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Google has always been a strong believer in the web as a platform, but it has had to use some tricks and hacks to make its web apps do things that regular web technologies would not allow them to. The company is trying to move away from that approach, Native Client notwithstanding, for example with the deprecation of... |
30 May 2011
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A group of investigators from the Duke University says that a lot of knowledge can be extracted from the way the wheel evolved over time. The experts say that there is a massive difference between the wheels that appeared in the Neolithic Period and the ones that can be seen today in modern cars and bikes. According ... |
14 June 2010
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Web apps can be great for many things and Google is a big supporter of anything that lives in the cloud. But they have one major disadvantage, if there's no Internet connection there's no app. Broadband is becoming ubiquitous in some countries and wireless connections are increasingly available and reliabl... |
8 December 2009
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Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, was present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and even came into the spotlight to demonstrate a new ‘technical concept’ meant to allow devices that feature a Webkit browser to use Gmail while offline. Devices that would be able to support the technol... |
23 February 2009
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More than a century ago, some sponge divers were caught in a storm and took refuge on the Antikythera islet. When the storm passed, they dived again, but instead of sponges, they found the remains of an ancient shipwreck, which held, among other things, an unappealing mechanism that sparked no interest until modern t... |
11 December 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Gears, an open source project that enables more powerful web applications by adding new features to web browsers, has recently been released for Safari, confirming rumors that Safari might eventually borrow features from Chrome. The plug-in extends the browser to create a richer platform for web applications. You can... |
17 September 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Google has released two APIs to enhance geo-location. One is AJAX-based and the other one makes use of the Gears browser extension. This enables web and mobile developers to easily distribute content or to authenticate users based on location.The AJAX API determines the location of a user based on their IP address. I... |
25 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
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When you're struggling to fight back on every front, you can't afford to lose any good soldiers on the battlefield or, even worse, you can't have them deserting to the enemy. Based on that, I find Yahoo's decision to let about two thousand people go before the holidays and it losing one of its Chi... |
3 January 2008
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Why be sad about it?! It's better to think that the Page Creator has gone off to a farm and is playing with rabbits and other small furry animals, and that it's happy… It didn't die, it wasn't obliterated by the big bad and soon to come JotSpot based service, it's just gone for a while and wh... |
3 December 2007
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It can be really frustrating to be working on some school related project or on a research and need all the information available and suddenly your Internet Service Provider to fail to deliver on its end. It happened to me a lot because, back in the days I was in school and needed such information, well, let's j... |
22 November 2007
05:22 GMT |
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Since the super search giant rolled out Google Gears, we all knew the company will become a top player in the offline competition and today's piece of news seems to support this statement. It seems like Google Calendar is the next technology to get Google Gears support, the product which was designed by the Moun... |
24 October 2007
05:59 GMT |
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Google Gears, the technology powered by the super giant which takes the web-based applications into offline mode, is now able to work with Blogger, the blogging service owned by the same company. Actually, it doesn't take the entire service in offline mode because it only creates Blog.gears, an offline Blogger c... |
23 October 2007
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Google has all it takes to build an offline mail technology and the recent rumors are sustaining this statement. The Hindustan Times reported the Mountain View company is currently testing an offline flavor of its famous mail solution Gmail that would allow the users to read messages without an Internet connection. O... |
17 September 2007
04:38 GMT |
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If anyone is still interested in buying Microsoft Office, then this should make them turn their to another solution on the market, because Microsoft's pack of tools is not the only technology available on the market. Beside Google's Office suite, OpenOffice and other similar services, a new product is now a... |
21 August 2007
08:29 GMT |
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Words on the possibility of Google getting involved in the process of developing a mobile software platform have been going by for some time now. Now, this company promises to make serious competition for Windows by introducing such a service.There is a high chance that Google will support all major operating systems... |
8 June 2007
10:50 GMT |
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If you were looking for a powerful browser that can save your visited websites and allow you to view them in offline mode, you should know that it's very hard to find an application capable to do that with 100 percent functionality. As we expected, the search giant Google decided that it's the time to take ... |
31 May 2007
04:04 GMT |
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