12/22, 10:15am
Motorola confirms buying Zecter for ZumoDrive tech
Motorola Mobility on Wednesday quickly confirmed that it had bought Zecter in a minor hit to iOS. The takeover gives it access to the technology behind the iOS apps ZumoCast and ZumoDrive and will be used directly to push cloud access on its Android phones, including in the Motoblur layer. Zecter's technology will be used for "wireless syncing, desktop integration, video transcoding and thin-file retrieval technologies" to provide access to content from home on the phone, Motorola said.
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12/21, 5:10pm
Motorola may buy iPhone app maker Zecter
Motorola was claimed on Tuesday to be acquiring key iPhone app developer Zecter. The startup, best known for ZumoDrive and also ZumoCast, could be bought out in the last few days of 2010. TechCrunch has heard it would be the last deal made before Motorola Mobility splits off on January 4, although the new mobile group would be the one to absorb the employees.
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07/27, 11:55am
ZumoCast promises personal media cloud
ZumoDrive, the creators of a namesake remote storage iOS app, today started taking signups for a public beta of ZumoCast. The service creates an effective personal cloud for the iPad, iPhone and web by allowing shares of music, photos and videos online: a companion Mac or Windows app greenlights individual files or whole folders. Formats are transcoded on the fly before going through to the iOS app or browser and will save the trouble of converting files online.
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