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It looks like Google might have done it again with another killer app. Google Wave will be coming out later this year. You can view a preview presentation on the Google Wave website. It is a very long video, but I did manage to watch most of it. It looks like it might just be there best and most innovative product to date (barring Google Search). It might just revolutionise the way we do email.

The military rulers in Fiji are very unhappy with Bill Gates and friends at Microsoft. Microsoft has allegedly named a new operating system, Window's Fiji.

Bill Gates will not return the phone called of Fiji Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Kaiyum. Sayed-Kaiyum has written to Gates in which he says "Fiji asserts its absolute ownership over the use of the world ‘Fiji’."

When I first heard about Twitter I thought it was quite simply the dumbest idea I have ever heard of. But after reading loads of people saying how much they love it, I decided to give it a try.

As recessionary fear and paranoia grips businesses in the USA and UK, Google does what Google does best, defies the market and paves its own way. Revenue has soared 42% in the first 3 months of this year from $3.66bn to $5.19bn. Profit has risen to $1.31 million, which is 30% higher than the first quarter of 2007.

For the last quarter of 2007, Google's profit increased $608 million to $1.21 billion. But yet many analysts are disappointed, expecting Google's profit to increase by even more.

This week Google has revealed its plans to enter the mobile phone market and it aims to "bring the internet into cell phones in a very cool way". The mobile market reached saturation point in the developed world long ago, but if one company can give it a massive shake up, its Google.

Hardcore geeks have loved to hate Microsoft for a long time, but it seems that a dislike of the "evil empire" of the computer world is growing. Yet many of use resign ourselves to the fact that if we have a PC, we need to use Microsoft products. At first glance, it appears that the only alternative is a buy an Apple Mac. However, it is possible to minimise the use of Microsoft software on a PC, and save yourself a small fortune in the process.

CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has been interviewed by TIME. It is an interesting and refreshing interview. Facebook is nothing sort of a phenomenon, with 150,000 new users per day and 40 billion page views per month. Mark Zuckerberg is not looking to cash in on its amazing success though, despite being offered $1 billion by Yahoo.

Google is on the warpath again, with an Adwords update last night that has the intent on wiping out more affiliate marketers. Google did this last year and outraged many affiliate marketers and some packed there bags and left the building.