April 13th, 2009 by ahoogGood news for those of us in the business of computer/mobile forensics – latest web applications and trends are to cache (even more) data to the device. This will make the recovery of potentially important data/evidence easier, provided you have the proper training, tools and technical knowledge. The latest upgrade to GMail provides these types of changes and is likely just the beginning:
These features include a graphics tool called Canvas, “persistent storage,” and an “application cache,” explains Shyam Sheth, product manager on Google’s mobile team. Canvas is something of an alternative to the popular Adobe Flash software that’s commonly used to create graphics and animation on the Web. Persistent storage provides a way for data, originally on a remote server (such as Google’s e-mail servers), to be stored locally, on the device. The HTML 5 application cache keeps important information about an application on the device that allows it to open quickly, as if it were running directly on the hardware instead of remotely. The iPhone version of Gmail uses only HTML 5, whereas Android uses a combination of HTML 5 and Gears (a Google software add-on that enables its Web apps to run offline).
via Technology Review: Gmail Sidesteps the App Store.
