Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for--Web applications that work offline. The search giant on Wednesday launched Google Gears, a browser plug-in that will let ...

What I’m thinking about here is the concept of using Web applications offline. There have been all sorts of attempts to address this kind of functionality but none of them have had enough market ...

We make enterprise SaaS products with Rails. It's starting to look like we're going to need some kind of limited "Offline Mode" for the apps, because many of our customers have remote locations with ...

All too often we hear the virtues of cloud computing and the joys of Web-based applications that allow users to access their data and apps no matter where they are. However, there are some negative ...

Although the offline-browsing technology is currently available only for a small number of sites, Gears can keep you working--sort of--when your Internet connection fails. Dennis O'Reilly began ...