CARLSBAD, USA: TransMedia has launched the all-new Glide OS 3.0 universal computing platform at the D Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.

Glide is the complete mobile desktop solution featuring more than 20 advanced productivity and collaboration applications with both offline and online access. Glide runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile -- and supports over 75 mobile devices. Glide is available in 18 languages including English, Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

"Wouldn't it be great if you could have one compatible file and information management system and one compatible set of applications for all of your devices and what if you could extend that compatibility to everyone you communicate, share and work with?" contemplated TransMedia Chairman & CEO, Donald Leka with the audience at the D Conference. Leka continued by explaining "that was the goal when we set out to build Glide -- to develop a technology that could cut -- or Glide -- through proprietary OS, hardware, software, file format and network barriers -- like butter."

Glide OS 3.0 has many new features and an all-new design. Key Glide Applications include:

-- "One" (Synchronization for Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows)
-- Glide Mobile (Full Suite of Glide Applications for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile)
-- Glide Photo Editor
-- Glide Write (Word Processor)
-- Glide Presenter (Presentation Application)
-- Glide Crunch (Spreadsheet Application)
-- Glide Ad-Free Email
-- Glide Groups & Projects
-- Glide Meeting - Video, Audio & Text Chat With Integrated File Sharing
-- Glide Calendar
-- Glide Contact Manager
-- Video Jukebox
-- Music Jukebox
-- Slideshow Creator
-- Widgets (Calculator, Stickies, RSS Reader, Weather, Music Player etc.)

Glide Web applications use a combination D/HTML, AJAX and Adobe Flash. Mobile and embedded devices can also access the Glide OS via HTML, XHTML and WAP and CHTML web browsers. Glide OS native applications on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and mobile and embedded devices use a common C++ code base. Native applications communicate and synchronize with the online Glide OS via Web services.

Glide offers a comprehensive application suite for Linux (both 32- and 64-bit) that is cross-platform compatible making it possible to take Linux mainstream and provide an attractive and powerful alternative to Windows and Mac.