Eighteen months or so after Google Gears debuted, a period of time scarred by
several major Gmail outages, Google’s cloud-accessible-only e-mail is
finally getting invested with offline support.
English-speaking US and UK Gmail users who want to test the new skill can now
catch up with the rest of the world.
Google calls the feature “early experimental,” but then Gmail is still in
beta two years after its general release.
Although Google has been using the widgetry internally “for quite a
while,” it warns that there still may be “some kinks that haven’t been
completely ironed ou... (more)
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, and Nokia, the world's largest cell
phone maker, have banded together to engineer a new class of x86 mobile
device - widgets beyond smartphones, notebooks and netbooks - that apparently
shrinks the power of a desktop into something that fits in your pocket.
Details are scarce. The pair won't discuss either specific products or timing
only that the widg... (more)
VirtualBox, the German-made, cross-platform, x86 desktop virtualization
software that Sun bought last year, graduates to the server with the 3.0
release that’s supposed to be announced today.
Sun says the widgetry can now create and run multiprocessor virtual machines
that can handle heavyweight server-class workloads. It’s also getting
enhanced graphics support for desktop-class workload... (more)
EveryZing, a spin-off of BBN Technologies, the outfit that dreamt up ARPANET
and the e-mail @ sign, has launched MediaCloud, the first-ever cloud-based
solution for online video and media companies.
The widgetry automatically generates and manages all kinds of metadata, the
so-called currency of multimedia content, the speech transcripts,
time-stamped tags, categories/topics, named entiti... (more)
Ivo Gonzaga da Silva
Jason Dolinger
Lars Ewe
Stephen Dukker
Irfan Khan
Matt Pollicove
Jeffrey Miller
Nicholas Leck
Dmitry Sotnikov
Eric Baldeschwieler
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