Wednesday, April 23, 2008

BrowserPlus answer to Gears

BrowserPlus could be <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Yahoo-BrowserPlus-is-a-Bridge-Between-Devices/?sp=0&kc=EWKNLWSU042308FEA1">Yahoo's answer to Google's Gears,</A> which offers offline access for users traveling or plagued by poor Internet connections.

While the financial experts wait on tenterhooks to learn how the Yahoo-Microsoft bid will shake out and how the Internet company will fare in its quarterly earnings announcement April 22, Yahoo's programmers continue to crank out new software.

BrowserPlus is the latest tool to slip into beta from the company's secretive Brickhouse incubator unit, according to Googler Dion Almaer's Ajaxian.

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