Azure service platform is a cloud computing platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. This provides operating system & different set of development service which the developers can use to build their own web applications or enhance them directly in that platform. Without purchasing any upfront technology, developers can create their applications more quickly & easily in the cloud. They only need working knowledge in .Net Framework & Visual Studio Environment. Azure service currently supports native languages. In future it will support many more including Microsoft & Non-Microsoft languages. Once the coding is done, the developer can build & host the application in the cloud, so that end user will be able to run it over the internet.
Azure platform consists of Windows Azure, which is an Operating System to provide on demand computing, storage and management of cloud applications. In short, Windows Azure is an Operating System for the cloud computing platform designed for utility computing. It provides facilities to write, host or manage applications & store data on demand. The service layer consists of different services like: Live Service, .Net Service, SQL Service etc. which provides building blocks within the platform for the developers.

Cloud computing is a dynamic style of computing in which virtualized resources are provided as a service over the internet. The users of cloud computing need not to worry about the capital expenditure and maintenance cost of hardware and software resources. They have to pay only what they are using. This can be of two types. User can either pay the provider based on the resources consumed during the time period or a time based subscription.

Microsoft launched their new search engine named Bing (Kumo) on 28th May in Europe which went fully online on 3rd June. This search engine was designed to help people not only to quickly find anything over the internet but also to plan a trip or make a purchase decision. Using "Bing" the end user can find any information they need on their daily basis to accomplish their tasks. Bing categories results in different category, based on which the user can find relevant results more accurately.

You can find some Tips & Tricks on Bing.com at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/bing-tips/8931/

Google Wave is a project announced by Google on 28th May 2009 at the Google I/O conference is expected to release later in 2009. This will be a next generation email subsystem designed to merge email, instant messaging, social networking & wiki featuring strong spelling/grammar checking & automated translation between nearly about 40 different languages.

The term "Waves" described by Google as "equal parts conversation and document", means any authorized participant can reply anywhere in the conversation, they can edit or can add more participants during the conversation process. All the participants will be notified of changes or replies in all the waves they are actively participating & all the modifications will be seen at real time, letter by letter. Not only this, multiple participants may edit a single wave simultaneously in the same context.

This ability of Google Wave will let user to create collaborative documents modified in different location with full modification history, which can be searched by an user to view/modify any changes just like wikis.

More information about this is available in Google Wave Site.