Mumbai:
Google Inc had created a web software that runs both
online, and offline, by letting users work anywhere
even in the most remote locations.
Using a technology called Google Gears users of computers,
phones and other devices can manipulate web services like
e-mail, online calendars or news readers whether online,
intermittently connected to the web or completely offline.
This will narrow the gulf between new web services and
the desktop software, where any data changes are stored
locally on users'' machines.
Google is thus pushing the net into new spheres of activity
and posing a challenge to rival Microsoft Corp., leader
in the desktop software era.
Google plans to make the `Gears'' technology available
for free as "open source" software, helping
other developers to freely use and enhance the software
in their own products.
Gears will expand the usage of scores of Google products
and services, as well as thousands of programmes from
independent software makers, by making them more accessible
at previously inconvenient times and places.
The technology also allows developers to build internet
search and indexing of web pages into their own software
applications.
Google''s full Web search functions would return once the
user reconnects to the internet.
Early partners who will use Gears in their products include
design software leader Adobe Systems Inc., maker of Flash
animation and Acrobat document-sharing software, as well
as new Apollo tools that work online and offline, Adobe
said.
Other
organisations working with Google are Norway''s Opera Software
ASA, maker of a web browser popular with mobile phone
users, and Mozilla, the group behind Firefox, the biggest
alternative to Microsoft''s Internet Explorer browser,
according to Google.
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