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Google releases Gears for mobile devices

By | March 4, 2008, 5:57am PST

Summary: Google Gears is a plugin that you can download for your browser (if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox) that lets you use and interact with compatible websites while you are offline. It is a great tool that developers can make use of — however it’s still in it’s early stages and it’s not [...]

Google Gears is a plugin that you can download for your browser (if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox) that lets you use and interact with compatible websites while you are offline. It is a great tool that developers can make use of — however it’s still in it’s early stages and it’s not widely adopted yet.

Today Google launched Gears for mobile devices. It only runs on Internet Explorer Mobile, so those of you using Opera Mini or WebKit are left out in the cold for now. I wouldn’t imagine Google will completely ignore these two browsers as Opera is a major player, and WebKit powers mobile browsing in Android.

Google posted a torrent of “official” blog posts about the new product this morning, and in the one from the Google Code guys, they even announced their intentions to support “Android and other mobile platforms with capable web browsers”.

Click here to watch an interview with the Google Gears for Mobile team.

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Garett Rogers has always had a deep interest in computers and the Internet, which led him to a degree in Computer Information Systems. He is currently employed as a programmer for iQmetrix.

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Garett Rogers

Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry. He has no other formal associations with any software or hardware companies.

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Garett Rogers

Garett Rogers has always had a deep interest in computers and the Internet, which led him to a degree in Computer Information Systems. He is currently employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software designed specifically for the cellular and electronics industry.

Garett's journey into Google started with his employer asking him to "get a better rank on Google." Diving into search engine optimization sparked his curiosity for how things work and led him to create a blog dedicated to what interests him most--Google.

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English, a complicated language
oregonnerd13 5th Mar 2008
"...however it?s still in it?s early stages... "

The possessive case of 'its' has no apostrophe.
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