14 DAY TRIAL // GoWare announced the launch of DoMo (Do More with your mobile), a service that lets mobile phone users create personalized mobile portals that conveniently deliver all their content through a single page on the mobile browsers. Using any browser, users can access Web content (news, blogs, podcasts), PC files (documents, photos), and application data (email from Outlook, financial data from QuickBooks, for example), quickly and easily from their mobile phone.
DoMo is a browser-based system that includes an easy to use PC-based application that lets the user build, manage, and share the mobile portal. The users can quickly add content from their hard drive, the Web, and from proprietary or secure services (the latter through DoMo's plug-in system). Once the user has created the categories and chosen the content, they simply select the model of their phone and a corresponding template, and DoMo automatically generates their portal.
To access their portal, users browse from their mobile phone directly to the DoMo login page. GoWare's authentication servers will quickly re-direct them to their PC where the DoMo PC application will serve them their portal. Users can also choose to have their portal available even when the PC is turned off. In this case, GoWare's authentication servers will re-direct users to the DoMo Command Center where their mobile portal has been synchronized. The user can also easily share the content on their portal with family, friends and colleagues, assigning them secure access rights to specific content. DoMo also includes an integrated messaging system that allows users to communicate with each other in a shared-portal situation.
DoMo's open architecture offers developers the opportunity to add customized content. For example, through a plug-in library, the user may select Wells Fargo Online Banking as a data source. The plug-in would require the user to specify credentials and DoMo would then act as a "proxy service," retrieving and rendering the data into the user's chosen template. Plug-ins are HTML and .dll-based and allow users to extend the functionality of DoMo without having to upgrade the software.
All of these features are made possible by DoMo's support of multiple open-standards technologies, including XML (RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, ATOM 1.0), XHTML, WML, and XSLT, to gather and render the user's content into their mobile portal. The mobile portal is pre-generated into WAP or XHTML, and graphical elements are cached into the mobile phone's browser, to increase the overall performance when being browsed by the user. Users will be able to download the DoMo beta here.