Spoils of 2012 acquisition finally retired.

Google has finally axed Google Wave after the project failed to achieve any success.

Google has announced that it is to open its Wave collaboration platform to selected educational and business users starting at the end of this month.

Before it's even officially launched, Google has release 40,000 lines of code for its Wave collaborative communications platform under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Google has announced a limited developer preview of its new unified communications platform, Google Wave - which is set to be released as open-source soon.