Product History
The company's first product was Sharpcast Photos, software designed to make it easier for people to view their photos on multiple devices and share them via the Internet. In December 2006, Sharpcast made a deal with Alltel for Sharpcast Photos to be the "standard and exclusive" sync tool for the wireless carrier's Windows Mobile-enabled smartphones. Deals were also made with Lexar and Corel to provide backup services to their customers.
Sharpcast Photos was shut down at the end of January 2009. Users were given the option to migrate to the SugarSync service or retrieve their photos.
SugarSync was launched in March 2008. The software is designed to sync all of a user's files (documents, media, photos, etc.) across multiple machines.
In 2006, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington said about the company's field: "It's the future. The question is whether Sharpcast will be part of it or not. If they execute, they will be."
SugarSync also works as an online backup utility and users can access their data from a personalized subdomain on the SugarSync website under the structure of username.sugarsync.com.
SugarSync differentiates itself from competitors by employing an automatic refresh of its sync. SugarSync does not require users to schedule updates of synced files; instead, SugarSync constantly monitors changes to files—additions, deletions, edits—and syncs these changes with any other linked devices as well as the SugarSync servers.
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