Posts Tagged ‘Google Gears’

Google knocks Gmail offline, in a good way

by Zach Epstein on January 28th, 2009 at 10:05am
Filed under: Services, Software 12 Comments

One of the many, many, many problems with webmail can be found right in its name – “web”. Accessing your email using a web interface can definitely be convenient as it’s accessible from any browser you happen upon. At the…

Get Google Gears and now you can get Geolocation

by Kelly Hodgkins on August 24th, 2008 at 1:08pm
Filed under: News, Services, Windows Mobile Leave a Comment

Google has launched its new Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers. Websites using this API can provide targeted information based upon your current location. The API determines your location using GPS or cell phone triangulation for cell phones…