desktop applications
Five iPhone apps for business
News Names such as Oracle, SAP and Sybase, to name a few, have released iPhone versions of applications that allow users to tap some of the functionality afforded with the traditional desktop versions. Since the launch of Apple's App Store, a steady... [04 Sep 2008]
Microsoft to launch mobile apps store offering?
News This version includes an updated browser, which is supposed to make internet surfing on a mobile phone look and feel like it does on a desktop. It appears the software giant expects to launch an applications store called "Skymarket" this autumn for... [01 Sep 2008]
IBM sends $300m to the cloud
News By using a lot of these virtualisation techniques, when you want to move your workspace from your office we would be able to transparently move your applications and desktop so you'd be up and running. [20 Aug 2008]
Microsoft Windows set to retire?
News Such an approach would free up people to use the OS to access information and services on a wide range of mobile and desktop devices.silicon.com Public Sector Leaked documents, reportedly seen by the Software Development Times, are alleged to show... [05 Aug 2008]
LiMo adds browser-based UI kit to arsenal
News The bridge translates JavaScript and HTML commands into Desktop Bus commands, which LiMo already uses to let applications and services talk to each other. The mobile Linux company Movial officially joined the LiMo Foundation on Monday, bringing... [05 Aug 2008]
User Task Flows: Bringing the User Into the Development Process
White Paper This technology greatly expands the robustness of the user experience and blurs the distinction between desktop and web-based applications. Today's web applications support the editing and manipulation of data, allowing a much more robust dialogue... [04 Aug 2008]
Consolidated Minerals Deploys Expand to Increase Application Response Times Across Network to Remote Offices
White Paper CSM also chose to utilize Expand's QoS feature to improve responsiveness of "Real-time" applications such as Telnet and remote desktop applications, which are critical to their business operations. Consolidated Minerals(CSM) is an independent West... [04 Aug 2008]
HP StorageWorks Virtualization
White Paper Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure, and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications, desktop clients, or other types of storage clients. [01 Aug 2008]
Virtualization from the Data Center to the Desktop
White Paper Originally focused on consolidating resources in the data center, virtualization now has applications across the IT spectrum, driving down costs and improving capabilities and performance. Enterprises worldwide are embracing a digital work style to... [30 Jul 2008]
BT's Ribbit buy to take on Android?
News Ribbit's technology brings together communications over mobile phones, landlines, desktop applications and internet applications. For example, the company's Amphibian application - which is yet to launch - lets voicemail be managed like email on... [30 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Across the various IT teams and whopping £1bn annual tech budget at TfL there are about 500 direct employees (nearer 1,400 when you add in the outsourced pieces), supporting 14,000 desktop PCs, 14,000 handheld devices, 30-plus data centres and... [29 Jul 2008]
White Paper: Nokia One Business Server - A Breakthrough Advance for IT Management of a Mobile Enterprise
White Paper The wealth of corporate content that now exists was created for the "Big screen" - the large monitors on desktop and laptop PCs. With the introduction of new mobile applications, however, come new administrative challenges. [23 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment It was nearly impossible to keep two mobile and three desktop devices in sync. At the front of the pack, the best autosync function applications have now spread across email, address books, diaries, photos, music, movies, documents and more. [22 Jul 2008]
Microsoft widens its Live Mesh web
News The vision for Live Mesh is broader - envisioning people sharing data among Macs, PCs, and various devices, as well as opening up the possibility for desktop applications to add online components, and web apps to add offline components. [18 Jul 2008]
Virtualization in Education
White Paper When it comes to desktop computing in Education, flexibility is key. This white paper discusses how virtualization technology can help connect educators and students to applications and information from almost any device. [15 Jul 2008]
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