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Running Android on an iPad

First Published on June 3, 2011 - 2,554 Views

I wrote last week about Silicon Valley start-up BlueStacks Systems and its new cross-platform solution that can run Android on top of Microsoft Windows. At the time I suggested that BlueStacks might be an interesting partner for Citrix as a way to extend its reach to supporting Android applications with very little effort.

Well guess what, at the Citrix Synergy keynote last Wednesday Citrix Director of Mobile Technologies Gus Pinto demonstrated Alphonso Lab’s Pulse News for Android running within the Citrix Receiver for Windows running on a HP touch enabled desktop PC.  Watch the video, it’s outstanding.

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BlueStacks opens its doors

BlueStacks opens its doors

First Published on May 24, 2011 - 1,189 Views

Silicon Valley startup BlueStacks Systems will open its doors tomorrow to launch what looks to be a tempting proposition for enterprise IT and consumers alike.

BlueStacks is introducing a multi-OS runtime that can seamlessly integrate Android, Windows and Linux applications onto a x86 single platform. In many respects it’s easiest to think of BlueStacks as being Android’s Parallels for Windows, running a virtualized copy of Android on top of Windows.

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VMware extend the virtual workspace beyond the horizon

First Published on May 20, 2011 - 1,158 Views

Desktop computing entered an inflection point in April last year with Apple’s launch of the iPad.  As with many transformative events, it is easier to see their importance looking back than it is to see their significance at the time, and in this respect the iPad is no different. The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg came closer than most in grasping the potential of the iPad in saying.

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Bitzer Mobile presents new twist on mobile application virtualization

First Published on January 17, 2011 - 1,158 Views

In my series on the challenges and opportunities inherent in Context Aware Computing, I showed how the Wireless Abstraction Library (WALL) markup language when used in conjunction with the Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) database can build web apps that will work on almost any mobile device. The combination of the WURFL and WALL create a powerful tool for the building new mobile-ready applications, but the approach while ingenious is far from perfect.

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RIM looks to privacy concerns to regain initiative in face of competition from "Bring You Own" programs

First Published on January 14, 2011

After months of vacillation RIM is finally getting its act together and attempting to regain some of the initiative in the enterprise phone market by announcing its intention to offer IT the ability to establish boundaries around those aspects of a device it controls and those that it leaves in the hands of its owner/user. Blackberry Balance, which is expected to be launched in the next month or two, is RIM’s attempt to  mollify enterprise IT admins who require the ability to control enterprise data on employee owned devices, while giving a clear message to employee’s that it is also thinking about their expectations of privacy on both employee owned and enterprise provided devices.

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Motorola, Citrix and the Holy Grail – Updated

First Published on January 5, 2011

With sincerest apologies to Monty Python

At CES today Motorola announced the introduction of the first hyper-phone; the Motorola ATRIX 4G which will be available from AT&T. According to Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, the ATRIX 4G is the fastest phone on the market. It is fitted out with Android 2.2 running on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 SoC which sports a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1 Ghz processor.

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