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, 23:35]
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 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]
Google Enables Users To Edit Docs Offline
News Offline editing is a free feature using a technology known as Google Gears that the company introduced around 15 months ago to application developers to build offline features into their own programs.
[April 1, 2008, 8:08]
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, 8:12]
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]
Jeeves Gets An E-commerce Girlfriend!
News But, starting this Monday, the company's Web site, Ask.com, fronted by butler Jeeves, will also add the AskIda feature as it gears up for the holiday season. Not to be outdone, the lean-and-mean Google has been adding a little muscle to a search...
[November 6, 2000, 9:29]
Atleast They're Not Talking About How Much Money They'll Make
Talkback ZoHo is available off-line via Google Gears, which might be an issue if they were to be taken over by Yahoo. A competitor in this space, Live-documents recently speculated that they can take 1-10% of Microsoft office users, which would amount to...
[December 3, 2007, 10:07]
Novell's Latest Evolution
News As Novell gears up to report year-end earnings on Thursday -- amid plans to cut 19 percent of its workforce -- the company is also hard at work revamping how it does business. Former chief executive Eric Schmidt, who left Novell in August for Web...
[November 29, 2001, 12:34]
Internet Advertising Changes Gears
News Claria offers SearchScout, which delivers pop-up ads with paid search results when its customers use Google, for example. For example, type "hotels" into the search box at Yahoo or Google, and Zango's search assistant will automatically serve up...
[March 31, 2004, 12:35]
