Compact, inexpensive Netbooks like the ASUS Eee PC 701 are getting cheaper and more powerful. Why not consider using them for mobile fieldwork applications, like surveys and order entry? I used the ...

In this day and age, internet connectivity has grown into a necessity and has made it easier to facilitate numerous services from the comfort of any place on any device. As a result, today, pretty ...

This week Google pulled out the big guns, firing a shot across the bow of Microsoft's core desktop software model with a technology called Google Gears that promises to enable offline use of Web apps.

We are now so accustomed to everything we use requiring some kind of internet access that it's easy to forget about good, old offline functionality. Yet even in our hyper-connected age of social media ...

Building applications can already be a grueling process for developers, especially when networks become slow, spotty, or go down completely. By building offline-first apps, developers create an always ...

Offline Files is a small macOS app that indexes external drives once and keeps the metadata locally, so you can search across ...

All too often we hear the virtues of cloud computing and the joys of Web-based applications that allow users to access their data and apps no matter where they are. However, there are some negative ...

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft's Sync Framework is now available for download. Some others are calling it a competitor to Google Gears but it's not a good comparison. For one thing, Sync ...