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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 --- 92 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/webware/~3/300151620/8301-1_109-9954069-2.html
 Google project manager Charles Wiles talks about the mobile version of Google Gears. (Credit: CNET Networks / Josh Lowensohn) Google's Gears platform is still fairly young as far as Web tools go. A year after its launch (today is the one-year anniversary) it's still found only in a handful of Web apps. Its real power is for mobile users, laptop road warriors and, in the case of mobile phones, for people who are in and out of range of cellular data networks. That is, as long as developers spend the time to build Gears into their sites. At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Charles Wiles and Andrei Popescu, who work on the Google Gears for mobile project in London, discussed the current state of Gears for mobile, a project they launched into shortly after the release of the desktop version. While the platform is currently only available for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Wiles noted that the upcoming version of Opera mini and version 9.5 (for desktops) will be Gears enabled. So will Android when devices with the operating system ship later this year. The main takeaway from the talk is that Gears for mobile phones can solve some of the problems frequently found on mobile Web apps--mainly slow connections and people dropping out of the range of a data connection during data transfer. The example shown was Google Photos, which has a mobile version that's recently become Gears enabled. Users who have a Gears mobi ... |
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