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Google fixes up Chrome flaw gruesome twosome
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... [20 Jul 2009]
Firefox 3.5 critical hole gets plugged with new update
News Unfortunately, when I did so, the Firefox warned me that the newly updated Gears 0.5.29.0 plug-in from Google becomes incompatible again. Mozilla updated Firefox to version 3.5.1 for Windows, Mac, and... [17 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.07.09
Round-Up The writing was on the wall with the release of a set of web-based office apps, Gears (which allows users to access web apps offline) as well as the release of the Chrome browser late last year. So no more beta-ing about... [10 Jul 2009]
Web-based Gmail lands on iPhone, Android
News The application stores email messages on the phone itself using the HTML 5 standard for web page design and, in Android's case, using Google's Gears browser plug-in. Google has released... [08 Apr 2009]
Google touts offline Gmail for iPhone
News Where the desktop version uses a Google-developed open-source browser plug-in called Gears to enable offline support, the iPhone version uses the offline data storage standard of HTML 5, the gradually... [20 Feb 2009]
Google plays geotag with Gmail
News To boost accuracy, Bonechi recommends using Gears - an open source browser plug-in - to support a location module which uses wi-fi access points to provide a more accurate reading. Google Mail users will... [13 Feb 2009]
Adobe plans a bridge to the clouds
News Google's cloud computing is limited by the comparatively feeble abilities of JavaScript running in Web browsers, but extensions such as Gears are bringing some advanced features. But... [17 Nov 2008]
Opera mobile gets Symbian support
News While the beta does integrate Opera Widgets and introduces Opera Mobile 9.5 to Symbian phones, Opera has promised to add Google Gears and Opera Link support before the final release. There's been a lot... [20 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News This weekend could potentially be a historical one in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) as the tech world gears up for the latest annual Loebner Prize contest. However, Loebner feels AI is already being... [10 Oct 2008]
Google: Celebrating 10 years, with $10m 'do-gooder' pledge
News The anniversary site offers a timeline that spotlights historical moments such as Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 spur-of-the-moment investment in 1998, the date in 2000 when it reached one billion pages in its index of the web, the 2002... [24 Sep 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment Google plans to use Gears to do just this for its own office applications. Google's answer to this is Google Gears, a generic web browser extension that... [23 Jan 2008]
Adobe gets AIR-headed over web apps
News Others include Google Gears and Microsoft's Silverlight. Google Gears, set for release later this year, offers a way to run web applications offline by providing a local... [11 Jun 2007]
Photos: Google mashes up its developer day
Photo In conjunction with its developer day, Google also released the source code for its Google Gears software - a browser plug-in that lets people run web apps whether they're connected to... [01 Jun 2007]
Google Gears up for offline web apps
News The company released the source code for the software - known as Google Gears - in conjunction with Google Developer Day, a daylong conference in 10 locations. The goal of... [31 May 2007]
Microsoft launches into paid search
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to show off a new paid-search service on Wednesday that will eventually go toe-to-toe with rival Google and supplant partner Yahoo! With the product, Microsoft will move into the... [16 Mar 2005]
