LogMe to Release Remote Desktop Tool for Foleo

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Tuesday, August 7, 2007 2:19:01 PM

LogMeIn, Inc., has announced they will be bringing remote PC access capability to the Palm Foleo mobile companion. LogMeIn provides secure connections between remote PCs over the web - enabling easy desktop remote control, data backup and file sharing. Adding this application to the Foleo gives users the ability to quickly and securely access files and network resources on their home or work computers when away.

LogMeIn Free is a free service that provides fast, secure and easy access to a remote computer from virtually any web-enabled PC or Pocket PC with a high-speed Internet connection. Users can obtain on-demand remote access to their work and home computers - viewing desktops, files and network resources. With more than 20 million users, LogMeIn handles hundreds of thousands of remote connections between computers every day.

LogMeIn Pro provides mobile professionals with the same fast, secure and easy remote access to their business or home computers as LogMeIn Free, but with the added productivity benefits of file transfer, remote printing, large-file sharing and guest-invite features. LogMeIn employs state-of-the-art security, with 128-to 256-bit SSL encryption to prevent unauthorized access.

"This alliance with Palm is a perfect fit for us. The Foleo is designed for people on the go and - by using LogMeIn - they will be able to access their files, documents, photos and music as if they were at their office or home PC," said Richard Redding, vice president, business development, LogMeIn. "We are excited to work with Palm and extend LogMeIn's offerings to improve the experience of Foleo users."

Demonstrations of LogMeIn's application on the Foleo will take place in Palm's booth, No. 925, at LinuxWorld Expo Aug. 7-9, at the Moscone Convention Center North in San Francisco.

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Foleo can remote-control your PC now

cervezas @ 8/7/2007 4:30:21 PM #

I'm surprised (not really) that no one has mentioned the other Foleo annoucement from LinuxWorld: that a free PC remote-control application will be available for Foleo from LogMeIn. So, no problem updating QuickBooks on your home PC form the Foleo, or sending yourself some documents you didn't know you'd need off your office PC.

I've used the free version of LogMeIn when I needed to provide top-tier technical support to a user and it was easiest for me to take over her machine to get the information I needed. It works very well over WiFi--some latency, but enough like you're right there at the remote machine that you can comfortably run any application you need to on it. Never tried it over 3G or EDGE. I expect Avvenu would be better for remote file retrieval over a slower connection since you don't need to send the entire compressed video stream over the air to view and drill down into a remote file system.

Anyway, the link: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2274337184.html

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

cervezas @ 8/7/2007 4:46:04 PM #

Looks like they're talking about LogMeIn on the Palm blog now, too, in the context of the expanding circle of developers that Palm is working with on Foleo apps: http://blog.palm.com/palm/2007/08/palm-foleo-deve.html

There's another Hawkins video there, too, where he talks about the importance Palm places on developing platforms for application developers, not just monolithic products. Kind of goes along with the Wind River partnership announcement, which is probably most notable for hinting at the quality of tools and support that Foleo developers will be able to expect in the future.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

hkklife @ 8/7/2007 5:36:59 PM #

I think Palm's Men in Black nabbed Ryan last night or early today... ;-)
He's been out of the loop and hasn't gotten back on a couple of news items I've worked up & sent his way.

FYI he's been on the east coast this week so we figured things would be slow.

Back On Topic:

David, perhaps you can shed some light on this one for me. Regardless of my feelings towards the Foleo in and of itself, if I were at Palm I'd be a bit concerned hitching the ol' corporate wagon to a bunch of pretty small firms for much of the Foleo's functionality.

Little outfits--even the seemingly high flying ones (AvantGo or Brayder Technologies, anyone?) can be here one day, gone the next. How does a big outfit like Palm prepare for little hiccups like that?

Now, the 3rd party apps added by users are one thing, but how would someone like Palm go about protectng themselves & the integrated functionality of their products if one of these little fish in their "expanding circle of developers" goes under and/or encounters some legal issues that might bring distribution or updating of a bundled app/utility to a standstill?

In your opinion (or anyone else) are the hurdles that would present themselves in a Foleo-type situation more of legal/financial or technical in nature?

