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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Microsoft OneDrive has received offline mode on web, letting you access marked files without an active internet connection. You can action and organize files and folders in offline mode, and changes ...

What I’m thinking about here is the concept of using Web applications offline. There have been all sorts of attempts to address this kind of functionality but none of them have had enough market ...

Google has added Slides, the latest version of its Docs presentation software, to its suite of offline applications, as it tries to play a spoiler role with the official releases of Microsoft Office ...

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 ...

It's an eternal back-and-forth tug of war between native vs. Web apps in the mobile development arena. Announcements of major companies switching from one to the other abound. As do surveys claiming ...