Cloud Computing: Cross-device interaction and wearable electronics at Citrix Synergy 2013

Grazed from TechWorld.  Author:  Sophie Curtis.

Amid a slew of product announcements designed to enable “mobile workstyles,” Citrix is already looking ahead to the next phase of enterprise innovation, with a focus on cloud computing as a platform for new mobile services.  Speaking to Techworld at the Citrix Synergy conference in Los Angeles, Martin Duursma, VP of Citrix Labs and CTO Office Chair, described a project called “Crystal Palace,” which aims to break down barriers between operating systems that prevent devices from interacting in a seamless fashion.

Crystal Palace is a cloud service that all of the user’s devices are registered to – say for example an Android smartphone, an Apple iPad and a Windows laptop. An agent runs on each device, and can send instructions to the agents on the other devices via the cloud service…

So if the user wanted to copy and paste a line of text from an SMS on their mobile phone to a document on their laptop, they could simply copy and paste the text into a cloud-based copy buffer, and when they presse ‘paste’ on their desktop the words would appear in the document…

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