Just something I've always been curious about since the inherent capabilities of handheld-type devices seem to hinge more on stuff like that than, say, a desktop PC which can always remain servicible in a fallback mode of just the components of its OS.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

SeldomVisitor @ 8/7/2007 5:54:08 PM #

How silly...the PR-fluffs out of BOTH WindRiver and Palm are unambiguous about what is happening to the existing Linux implementation on the Fooleo.

I luv your redefinition of "operating system"...it is readily apparent you've never taken a real operating systems course.

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

cervezas @ 8/7/2007 6:04:07 PM #

Often, if you've got some application from a third party that's critical to your product (like Docs to Go on the Foleo) you insist that that party keep their source code in escrow and that the code become available to you on the condition that the developer goes out of business or fails to respond in a timely manner to support obligations. When my company develops applications for customers we usually deliver the source code and developer documentation to the customer when each version of the application is complete, but I know others who keep the source in escrow through some company that provides this service. If the 3rd party developer is worried about giving away their secret sauce to a company that might use it to compete against them later, escrow would provide some assurance that the customer couldn't do that.

If the application is central enough to the product Palm might also insist on a closer partnership where some of their own developers work shoulder-to-shoulder with the 3rd party developers. This enhances the knowledge transfer (in both directions) and makes it easier to bring development in-house if something in the contract or a subsequent mutual agreement triggers such an event.

Lastly, acquisition is always an option.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

LiveFaith @ 8/7/2007 6:27:51 PM #

Hey, this means that if you can connect to a PC, then the Foleo can do basically everything that the PC can do, remotely. Another reason to leave the laptop home, but not a laptop replacement.

1-2-3 ... You Go. You Go. You Go Little Foleo. You Go ...

Pat Horne

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

LiveFaith @ 8/7/2007 6:46:30 PM #

**FYI he's been on the east coast this week so we figured things would be slow.**

Whaddayasayin' HKK? We east coasters are outta the loop? Lemmetellya that right here in the north Georgia mountains, we git sum info. I've got a liddel homemade capture device that's been stealin some serious broadband off the microwave tower up onna mountain behind the cabin. You wouldn't believe some of the streamin' vids I'm gettin.

Now, concerning the little foxes that could spoil the Foleo's vine. Palm can almost always absorb a dying company when it's on the rocks. A lot of the stuff on my Treo now was once independent.

Pat Horne

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

hkklife @ 8/7/2007 6:59:39 PM #

SV;

I have never attempted, claimed to be, nor have any aspirations towards a programmer/coder/software engineer save for a handful of BASIC programs I messed around with as a young'un. I've never tired to give the illusion of anything else but the fact that I am a user/observer first and foremost. So I approach everything from that perspective...an educated consumer/customer is still just a user at the end of the day.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

SeldomVisitor @ 8/7/2007 7:16:45 PM #

That was not aimed at you, but at cervesas (*), who appears to be in total denial about PALM and what they are outright doing and saying. I have no idea how the post, however, got into this thread!

But CERTAINLY not directed at you.

Lol!

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(*) To show just how much The Cult Of The Poster applies to me (inversely)...I took 6 years of Spanish and, on first reading the ID "cervesas" knew that it meant "beers". But only TODAY, =years= later, did I connect that translation to the last name of the person with the ID.

Giggle!

And, to my amazement as I l;ooked further having giggled at myself over that brainfart, I found out that this guy only has =6= years of development experience!!!

OH MY GAWD! I've been thinking of him as EXPERIENCED and WELL VERSED all these years and he's got only SIX GODDAMNED YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE!!? Talking about pulling the wool over my eyes - yow!

Jesus.

I'll treat his posts appropriately from now on.

Sheesh, indeed.

RE: Foleo can remote-control your PC now

freakout @ 8/7/2007 7:17:51 PM #

I think Palm's Men in Black nabbed Ryan last night or early today... ;-)
He's been out of the loop and hasn't gotten back on a couple of news items I've worked up & sent his way.

Also, he's working on his new Top Secret mobile site, which is actually shaping up nicely I think.

At least I know you're not getting responses either. I was worried I was getting the cold shoulder for dragging my feet on the SplashID review for so long. ;)