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Wyse PocketCloud aims to get your desktop anywhere you are

by Michael Rose (Jun 28th, 2011)

If the name Wyse sounds familiar, it's probably because the company has been doing remote access since the days of acoustic couplers and 300-baud modems. Founded in 1981, it has evolved from its early days of creating 'dumb terminals' to become an industry leader in virtual desktops, giving users ...

Patent hints at Apple's Spaces on the iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 31st, 2011)

PatentlyApple has dug up a patent application Apple filed with the USPTO, which demonstrates that Apple is at least considering bringing Spaces to the iPad. While not mentioning the iPad by name, the patent does say that "In some embodiments, the device [for this patent application] is a ...

VMware brings virtual machines to iPad

by Dana Franklin (Mar 9th, 2011)

Earlier today, VMware, Inc. announced the availability of VMware View Client for iPad on Apple's App Store. The free app enables enterprise and government users to securely access their virtual desktops, applications and data from anywhere with wireless internet access. Unlike VNC clients ...

VirtueDesktops Developer Calls It Quits

by Mat Lu (Mar 12th, 2007)

Tony Arnold, the developer of the free virtual desktop program VirtueDesktops, on Saturday announced that he is no longer going to develop the software. Citing Leopard's forthcoming Spaces and the time necessary to work on the project as reasons, he has decided to stop development at this time. He ...

VirtueDesktops update brings lots of changes, bug fixes

by David Chartier (Feb 27th, 2007)

VirtueDesktops, the virtual desktop manager of choice, recently updated to version 0.54 beta 2 with a major set of changes and bug fixes. This forum post at cocoaforge rounds up all the changes of a few recent builds, including this latest beta. To summarize: the main gist is a lot of focus on UI ...

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