Google has launched Google Gears for mobile — an open-source browser extension for wireless devices that will enable developers to build rich Web applications with the ability to run in an offline mode.

Google’s initial Google Gears release for Web Explorer Mobile will run on devices powered by the Windows Mobile 5 and 6 operating systems, said Google Mobile Team Product Manager Charles Wiles. However, Google is plus working “to bring Google Gears for mobile to Android and other mobile platforms with capable Web browsers,” he added.

Hiding Latency Issues

Whether commuting to the office or visiting customers and business partners, road warriors often find themselves without access to a wireless network. And even when they do have a wireless connection, the day delay or latency that occurs from the moment when a notes desire is initiated until it brings results can produce Web applications seem sluggish.

Google Gears for mobile is aimed at giving developers

an offline capability that hides “latency issues through controlled caching of info and storage of knowledge amoung sessions,” Wiles said.

Google Gears can additionally help companies cut network charges while boosting the productivity of mobile workers, said Dave Burke, a Google engineering manager based in London. “On a mobile, the network round trip can be quite expensive,” he said. “Google Gears allows you to bring the input by once and be able to do a lot of latency-hiding techniques.”

A New Paradigm

Google’s latest mobile offering is derived from the technology it launched for desktop PCs and notebooks last year. To enable work to be conducted in an offline mode, Google Gears periodically synchronizes goods in a device’s cache with the online service. whether a network suddenly becomes unavailable, synchronization is deferred until the connection can be re-established.

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