking real-time collaborative tool that has the potential to be an ideal way for members of a group to work with one another. But it's not clear how useful it will be in the real world. It's the kind of tool that you want to use, but one that you may not be able to figure out how to fit into your work life.

  By Preston Gralla | 24 October, 2009 04:53

  Tags: collaboration, google wave, unified communications

• Google Wave could prove a threat to Facebook, Twitter

  As the most influential Web company gets closer to throwing its hat into the social networking ring, there has to be some consternation in the offices of social network pioneers like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, analysts say.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 01 October, 2009 05:20

  Tags: Facebook, google wave, twitter

• SAP, Salesforce.com make apps with Google Wave

  Google's Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 October, 2009 06:56

  Tags: apps, google wave, salesforce.com, sap

• Google set to roll out Wave to 100,000 early users

  Google Inc.'s highly anticipated communication and collaboration tool - Google Wave - is one big step closer to its first customer shipment.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 30 September, 2009 06:11

  Tags: collaboration, google wave

• Google to let Apps users try out Wave

  Google will let some users of its Apps suite test-drive in the fall its Wave collaboration and communication tool, the company said on Tuesday in an official blog.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 02 September, 2009 07:55

  Tags: collaboration, Google, google apps, google wave