Gmail will soon be available offline for internet users, including Calendar and Docs in efforts to improve productivity and increase the products' offline use. There is an expressed demand for offline access to either email or calendar said Rajen Sheth, Group Product Manager.

To that end, Google is launching a new Chrome app called Gmail Offline. Separate from Gmail itself, the new app is designed for accessing, managing and sending email while you’re disconnected from the web. “We can build on top of a lot of HTML5 standards, which gives us the capabilities to make it work offline,” Sheth said.

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