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15 May 07
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04 Dec 06
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Sharpcast, a company started by a former Palm executive, has been offering seamless online/offline synchronizing of photos for some time now, and announced -- also at the Web 2.0 conference -- that it plans to roll out new software (code-named Hummingbird) that will use the same process to synchronize any kind of data, including text, pictures, music and video.
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oogle is working on making its Writely (now Google Docs) application useable offline.
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its offline client looks and acts exactly the same as its Web-based services, and automatically synchronizes the data from its e-mail, calendar, document-editing and other applications when Internet access becomes available.
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imbra, one of Google's smaller competitors in the online office software market, launched such an application at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
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Online software such as Google's office-style suite has an Achilles heel, however, and that is the "online" part. In other words, such applications only work if you have Internet access.
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he online service providers like Google are trying to find a seamless way to move their online products offline, while Microsoft is busy trying to bridge the gap from the other end.
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all of Google's applications are already focused on the online market, while Microsoft is still trying to catch up by moving its software online (it recently announced a plan to give users online access to its second-tier Microsoft Works office software suite)
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