Toshiba announces Ubiquitous Viewer software

Jan 18 2005 - 06:59 PM ET | Unique
Toshiba today announced software called Ubiquitous Viewer that will allow users to connect to Windows based computers through mobile phones. bq. The software, called Ubiquitous Viewer, is installed on the mobile phone and on a client computer running Windows and re-creates the desktop of a PC or notebook PC on the mobile phone's screen. That allows the user, for example, to use the PC via the mobile phone to complete tasks such as reading e-mails and editing documents. The software will be available on KDDI in Japan--it is a Java application that works on the EVDO data network. The software is aimed at corporate users and pricing was not announced. Look for it in March.