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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. Quick! Post another story! by Foxxz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Taco is all like "oh crap! they found out that the last story was bogus! quick post another and distract them!"

    seriously though, this sounds alot like vnc and the many other various remote desktop programs. In fact, i'm using vnc right now to post this...

    -foxxz

  2. Clients already available by charnov · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are Java, Linux, and Citrix/Terminal Server clients available for many hand held devices already (even the Nokia Communicator phone has Citrix available for it).

    The tail end of the article mentions 18-24 month timeline for "bundled" products and a lot about the desire to license the tech. Sounds like a VC hunt to me.

    Still, I hope they get it to work. The world needs competitors to Citrix/Term Server (could Citrix BE any more expensive???)

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  3. There's VNC for the Palm, too by jdray · · Score: 5, Informative

    As referenced above, there's VNC clients (and servers) for a wide variety of platforms. Here's one for the Palm OS.

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