“Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects,” wrote Google senior vice president of operations Urs Hoelzle in a statement. “The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began.”
Wave’s full potential remains unrealized, and the path to transcending e-mail remains elusive. Breaking down the barriers between e-mail, instant messaging, and microblogging is a non-trivial task, one that will require a more incremental approach. Despite the fact that Wave has failed to gain enough traction to justify further development, the project and its innovative underlying concepts have already had an impact on how developers think about messaging technologies.

Google would not comment on whether Intel was one of the roughly 20 unnamed companies that the world’s No. 1 Internet search engine said had been similarly targeted in attacks that originated in China.
Chinese military and education officials have dismissed reports linking them with a cyber attack on the Internet search engine Google. In an interview with China Daily, they said that a recent accusation printed in the New York Times was false.