Last week Google launched Google Gears which allows offline access to online applications such as Google Reader. Most probably in the next months they will add offline support to all the other major services that they offer. And at that time Microsoft will start loosing revenues from the Windows Office combo which still is the milk cow for them.
Yesterday I noticed that Remember the Milk start offering offline access to their task management application using Google Gears toolkit. Most probably these guys will end up being aquired by Google and their software will be integrated in Google Calendar or will evolve into a competing solution for Basecamp software from 37signals.
The most interesting bit of information that I read yesterday was the fact that Google aquired PeakStream Inc, the guys which were starting to provide a middleware which leverage the power of GPUs, and multicore processors. Is clear that Google needs more computing power and more importantly needs more computing power per watt. On the other hand is somehow sad that the rest of the world won’t be able to use the Peakstream middleware anymore
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