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Google Android Push Gains March in Taiwan With New Project (Yahoo News)

The Taiwanese government on Thursday announced support for a new project based on Google's Android mobile operating system, one of a number of moves by Taipei this year to support Android. Contract electronics manufacturer Cheng Uei Precision Industry and Taiwan's largest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, plan to develop a suite of applications and services integrating NFC (Near Field Communication) wireless technology, applications and services for mobile phones that use the Android OS. All applications and services developed in the project will be based on Android code, according to a government statement describing the project. Read more here

Google Wave

Google Wave is a self-described "personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions. Initially released only to developers, a "preview release" of Google Wave was extended to 100,000 users in September 2009, each allowed to invite twenty to thirty additional users. On the 29th of November 2009, Google accepted most requests submitted soon after the extended release of the technical preview in September 2009, these users have around 25 invitations to give.

Read more about Google Wave at Wikipedia