Archive for November, 2007

Amazon Kindle

November 25, 2007

Just yesterday I wrote about a new technology from Cisco to enable people to meet over great distances. Today I discovered that Amazon has released its new product called Kindle.
There has been a dream for a number of years to produce a device that would be similar to a book but yet be electronic. [...]

Telepresence Revisted

November 25, 2007

Back in January I wrote a post titled Telepresence which covered the concept of extending the Citrix model to better simulate remote environments for the sake of working together across great distances. Recently I attended a Gartner conference in Sydney where Cisco was demonstrating a solution which far exceeded anything I had seen before. [...]

Second Citrix Building in Coral Springs

November 13, 2007

I’ve reported about 210 University, Coral Springs and even included pictures in a previous post. However, I have never showed you the view from space using Google Earth.

Click this image to fully expand the view. Note that Citrix left this building in 1997. I uploaded pictures of 210 University to Google and [...]

The Virtual and The Real

November 12, 2007

From a title like that, it is not that hard to conclude that I am a fan of the Matrix movies. There was something powerful about the first movie that really had not been told before. Besides the fact that they produced a movie with some of the most advanced special effects of [...]

Obsolete Operating Systems

November 10, 2007

Obsolete! When the next version of operating system comes out, the previous one is deemed unwanted. This happens in a number of industries including automobiles, fashion, and entertainment devices (games and video players).
The question becomes “How often and for how much?”. In Microsoft’s case, the length of time is based on a number [...]

ICA Client Object: ICA Simulation API

November 9, 2007

Today I had a question about using ICA Client Object with the Simulation API. It made me realize that it is not common knowledge that such a thing exists. I found a public copy of the API on a Citrix web site. At one point the documentation was restricted since it was [...]

Myxer at Demo07

November 7, 2007

Myk Willis (ex-Citrix) recently gave a presentation at Demo07 for a new feature of the Myxer platform.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185153705/bclid1202130136/bctid1205096326
Very interesting demo although it would have probably been better to pick a nicer web site. Bill Madden (demo god) is the one driving the demo.
Also, it looks like the mVisible name has been dropped.  Myxer appears to be [...]

XenDesktop and PortICA

November 5, 2007

The evolution of names is always interesting to watch.  Citrix likes changing names to better suit the market it wants to address.  Based on the recent acquisition of XenSource, there has been a shift in focus to better embrace the virtualization market.  As part of this, the Citrix Desktop Server has been renamed to XenDesktop.  [...]