Since first hearing about how Sun's Francois Orsini had used Apache Derby (a.k.a. JavaDB) to create a proof of concept that showed how a Web-based tax application could switch into an offline mode ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Chrome Web Store is opening in six more countries, giving developers a chart to view impressions and ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Google's mobile browser just made it even easier to cache and read pages when you don't have the internet. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts ...

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 ...

Offline Web pages are Web pages you can view without being connected to the Internet. There are many possible reasons for viewing an offline Web page – for example, you may want to access important ...

Google has announced that it is releasing a new set of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the form of an open-source project called Google Gears. Google Gears has nothing to do with War and ...

A team of AJAX experts is working on a new capability to enable Web applications to work offline. Brad Neuberg, a San Francisco-based software architect and programmer, said that he, along with the ...