Quickoffice Conference Allows Real-Time Wireless File Sharing
Cutting Edge Software is demonstrating Quickoffice Conference this week at Comdex. This app will let users join a wireless application "conference" and simultaneously see and make changes to the same spreadsheet or document. It will include peer-to-peer and peer-to-multi-peer conferencing capabilities and supports the 802.11b wireless LAN protocol and CDPD, CDMA, GSM and GPRS wireless wide area data protocols. It will be available in the first quarter on 2002. Pricing is not yet available.
The app will be made up of two parts: Quicksheet Conference Edition for editing spreadsheets, and Quickword Conference Edition for documents.
Workgroups will be able to conduct Quickoffice Conferences in either “Collaboration” or “Presenter” mode. In Collaboration Mode, multiple participants will be able to view, edit and control the files being worked on together. In Presenter Mode, a single conference participant will control the views on each of the participants’ devices.
“When we launched the very first Palm OS spreadsheet back in 1997, our aim was to provide mobile professionals with a tool for conducting their business anytime, anyplace,” said Jeff Musa, Cutting Edge Software’s president and CEO. “We are proud to once again be the first to break new ground by combining Quickoffice with today’s wireless communications technology.”
Cutting Edge Software designed Quickoffice Conference to enable participants to use the wireless modems and WLAN solutions already in use by the vast majority of “connected” mobile professionals. The application also works with the latest models of wireless “smart phones” from Samsung, Handspring, Kyocera, among others.
“This is an exciting announcement for users of our recently introduced Samsung I300 Palm Powered smart-phone,” said Todd Person, Business Development Manager for Samsung Telecommunication America. “The Quickoffice Conference technology provides an incredible platform for our industry leading I300 handset to add appreciable value to individual business customers as well as corporate implementations.” Cutting Edge Software will be demonstrating Quickoffice Conference at the Palm Partners Pavilion, Booth # L6155.
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RE: What for?
share and explain information and collaborate no
matter where they are - without haveing to have and
use a laptop. This is in effect a simplified
'NetMeeting' type of application.
Phil
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RE: What for? - A new era
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Any group that needs this kind of critical real-time access to their data on a regular basis can afford to buy better gear than Palm OS devices.
How can you say ''What for?''
You’re right in that its not going to replace PowerPoint slides in an organized meeting, but for quick, impromptu communication this could be great. I’m sure that there will be tons of other applications that can then use this technology to make their programs collaborative.
However I do think that the cheating on tests would be a cool trick too.
Mike K
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You wouldn't even have to walk in the door. You could get them on your Treo stuck in traffic half way across town. That way everyone doesn't have to waste 5 minutes while you get caught up when you do get there.
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15 years ago, everyone thought snail mail was fast enough. The people who needed to exchange documents faster than 3 or 4 days paid big bucks for it. Now everyone has email and I can send pictures to my mom in less than 10 seconds. Saying that the only people who NEED faster access to info are the people with deep pockets is short sighted.
And what do you consider "better gear" than a Palm OS device?
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Real teleconferencing / collabration equipment in conjunction with a laptop. More than two people trying to keep up with changes to a big spreadsheet by panning around on a tiny PDA screen would bring any meeting to its knees.
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What I think would be even better would be a real-time wireless connection between a Palm and a laptop/desktop. Bob is putting in the numbers in Quicksheet while Larry sees them show up in MS Excel. Maybe someday.
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RE: Let he who has ears, hear...
ANY new technology, when first introduced, is by definition "ahead of its time". Quicksheet sold for $50 in 1997, and it was the creator of the "pico-niche" for office productivity apps on the Pilot 1000 and Pilot5000. Naturally, lots of readers are going to scratch their heads at this new introduction. I think this is EXACTLY the kind of bold "innovation and leadership" that I came to expect from Cutting Edge Software over years of using their stuff.
Palm, Inc., you picked the wrong partner. What innovation has DataViz ever brought to the table?
Those who yawn at this announcement are simply not in a business situation or industry where they can envision the benefits of this product. I also see many uses for this idea. I'm anxious to see it!
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RE: Quickoffice Conference - Way ToGo!
Go Quickoffice Go.
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