Occasionally Connected Computing is Coming of Age
It appears that Occasionally Connected Computing (or OCC as Intel identified it) may finally be approaching with Silverlight and Google Gears for mobile devices on the horizon. TechCrunch covered the announcements.
Google defines Google Gears as “an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline.”
Nokia announced that Silverlight by Microsoft will be made available for S60 smartphones. From the press release :
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications.
Back in 2005, I wrote about the advantages of what was then called Occasionally Connected Computing in three posts:
UPDATE - Brighthand has a great explanation of Google Gears here.