Thursday, June 17, 2004
Pocketster "Pocket P2P" Application Released
Posted by Janak Parekh in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:00 PM
Simeda has released Pocketster, which had gained some notoriety under its prerelease name "Pocket Rendezvous".
Before people start making the invariable comparison to Napster based on its name, it's worth pointing out that Pocketster is essentially two things: a web server for your Pocket PC, which enables the publication of any content you want, and a peer-to-peer discovery tool that enables you to detect Pocket PC and other Rendezvous-based devices (if you've never heard of Rendezvous, you can check out Apple's page on it here).
As such, it's a tool for exchanging any content. I particularly like this scenario, as described on the website: "Carry your important presentations or other files in your pocket and have them instantly available on your wireless corporate network simply by browsing for your "pocketable" web server using Rendezvous" (although "corporate network support" will require the up-and-coming Pro version). People are invariably going to talk about the potential to exchange media content with random people, but to me, it's just another data exchange tool, much like Bluetooth's OBEX but based on TCP/IP and geared towards WiFi or other high-speed wireless solutions.
Before people start making the invariable comparison to Napster based on its name, it's worth pointing out that Pocketster is essentially two things: a web server for your Pocket PC, which enables the publication of any content you want, and a peer-to-peer discovery tool that enables you to detect Pocket PC and other Rendezvous-based devices (if you've never heard of Rendezvous, you can check out Apple's page on it here).
As such, it's a tool for exchanging any content. I particularly like this scenario, as described on the website: "Carry your important presentations or other files in your pocket and have them instantly available on your wireless corporate network simply by browsing for your "pocketable" web server using Rendezvous" (although "corporate network support" will require the up-and-coming Pro version). People are invariably going to talk about the potential to exchange media content with random people, but to me, it's just another data exchange tool, much like Bluetooth's OBEX but based on TCP/IP and geared towards WiFi or other high-speed wireless solutions.
