Transmedia Corporation Reducing Digital Friction
On December 6, 2006, TransMedia will unveil the all-new second-generation Glide platform at an exclusive media event to be held at the Peninsula Hotel in New York City.
Glide http://www.glidedigital.com is a hybrid synchronized local, online and mobile desktop that is device, network, platform and format neutral and fully integrated to provide one click access from any one Glide application to another. The Glide Operating System is rights and identity based, designed to create a secure personal and social environment to protect content and the right to privacy.
Glide 2.0
"We are excited to announce today that the all-new Glide 2.0 platform will be unveiled on December 6, 2006," said TransMedia's Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. "The new Glide comes in three versions: Glide Next for Consumers, Glide Business for Enterprise and Small Business Customers, and Glide Campus for Universities and Colleges."
The new Glide features a boldly redesigned user interface, increased user storage capacity and a streamlined registration process eliminating the credit card identity verification requirement. TransMedia has also developed proprietary software to simplify the way Glide handles and distributes multiple complex tasks improving stability, increasing system performance and creating cost efficiencies for file storage, transcoding and streaming services. These advances will enable Glide to continue to scale and achieve significant cost advantages over competitors in the development of online software and services. In addition, TransMedia has significantly expanded its Glide data centers deploying new infrastructure to meet the increasing demand for its rapidly growing user base.
With the launch of the second-generation platform, Glide elevates software as a service to the next logical step; full-featured web based applications that rival the power of local desktop applications from vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe. New additions to the Glide application suite include:
1) The Glide Online Photo Editor & Print Shop
Glide provides photographers of all skill levels with a powerful feature rich, and intuitive interface for online photo editing. Glide offers over 75 filters, effects, and photo manipulation tools in a browser!
First time users will love Glide's easy and intuitive photo editing interface. Professional users will appreciate the powerful photo editing feature set unprecedented in an online application.
2) Glide Presenter Beta
Create elegant multimedia presentations of any size and securely share with an unlimited number of people with a complex hierarchy of permissions. You can grant view-only, download or edit access to your presentations and allow users to upload or download content, and even set expiration dates to end their access. Also, you can track who is viewing, downloading and modifying your presentations. Glide Presenter is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint and offers a wide selection of elegant themes.
Glide Presenter is fully integrated with Glide Write as well as the entire Glide application suite including Calendar, Photos, Music, Videos, Documents, Contacts, Bookmarks, Personal Websites, Blogs, Email, Conference, Glide Mobile, Glide Sync and more.
3) Glide Write beta
Glide Write adds important new features including advanced document formatting and templates as well as the ability to post Glide Write documents not only to Glide Blogs but also to major third-party blogging services.
Glide Write is fully integrated with Glide Presenter as well as the entire Glide application suite including Calendar, Photos, Music, Videos, Documents, Contacts, Bookmarks, Personal Websites, Blogs, Email, Conference, Glide Mobile, Glide Sync and more.
4) Glide Spreadsheet beta (Scheduled for Release on October 31st, 2006)
Glide Spreadsheet beta will be simultaneously released in local desktop and browser-based versions and will support powerful spreadsheet functions including advanced formulas and macros.
Glide Spreadsheet will be fully integrated with Glide Write and Glide Presenter as well as the entire Glide application suite including Calendar, Photos, Music, Videos, Documents, Contacts, Bookmarks, Personal Websites, Blogs, Email, Conference, Glide Mobile, Glide Sync and more.
5) Glide Mobile
Glide adds support for the Motorola Q, Rim BlackBerry 8700c/g, T-Mobile SDA, Palm Treo 700p, Palm Treo 650, Samsung SPH-I730, O2 Xda IIs, Blackberry 7100 Series, Nokia S60/90, Sony Ericsson P900, HP iPAQ h6315, Kyocera 7135, Audiovox SMT560, Audiovox PPC 6600 Pocket PC, Motorola MPx220, Motorola V276 and the Motorola E815 EV-DO in addition to the already supported Palm Treo 700w, Sony Ericsson W600i and Motorola RAZR V3.
Glide Next pricing and additional features will be announced on December 6, 2006.
Glide Business & Glide Campus
Since 2003, TransMedia has been servicing Fortune 500 companies and tier one universities with secure media management and file sharing solutions. "With the release of Glide Business and Glide Campus, TransMedia is bringing the user-friendly and dynamic Glide platform to its business and university customers," said TransMedia's Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka.
Glide provides a comprehensive set of tools to easily and cost effectively run your organization; manage your divisions, departments, workgroups, employees, customers, vendors and your organization's most critical files and information.
Glide automatically synchronizes all the desktops in your organization storing and backing up all of your users' files and information and providing comprehensive mobile access from laptops and smart phones based on rights and permissions. Glide Sync effectively protects your organization's most critical assets by automatically backing up documents, images, audio, video, contacts, calendars and more so that your users are considerably less likely to lose critical files and information.
Glide Business and Glide Campus support the administration and management of multi-tiered user groups with a complex hierarchy of rights and permissions. In order to achieve easy and secure collaboration across divisions, departments and workgroups, users can create rights based access lists to manage projects in real-world scenarios beyond the confines of the organization chart. Glide Business and Glide Campus come with the Enterprise Version of the Glide Application Suite that also includes Glide Project designed to support project collaboration.
Glide Business and Glide Campus pricing and additional features will be announced on December 6, 2006.
