Google Wave, a product that launched with so much fan fare, has no future as a standalone product any more. Or at least in the eyes of Google. Here’s what they say. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html Remember what Bill Gates had to say on Google.. the best day for many of their products is the first day. Ironical!

“Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he [...]

Cygnus, a small Indiana company, has sued the Big Three of Tech — Microsoft, Apple, and Google — claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. Cygnus’s owner and president, Gregory Swartz, developed [...]

Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. We are compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Following Linux norms, this project will be open-sourced, under the Apache License.

For a lot of the Mac fanfare, here is some good news. The Google Calendar team has released support for the CalDAV protocol. You can now use Apple iCal with your Google Calendar, so you can work even when you’re offline, sync almost instantly, respond to invitations from others and see the free/busy data of [...]

Those crazy zzzPhone kids are at it again, and this time they’re jumping on the open handset bandwagon. Sure, the whole thing has always seemed excessively shady, and as far as we can tell no one has ever received a one of these devices, but apparently the made-to-order cellphone is now “shipping” with Android. If [...]

From Google Blog: At Google, we develop products that we love to use ourselves. For example, we’re avid users of Search, Gmail, Maps, and many others. But for those of us in mobile, it’s tough. Not all products work the same on all devices, and although we try and optimize for each device, we often [...]

Courtesy Google Blog: This July, Street View went international for the Tour de France, and in August, expanded coverage to Japan and Australia. Now, Street View is coming to another new frontier: your phone. Today we’re launching a new version of Google Maps for mobile with the same street-level imagery available on desktop. Wondering if [...]

Courtesy Google Blog: From time to time, we all need information about local businesses when we’re away from our computers — like confirming the address of a bar while on the way to meet friends. Today we’re introducing Search with My Location, a new way to make searching for nearby businesses on your Windows Mobile [...]

When we launched the mobile (xhtml) version of orkut back in April on m.orkut.com, we were overwhelmed by its adoption. However, Google always tries to build our products for a diverse group of users. Many people access orkut from their smartphones, many of which can support more advanced functionality. So today we are launching a [...]