Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.

Schmidt left Novell after the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners. Schmidt had legal responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focused on management of the vice presidents and the sales organization. He succeeded founding chairman James Fallows in 2008.

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27 1955) is an American software engineer businessman and the Executive Chairman of Google. 5 billion.