Award-Winning Online Meeting App on Android Smartphones to be Pre-Loaded with Citrix Receiver™ on DROID BIONIC by Motorola Through Verizon Wireless
Provides one of the best ways For Users to enroll in Meetings Instantly from Anywhere at Anytime, Transforming the manner People Work
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Citrix Systems today announced the growth of its growing line of mobile workforce solutions for the Android Market™ with the supply of Citrix® GoToMeeting® for Android. Available as a free app, Android smartphone users can have access to the industry’s easiest and most convenient mobile collaboration application to affix online meetings anywhere, anytime. Citrix® GoToMeeting® can also be pre-loaded at the DROID BIONIC by Motorola, the newest Android-powered device from Motorola Mobility arriving at Verizon Wireless on September 8, 2011. Motorola may also be pre-loading Citrix Receiver™, which enables customers to access their corporate Windows apps and documents on over one thousand million different devices, without reference to operating system or form factor.
“Worldwide Smartphone 2011 – 2015 Forecast and Analysis”
DROID BIONIC by Motorola follows DROID 3 by Motorola because the second Android-powered device to pre-load GoToMeeting and Citrix Receiver, making it easy and convenient for users to wait online meetings and access their applications, desktop and information while at the go.
Citrix believes its expanded mobile collaboration platform will ensure maximum work flexibility and support, providing businesses of all sizes new easy methods to stay connected and productive despite location – an idea Citrix calls ‘workshifting.’ Using Citrix mobile apps, people can join a gathering anywhere they take their mobile device – in a taxi, on a park bench, in an office or from any location.
“GoToMeeting may be available on Android tomorrow which opens a global of choice for our customers who depend upon our application for top-quality, secure and reliable web and audio conferencing. Today’s announcement underscores our company commitment to helping businesses – large and small – achieve flexibility and agility within the way they work for optimum productivity and success, anywhere at anytime,” said Bernardo de Albergaria, VP and GM, Collaboration, Online Services Division, Citrix Systems.
What’s New: GoToMeeting for Android Market
* Free GoToMeeting app for Android smartphone users: Attend meetings at the go by downloading the free app from the Android Market.
* Pre-loaded for convenience: Android users can access the pre-loaded GoToMeeting and Citrix Receiver app directly from the brand new DROID BIONIC by Motorola.
* Quick session entry: Join meetings in seconds by clicking a link in an email or clicking the GoToMeeting icon and entering the meeting ID.
* VoIP integrated audio: Quickly connect with audio during the Internet using the built-in mic and speakers.
* Audio controls: Mute yourself to eliminate background noise while at the go.
* Zoom in on meeting content: Zoom meeting content as much as 200% by pinching the screen.
* Portrait or landscape view: Flip your Android device to regulate your view of meeting content.
* See who’s attending: View an inventory of meeting attendees.
Why it Matters
* The realm of labor is not any longer confined to the office and collaboration solutions like GoToMeeting and mobile devices powered by Android are transforming the best way people work by enabling them to get work done anywhere, anytime – even while at the go.
* Citrix ‘GoTo’ mobile services ensure secure, reliable and high-performing support for the growing mobile workforce. This mobile portfolio includes apps for iPad that support GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC®, GoToManage® and GoToWebinar®; iPhone apps that support GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar; and now GoToMeeting for Android.
* Citrix is making collaboration possible at the go, transforming the manner people work, and enabling them to work wherever, whenever and however they choose.
IDC Reports Steady Adoption of Android by Business Users
“Device manufacturers have invested a great deal of time and resources to make their Android devices more enterprise friendly. Shipments of Android devices around the globe have increased at astounding volumes each quarter and enterprises recognize the productivity benefits from providing the ideal tools to a growing mobile workforce. IDC believes that vendors will ship a complete of 178.9 million Android-powered smartphones by the top of 2011 and reach 420.0 million units by 20151.” Stephen Drake, Program Vp, IDC’s Mobility and Telecom Research
Pricing and Availability
Citrix GoToMeeting for Android shall be available gratis from the Android Market at: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrixonline.android.gotomeeting
Citrix GoToMeeting for Android and Citrix Receiver for Android are pre-loaded at the DROID BIONIC by Motorola and DROID 3 by Motorola smartphone devices through Verizon and can be available without cost.
For additional info about GoToMeeting, visit www.gotomeeting.com. For additional info about Citrix Receiver for all platforms, including Android, visit www.citrix.com/receiver.
Related Links
* DROID BIONIC by Motorola Gets Enterprise Muscles with Citrix Receiver and GoToMeeting
* Citrix GoToMeeting and Citrix Receiver Pre-Loaded on DROID 3 by Motorola
* Citrix Receiver Now Helps Business Say “Yes” to Greater than 1 Billion End User Devices
Follow Us Online
* Citrix GoToMeeting on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GoToMeeting
* Citrix GoToMeeting on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/gotomeeting
* Citrix Receiver Cloud Demo Environment: http://citrixcloud.net
* Workshifting blog: http://workshifting.com
About Citrix Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a number one provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies right into a full portfolio of goods that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. Greater than 230,000 organizations worldwide have faith in Citrix to assist them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in additional than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
The net Services Division of Citrix provides secure, easy-to-use cloud-based solutions that enable people to work from anywhere with anyone. Whether using GoToMeeting® to hang online meetings, GoToWebinar® to conduct larger web events, GoToTraining® to coach customers or employees, GoToMyPC®to access and work on a remote Mac® or PC, GoToAssist® to support customers or GoToManage® for IT support and management, businesses and persons are increasing productivity, decreasing travel costs and improving sales, training and repair on a world basis. For additional information, visit www.citrixonline.com.
Citrix®, Citrix Receiver™, GoToMeeting®, GoToWebinar®, GoToTraining®, GoToMyPC®, and GoToManage® are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or a number of of its subsidiaries, and will be registered within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property in their respective owners.
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1 IDC “Worldwide Smartphone 2011 – 2015 Forecast and Analysis,” Doc#227367, March 2011.”
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