Farewell Google Gears

Remember Google Gears? (previous mentions) As a way to run web applications when not connected it sure seemed like just the ticket. Well, don’t get too attached — Google will be dropping support for it.

And yeah… that about sums it up. Hello HTML5.

If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on

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Google Drive!

Years ago there were lots of rumors around about the upcoming “Google Drive” online storage project… yet nothing ever really came of it. (I last mentioned it in 2006)

Until today.

The Google Docs blog announced the ability to store your files in the cloud. Not just Google Docs files, but any files.

Here’s the pitch:

Instead of emailing

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Google Sync now Pushing Email

Back in February of this year Google announced Google Sync — push syncing for Calendar and Contacts. I’ve been using it ever since with my Windows Mobile phone and love it but, like most folks, I’ve been hoping for the Email component…

Yesterday, Google announced the addition of push Email support. I visited the little ActiveSync

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Tasks Leave Labs — Calendar Gets Labs

Some interesting announcements from Google today.

Google Tasks Leaves Labs

Google announced that Tasks is now a regular feature and no longer in Gmail Labs. That’s moving pretty fast for Google, isn’t it? Heck, it took years for Gmail itself to lose the Beta tag and Tasks has only been around for less than a year!

About 8

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Google Chrome OS

Oh wow, this is interesting news!

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the

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