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Offline access to Gmail, Docs, and Calendar a boost for Chromebo...

Extremetech  Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:33

Yes, the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook briefly sat atop Amazon’s best sellers list, but for the most part the general public still doesn’t see the point of a laptop that is seriously handicapped when an internet connection isn’t available.

When your Chromebook is offline, you can’t do much more than browse through the locally-saved files you crammed into its paltry internal storage.


 

Twitter Buys Mixer Labs to Boost Location Features

Mashable!  Wed, 12/23/2009 - 16:02

Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams has just announced on the company’s blog that they have acquired Mixer Labs, creator of the


 

Google to Retire Gears in Favor of HTML5

Mashable!  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 16:29

html5The next big revision of HTML, HTML5, is on the horizon, promising a whole host of new conveniences, including offline support for popular Web applicati


 

Want an @MySpace.com Email Address? Now You Can Have One

Mashable!  Thu, 07/30/2009 - 18:08

Earlier this week, it was reported that MySpace was soon to launch its own email system – MySpace Mail – that would allow users to c


 

gOS 3.1 Review

Linux Today  Mon, 06/01/2009 - 15:04

ExtremeTech: "Before I get into this review let me be clear that gOS is not "Google OS." It is not put out by Google so nobody should be confused by its name. gOS stands for "Good OS" though it does contain a lot of links to Google Web apps, Google Gadgets, and the option to add Google Gears is found on its app menu list."