The new 2.0 update features an entirely new FaceTime-like interface, allowing simultaneous audio translations within a video call, which not only adds a new interactive experience, but also adds another dimension to this new type of instant communication: the body language and tone to each conversation.

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Type a phrase into Google and, in an instant, it pores over an astounding 8 billion Web pages.

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Mr Maghsoodnia compares instant messaging with the telephone: it should not matter what type of device one is calling from, but rather whether a caller is who he or she claims to be, and if the conversation is secure from eavesdroppers.

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Google Instant search, for example, requires both predicting outcomes as people type queries, and searching for the right results.

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Over the past couple of years, IBM has been working on technology for collaboration that include not just email but instant messaging, web meetings, blogs, wikis, Facebook-type communities and Twitter-like activity streams.

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However, the visitors have the type of players capable of turning defence into attack in an instant and duly did so as they punished Pompey's profligacy.

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One of my instant thoughts is that I am going to see results I don't want because until I type enough that it knows what I want, it is going to show me links I am not interested in.

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Last Wednesday Google announced Instant search, an impressive technical achievement that shows probable search results in real time--as you type letters into the search box.

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Google is running in the other direction, though, with things like Instant Search, which is keen to give me an answer before it knows everything I was going to type.

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