Glide Content From PC to Smartphone to Others

location based servicesThrough Glide Effortless, TransMedia enables consumers to manage and share video, music, documents, photos, contacts and e-mail with nearly any other PC or Mac user. That service is now available to PDA and smartphones users through Glide Mobile.
With Glide Mobile, TransMedia Chairman and CEO Donald Leka told PDAStreet, the company overcomes device storage, hardware and software limitations, as well as network speeds and format and device incompatibilities, to enable users to access their content remotely and share it with others from their mobile devices; regardless of operating system or file format.

You can even send up to 40 GBs of files from your mobile handset to anyone in the world in a tiny 5k e-mail. Rights can be assigned to files and contacts and managed equally well from a PC or mobile handset.

Leka said, "Glide Mobile is designed to empower users to securely share files with anyone regardless of device, OS, software or file format and control how their files are accessed. This technical breakthrough is made possible by the flexible, scalable and extensible Glide system architecture."

Here's how Glide Mobile works:

All content streams through TransMedia servers on the way from once device to the other. So you never really hold tens of gigabytes of data on your handset; which wouldn't be possible anyway.

Glide functions sort of like a universal translator, breaking down proprietary software and format barriers by automatically converting video, audio, image and document files uploaded by all users into the necessary formats and sizes optimal for specific devices and networks, according to TransMedia.

This makes file sharing, communications and - eventually - ecommerce - device and network neutral. As a result, a user controls who may access her e-mail inbox, view her files and web publications and what's private and public on the Internet. She can also securely share files as viewable only, downloadable or modifiable, as well as upload files to and from virtually any computer or mobile device.

At the moment, DRM (digital rights management) solutions aren't supported. So, for now tunes purchased from iTunes, for example, aren’t accessible via a handset through Glide; although other - unprotected - music files in your iTunes folder can be.


Glide Mobile is available now for the Treo 700W (and other Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets). On May 17th, it'll work with the Motorola Razr and Nokia S60 series handsets. And on May 25th, Symbian-based, UIQ interface Sony Ericsson smartphone users will be able to leverage Glide Mobile. TransMedia will add additional devices shortly after that, Leka said to PDAStreet.
Stay tuned