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 ...

From navigating remote mountain trails to organizing multi-city adventures, today’s travel apps make trip planning smarter and stress-free — even without internet. Offline maps, itinerary builders, ...

Building applications can already be a grueling process for developers, especially when networks become slow, spotty, or go down completely. By building offline-first apps, developers create an always ...

In this day and age, internet connectivity has grown into a necessity and has made it easier to facilitate numerous services from the comfort of any place on any device. As a result, today, pretty ...

Your phone’s GPS chip works without an internet connection, but most navigation apps need data to load map tiles, calculate routes, and display points of interest. That means losing signal on a ...

This week Google pulled out the big guns, firing a shot across the bow of Microsoft's core desktop software model with a technology called Google Gears that promises to enable offline use of Web apps.

As Naples luxury real estate embraces advanced smart home systems, new offline smart TV apps are showing how entertainment can stay seamless even without internet. Features like Plex, LocalCast, and ...

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 ...