Tag: Google Gears

Google Moving Away from Gears to Focus on HTML5

Google Moving Away from Gears to Focus on HTML5

Google Gears has had a short life even in Internet years. Google is saying that it will be moving away from using Gears and towards using HTML5 in the future. Google Gears is a browser application that among other things allows users to work with web data when offline. This news comes ahead of the [...]

Posted by | 12/01/2009 | 1 Comment More
Stupid Headline Writing 101: Wall St Journal and Google Gears

Stupid Headline Writing 101: Wall St Journal and Google Gears

We’ve had some bad headline writing here at GBM on occasion and no one is really immune to a bad day, but you would think that the Wall St Journal would know better. This morning they published a headline that stated Google Gears Down for Tougher Times.

Posted by | 12/03/2008 | 6 Comments More

Google Gears Gets Geolocation API

The new update to Google Gears will now work with Location Based Services.  Up until now, this has really been used with cell phones, such as Google Maps, to find things close to the phones triangulated location.  Now, developers can use Google Gears on your laptop in conjunction with your WiFi access point to do [...]

Posted by | 10/22/2008 | 0 Comments More