P2P comes to the PDA

With Java to boot. It's all terribly exciting...

By Pia Heikkila, 3 October 2001 18:00

NEWS Peer-to-peer company Endeavors Technology and Java specialist Insignia are to collaborate on a PDA software initiative. The deal will see Insignia's JeodeT PDA-specific Java virtual machine software integrated with Endeavors' Magi peer-to-peer software. The technology developed will be tailored for the limited memory resources and browsing requirements of PDAs and related handheld devices. JeodeT PDA edition has native compilation tools and supports the Java security classes needed to build secure PDAs. Magi employs security tools within its product such as certificates for public key authentication, file encryption and a secure sockets layer (SSL).

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