Anyone who stays in touch with the latest  IT news will probably be aware of a new application called "Wave", which is being promoted by Google. Could it be the next big thing? We know that Twitter caught on because of its simplicity, but the prospects aren't good for Wave, because the concept behind Wave is not for the fainthearted. However we feel it might succeed for the simple fact that it's a great idea.

Nearly everyone with a computer uses email, so much so that we ignore its drawbacks. ...
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You know those really irritating emails where the sender tells you what you need to know in two lines, and which then have pages full of corporate legal mumbo-jumbo which appears to say that nothing in the email can be trusted anyway? If you think that the sender’s company has insisted on all this garbage being added because they’ve got in-house lawyers and want you to know it, you’re probably not far wrong. But you do need certain information on every business email, and looking throug...

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