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Google Gears gives laptops a location fix
News Google has updated its open-source Gears project so websites can take advantage of location services in Gears-enabled web browsers. Google uses Gears to try to advance the web application state of the art, but only a small fraction of users have it...
[October 22, 2008, 11:38]
Google Gears races towards Microsoft
News Google Gears will address limitations with web-based computing," said Greg Sterling, principal of consultancy Sterling Market Intelligence. The search giant — which has evolved into an advertising company and now an "apps" provider — released...
[June 1, 2007, 8:59]
Google Gears and Security concerns
Talkback Google Gears is surely a boon for Forensics Investigators.http://www.anishshaikh.com/2008/04/google-gears-and-security-concerns.html But there have been many security concerns over the Gears database on how it stores the files and how bad it can...
[April 4, 2008, 22:44]
Google's Gears turns one
News Google has given an update on the progress of its Gears project, which had its first birthday on Wednesday. Previously called Google Gears, but now just 'Gears', the project is aimed at making online applications usable while offline.
[May 29, 2008, 15:13]
Google rolls out Gears for Safari
News Google has made the Safari-friendly version of Gears available. Mac users were able to download and install a rougher version of Gears as early as three weeks ago. Like its predecessor, the Mac version of Gears requires version 3.1.1 or higher of...
[September 16, 2008, 11:25]
Offline Google Docs expected to launch
News Recent news from the blogosphere indicates that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears. After announcing the launch of Google Gears last May at its annual...
[January 30, 2008, 8:09]
Google's offline web apps click into gear
News The search giant on Wednesday launched Google Gears, a browser plug-in that will let people run web applications when they're connected to the internet or not. The company released the source code for the Google Gears software in conjunction with...
[May 31, 2007, 8:26]
Google fixes risky Chrome bugs
News Chrome 3.0.195.32, released on Thursday, fixes a bug in the browser's implementation of the Gears SQL application programming interface (API) that could allow a malicious website to crash the Gears plug-in and possibly execute malicious code on a...
[November 9, 2009, 15:42]
Google fosters ties with developers
News In conjunction with the conference, the company on Wednesday announced Google Gears, a web browser plug-in that allows web developers to add offline access to web applications. Google Gears is part of the company's strategy to court developers in...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Adobe's Apollo platform goes beta
News Others include Microsoft's Silverlight and Google Gears. Google Gears, set for release later this year, offers a way to run web applications offline by providing a local database and other features. Adobe and Google are collaborating on Google Gears.
[June 11, 2007, 8:13]
Yahoo's Delicious is added to Chrome
News We're working on pushing out a new Gears version that supports Firefox 3.5," said Google programmer Aaron Boodman on Monday on a mailing list for Gears, a Firefox add-on that among other things can enable offline access to the Gmail web application.
[July 2, 2009, 9:56]
Google patches holes in Chrome
News Other bug fixes include updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, updates to Google Gears, and getting forward and backward navigation to work even when site redirection is involved. New versions of Google Chrome are out, fixing bugs and patching...
[July 20, 2009, 8:41]
Google launches 10th-anniversary site
News The anniversary site offers a timeline that spotlights historical moments such as Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 (£54,000) spur-of-the-moment investment in 1998; the date in 2000 when Google reached one billion pages in its index of the web; the...
[September 24, 2008, 10:11]
Google web workshop targets developers
News Sessions at Google's event will cover Ajax, JavaScript, APIs and tools including Google Gears, social networking, Maps, and the use of Android. Google is stepping up its efforts to engage developers, with a two-day workshop called "Google I/O: Web...
[March 12, 2008, 14:38]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment This is not GREAT, but this is OK, specially if they can integrate some version of Google Gears, enabling mobile AJAX apps to run offline. It will enable running existing J2ME applications (thousands exist today) and Google will provide more...
[November 6, 2007, 7:46]
Google Chrome - an open source browser, and more...
Blog It also has Gears, allowing web apps to work offline, plus multiple innovations in garbage collection, security and user interfaces - including a nine-pane automated favourites page, where the browser keeps your most-visited pages front and centre.
[September 1, 2008, 18:44]
Google to unveil open-source 'Chrome' browser
News Google will also build the open-source local runtime Gears into the browser, and is hoping that it will be taken up widely to "improve the base functionality of all browsers". After rumours broke out all over the web about the new software, Google...
[September 2, 2008, 8:58]
Google Wave: a First Look review
Reviews That means Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's own Chrome (which also takes advantage of the built-in Gears tools to boost Wave's performance by handling local data storage and multi-threaded JavaScript operations).
[September 23, 2009, 11:03]
Zoho takes hosted office apps offline
News In May the search giant released the source code for Google Gears, a browser plug-in that lets web-based applications run offline. However, Google Docs & Spreadsheets is yet to take advantage of Gears, and it seems that Zoho has now beaten Google...
[August 22, 2007, 11:16]
Yahoo's BrowserPlus goes open source
News BrowserPlus and Google Gears are aimed at improving browsers' native abilities so web applications can better match those running natively on a computer's operating system, and Gears is already open-source software.
[November 19, 2008, 7:55]
