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Massive PlayStation Network Global Maintenance Starts Today

Sony has announced that its PlayStation Network online service will be entering a lengthy scheduled maintenance period later today all around the world, so some features or online multiplayer might not be available.Ever since the PlayStation Network was hacked, Sony has increased the scheduled maintenance periods for...

17 November 2011
04:36 GMT

Disappointing and Limited Offline Support for Google Docs Is Rolling Out (Pics)

Google has started rolling out the offline support feature for Docs. The company has been working on this for quite a while, more than a year now, and the launch has already suffered several delays, but, unfortunately, what Google has launched now is very, very basic offline support that doesn't address the most...

8 September 2011
04:41 GMT

Google Calendar Adds Limited Offline Support

As expected, Google Calendar has gotten an offline option, which has now been enabled for most people. Google announced earlier that Calendar, along with Docs and Gmail, will get some offline mode support.Out of the three services, Calendar is probably the most usable in offline mode. That said, it's also the si...

1 September 2011
12:21 GMT

PlayStation Network Down for Maintenance Today

Sony has confirmed that its PlayStation Network online service will be down for maintenance later today, both in North America and Europe, so many features, like password reset or PlayStation Store access, won't be available.Sony was severely affected by hackers earlier this year, forcing it to take down and reb...

11 August 2011
04:40 GMT

Nokia Has Given Up on the N-Gage

There are some things out there that refuse to die and you don't know whether to admire their persistence and refusal to drift away with the tide or disapprove of the old man that won't let go of his empty existence. The Nokia N-Gage is one of them and, if there is a time for the long-forgotten to come back...

2 November 2009
04:24 GMT

Apple Took Online Store Down for UI Maintenance

On Sunday, Apple's online store was down for what were rumored to be price cuts for the company's Macintosh line of computers. However, as soon as the store was back up, no observable changes were spotted, as far as pricing went. Apple did, however, perform maintenance on the store's interface, particu...

4 May 2009
06:05 GMT

Apple Store Down – Mac Upgrades Half Confirmed

Earlier today, we were still skeptical about the latest leaks concerning new Macs, but Apple has indirectly confirmed those rumors. The Apple online store is down, showing the “We'll be back soon” sign.Yesterday, leaks of new Mac model numbers appeared to confirm an older discovery of six new Apple p...

3 March 2009
06:43 GMT

A Piece of Chrome Comes to Safari - Gears

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

Google Docs Goes Offline, Challenging Microsoft Office

A few days ago, Google released what seems to be one of the most expected features ever issued by the Mountain View-based company: offline support for Google Docs. This means that Google Docs, that powerful document editing technology available for free for all Google-registered members, is now accessible even withou...

2 April 2008
05:46 GMT

Google Takes First Step Towards Advertising Holy Grail

A while ago, if somebody had even suggested that the future of the Internet was offline, most would have laughed at the thought, while the remainder of the audience wouldn't have understood the concept and, because of it, remained quiet. Google is actually heading towards this in full gear, after understanding t...

12 February 2008
08:46 GMT

Wikipedia Articles Offline? Bring it!

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

Child Pornography Hosting Service Goes Offline

The Russian Business Network (also known as RBN) went offline yesterday but nobody knows an official reason for the outage. A post on the Trend Micro blog informs that the service became unavailable yesterday at 7 PM PST and at this time its IP addresses are still unreachable. The RBN has always been famous for the i...

8 November 2007
08:40 GMT

Slowly But Surely, Google Goes Offline

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

Blogging Offline

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
03:49 GMT

Gmail Offline To Be Released Soon?

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

Google: Online, Offline and Soon, Mobile!

The Mountain View company is the kind of firm that wants to earn as much as it can and after it is already the leader of the online market, it prepares to attack the offline and the mobile "worlds". I think nobody disagrees on the fact that Google is the best search engine on the Internet and the king of the virtual ...

18 July 2007
15:51 GMT

First Time Offline: A Small Step for Google, One Giant Leap For The Internet

Last week, the Mountain View company debuted what it represented the first Google attempt to go deeper in the offline area and allow the users to access its solutions from elsewhere than from the Internet. The Google Gears tool is a Firefox extension that allows users to use the Google products even from offline mod...

7 June 2007
05:11 GMT

Firefox 3.0 to Support Offline Applications

The upcoming Firefox 3.0 will include an innovative function that allows its users to access a service or a website even from offline mode without any Internet connection. Last week on Friday, the Mountain View company Google debuted Google Gears, a special browser extension that allows almost the same thing, allowi...

4 June 2007
13:31 GMT

Meet The Google Gears: Use Your Services Even in Offline Mode!

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

Please Keep In Mind: Google Is The Most Powerful Company!

Google is the most powerful company in the entire world, not only on the Internet, for multiple reasons. The main reason is that it owns the best search engine, used by millions of visitors and implemented in numerous pages on the Internet. Recently, Google received the award for the most powerful brand in 2006, the ...

9 May 2007
15:26 GMT

Google Loves It Online But Wants Offline Too!

The Mountain View-based company wants to conquer the entire Internet because it considers the virtual world is still open for other companies. A Google employee recently sustained for Vnunet that Google is not the king over the entire Internet world and a considerable part of the network can be also used by other fir...

3 May 2007
09:51 GMT

Google: Online or Offline?

I must mention from the beginning that this article refers to the products designed by Google that are currently available for both online and offline users. Google is an Internet giant and you must agree because it is one of the most powerful online companies with million of users every day. As you know, the company...

14 March 2007
13:36 GMT

Offline Youtube Videos

Youtube.com, the most expensive site ever purchased, gained its notoriety by offering users the freedom to upload and share video content highly appreciated among the internet users. This incredible service provided since 2005 unleashed a real frenzy within the internet community. The wide diversity of video content ...

2 March 2007
15:21 GMT


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