A brief history of the Gears project.

• 2008/09/11 - Google launches Search With My Location on mobile devices. (story)

• 2008/08/27 - YouTube Multi-Video Upload (site) switches from a custom plugin to Gears.

• 2008/08/22 - Gears 0.4 is released! It includes the Geolocation API, Blob object, and more.
• 2008/08/22 - LastMinute.com adds geolocation support to their mobile application.

• 2008/07/02 - WordPress 2.6 uses Gears to improve performance. (story)

• 2008/05/28 - Google Gears celebrates 1st birthday at Google I/O conference, and announces:
• New name (simply "Gears")
• Upcoming platforms (Opera, Firefox 3, Safari)
• Direction for future APIs (not just offline!)
• 2008/05/28 - MySpace Mail Search is released using Gears. (story)

• 2008/04/02 - Mobile version of Picasa Web Albums adds offline support. (story)
• 2008/03/31 - Google Docs adds offline support and desktop integration. (story)

• 2008/03/03 - Gears adds support for Windows Mobile devices.
• 2008/03/03 - Buxfer and Zoho launch Gears-enabled mobile applications.

• 2008/02/14 - Google Gears 0.2 is released!

• 2007/11/26 - Zoho Writer supports offline editing. (story)

• 2007/08/21 - Zoho Writer supports offline reading. (story)

• 2007/06/05 - Remember The Milk gets offline support. (story)

• 2007/05/31 - Google Reader gets offline support. (story)
• 2007/05/31 - Public launch of Google Gears.