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Real-time PC access on your PDA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-nice dept.

Brooks P. writes "As seen in this story on The Register, Sproqit Technologies creates software that allows you to access your desktop apps in real time over the Internet. No more synchronization. This is accomplished with a Desktop Agent that runs on your (Windows for now) PC, and a 200k Companion running on the PDA. The Desktop Agent uses plug-ins to connect to the apps running on the PC, and the SDK used to develop plug-ins is free. Oh, and the whole thing uses 128-bit SSL for security and works over any connection method: 802.11, modem, cell phone, etc."

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  1. thin client? by ergonal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So basically, a PDA that functions as a wireless thin client?

  2. Citrix/TS/X/SSH. What's new about this? by PSL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is different from Citrix or Terminal Services or a remote X session or good ole SSH how?

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  3. I liked it before... by Gudlyf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...when it was called VNC.

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  4. I'll never understand this by I'm+A+Librarian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems to me that if you have a device with a large enough display that you can effectively use complex applications that it will be big enough that it ought to have plenty of disk, CPU, and memory (like a laptop). Otherwise, it's just a phone or a pager kind of deal and who the hell wants to poke little buttons and look at a postage stamp-sized display when they're authoring a document? The entire industry built around handlheld computers has left me bewildered.

  5. Re:TermServies? by Dylan+Zimmerman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This just transmits the data as opposed to entire screen shots. Therefore, it uses MUCH less bandwidth.

    It isn't a remote desktop in any way, shape, or form.

    The reason to use this is that it gives you an interface optomised for the device that you're using instead of a desktop interface.

  6. Wow, and this is news how? by Mac+Degger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've done this quite a while back, about a month after the IIIc came out. Used a VNC proggy from Palmgear over my Nokia 7110's IrDA port to phone home.

    The only problem now is that I have broadband, so I can't dial into my PC :) So maybe the article is news :)

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