 | | Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave | | Google on Thursday publicly demonstrated Google Wave for the first time at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Billed as "the e-mail of the future," Google Wave is the result of a multiyear project inside of Google to reinvent the in-box, blending e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, and perhaps, with input from developers, connections to the world of social networking. Wave organizes Internet discussions in the trendy stream of consciousness fashion. It's a little bit Twitter, a little bit Friendfeed, and a little bit Facebook all in one service, allowing you to send direct messages to online contacts with real-time replies, share photos or documents, and add or delete members of the conversation as needed.
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CNET.com |  | | New on Webware.com | | | Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off Bing, the rebranded and rebuilt search engine formerly code-named Kumo, designed to replace Live Search. It's a solid improvement over the previous search product, and it beats Google in important areas. It will help Microsoft gain share in the search business. It's surprisingly competitive with Google. Read more |  | Hulu Labs debuts with desktop app
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
Blurring the line between computer and TV just a tad more, video-streaming site Hulu puts its content front and center with a new desktop app for Windows and Mac. Introduced via Hulu's new Labs testing bed, Hulu Desktop is one of four new apps in Labs and lets you watch TV shows and movies outside of the browser. Read more | | Skype 4.1 beta: Share your Windows screen
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
Skype's new screen-sharing feature is a clever addition to the VoIP communications application. In our tests it was engaging, especially when paired with Skype's voice calling and chatting capabilities. The fair screen quality and few seconds of lag time won't bother most casual users, but at this point we wouldn't recommend Skype's new feature for replacing a dedicated screen-sharing application or service for frequent collaborators. Read more | | Adobe offers online presentation technology
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Expanding its push from software toward online services, Adobe Systems on Wednesday introduced a technology for collaboratively producing and sharing online presentations. It's based on Adobe's Flash technology, an add-on that's widely installed in Web browsers, and lets multiple people work on the same presentation at the same time. Read more | | iLook struggles to make Outlook more social
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
Improving Outlook is no easy feat given that it's notoriously antisocial when it comes to social networking. The free Outlook plug-in iLook Social and Outlook tries to make Microsoft's ubiquitous e-mail client a bit more sociable by including souped-up searching and filtering, Skype integration, e-mail controls, content and attachment exporting, and Facebook support. Read more | | | |   | | Browser news | | | Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google Native Client, still highly experimental, lets browsers run program modules natively on an x86 processor for higher performance than with Web programming technologies such as JavaScript or Flash that involve more software layers to process and execute the code. But to use it, there's a significant barrier: people must install a browser plug-in. However, Google wants to make the technology more broadly accessible in browsers through new technology coming to HTML, the standard used to build Web pages. Read more | | Skyfire mobile browser reaches 1.0
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
In the newly released version 1.0 of Skyfire, the mobile browser has concentrated on the theme of picking up where you left off browsing. When you navigate away from a page or exit Skyfire--yet keep it running in the background--the browser will now remember your page position, returning you to your last zoom level and approximate location on the page. Read more | | | | | | Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most |
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