Glide hopes to beat iPhone with streaming media

March 14, 2007

Media sharing company TransMedia is about to release its Glide Sync and Glide Mobile software for Mac users and hopes to upstage the iPhone in the process.

Glide allows supported phones to access videos and music hosted on the Glide servers. Media is streamed directly to the device offering the same experience as a video iPod without storage constraints.

TransMedia chairman and CEO Donald Leka, commented:

Mac users will be able to access all of their Macintosh files, whether they’re documents, photos, music, videos, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, from their cell phones. Effectively, we’re turning every major cell phone on the market into more than an iPhone, before the iPhone comes out. From that phone, not only will you be able to access everything, but you will also have significant capabilities to edit, manipulate, and create files on that phone and then have it reverse synchronize back to your Mac.

Windows users have been able to use the Glide software since December but the service is likely to benefit from the iPhone hype and might gain some ground before the iPhone is launched.

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