![]() Google's big step to make Web work offlinePublished on Thu, May 31, 2007 at 15:41 | Source : Moneycontrol.com Updated at Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 16:30
SAN FRANCISCO, The technology, called Google Gears, would allow users of computers, phones and other devices to manipulate Web services like e-mail, online calendars or news readers whether online, intermittently connected to the Web or completely offline.
"The Web is great but it doesn't work very well when you don't have a Web connection," Jeff Huber, Google's vice president of engineering, said in an interview. "Gears addresses a functional gap on the Web." Google plans to make the Gears technology available for free as "open source" software, meaning other developers are free to use and enhance the software in their own products. Gears promises to expand the usage of scores of Google products and services, as well as thousands of programs from independent software makers, by making them more accessible at previously inconvenient times and places. The technology also allows developers to build Internet search and indexing of Web pages into their own software applications, Huber said.
Early partners who will use Gears in their products include design software leader Adobe Systems Inc., maker of Flash animation and Acrobat document-sharing software, as well as new Apollo tools that work online and offline, Adobe said. Other organizations working with Google are
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