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If you use a PC, a laptop, and a PDA, you have undoubtedly experienced the ordeal of trying to keep all of your personal data coordinated on these different devices. And now you have to do the same for your cell-phone? Fortunately, you won't have to -- thanks to a new syncing solution for the Internet Age.
Instead of copying dates and contacts from machine to machine, fusionOne Inc. has launched a service that does all the updating automatically for you over the Internet. Using its eDock service, you can upload your personal information to the site, including email and notes, contacts and appointments. Then set up several Internet-enabled devices -- say, another PC at home, a laptop computer, a PalmPilot, and a cell-phone -- and have eDock automatically update each device every time that it's connected to the Web. Its Internet Sync engine ensures that the information you view in eDock is the same as what you see on your mobile devices.
Using a Nokia 7190 cell-phone with Omnipoint's wireless service, I took eDock for a test-drive. I got 25 MB of free storage online for my Microsoft Outlook planner, which enabled me to view my calendar from any PC with Web access. I could also select phone numbers and contacts to send automatically to my cell-phone -- no cables required.
At press time, fusionOne's service was still in its trial stages. But in the future, fusionOne will let WAP-enabled cell users view the thousands of contacts that won't fit in a cell's limited memory. And eDock will soon offer full service for Net-accessible PDA fans.
Coordinates: eDock, fusionOne Inc., www.edock.com
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