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Google Gears: NOT a Microsoft killerPosted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on Jun 1, 2007 7:34 AM Subscribe Alerts3 comments: Google Office vs. Microsoft? Maybe I indicated today, underscoring that Google finally, apparently, has the guts to let Google Apps compete in the big boys market, a for pay one. Does that...[Read the rest]

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What Google Gears means for SaaS developers: Gears is almost a defensive announcement, an admission that the browser needs to move up a gear (pun intended) if it's going to stay relevant to the needs of Web... [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: May 31, 2007 2:27 PM

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Google Gears available for OS X: Google has apparently closed the "offline hole" when using its online office suite (Google Docs and Calendars) with the announcement of Google Gears. The best news is the that the... [Read the rest]; Posted by Jason D. O'Grady in The Apple Core on: May 31, 2007 9:55 AM
Google tests new 'Mashup Editor': First there was Yahoo Pipes. Then Microsoft's Popfly. Today, it's Google's Mashup Editor. Google has begun offering limited test to "a small number of developers." The news comes as Google... [Read the rest]; Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: May 31, 2007 7:58 AM
Google: Tough love for Microsoft: "Because the Web is Google's platform, we are interested in improving it as much as we can," so intones Bret Taylor, the evangelist for Google's strategic developer initiatives. Google "owns" the Web experience, but... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 31, 2007 7:49 AM

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Google vs. Microsoft Office: Game time: Is Google Gears the missing "kick-ass" Google Apps link that will enable Google to kick Microsoft Office's "ass"? Is there really such a thing as a magic bullet? After all, Google must... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 31, 2007 5:40 AM
Google Gears: NOT ready for prime time: Google Gears is not a defacto anything. Will it be though? Once again, a strategic Google move with an end-game to bolster Google's own fortunes is being lauded as a... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 31, 2007 5:00 AM

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'Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps: For at least a couple of years now, critics of Web applications like those served up by Web giants Google, Yahoo, and Salesforce.com have argued that those apps can never... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: May 31, 2007 4:00 AM
Google Gears - the game has changed: I'm not often left feeling completely astonished these days. I like to think I'm pretty on top of where things are going. But I just got completely blindsided by Google... [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Orchant in Office Evolution on: May 30, 2007 10:30 PM

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Google's love hate relationship with the desktop: Google CEO Eric Schmidt takes every opportunity to rally "Who needs the PC or a laptop for storage!" in his never ending quest to gather all the world's information "safely"... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 30, 2007 7:55 PM
Sprinkle Ajax with some scouring powder by Google Gears: In a world of bloated do-everything tools, Google Gears does one thing really well. Ok, three things. Cache and serve application resources, store and query data locally in SQL database,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Burnette in Dev Connection on: May 30, 2007 6:38 PM

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What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo: Some big news today that Google is announcing an open source project called "Google Gears" which is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera that enables offline... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ryan Stewart in The Universal Desktop on: May 30, 2007 4:36 PM

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Google Developer Day? Next year Chicago: Google Developer Day is but hours away, and Google Engineering love is already in full promotional swing. Google touts the event as a worldwide engineering fest, but the world's software... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 30, 2007 12:59 PM

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Google Web Toolkit 1.4: "Have to see it to believe it": Google just released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4 Release Candidate, a major upgrade to the company's open-source framework for writing AJAX web applications in the Java programming language. Highlights... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Burnette in Dev Connection on: May 30, 2007 6:08 AM
Does Google play fair in Open Source?: What is Google’s Open Source end game? I analyzed last month. Chris DiBona is set to fly the Google Open Source flag at the London outpost of Google's Developer Day Thursday. BUT:... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 29, 2007 9:20 AM
Microsoft gains over Google in Holy Land: In Microsoft ‘proud’ to trump Google in search last month I reported a Microsoft victory over Google in Israel, in enterprise search. Microsoft continues to make inroads over Google in... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 29, 2007 7:14 AM