Citrix taps into the power of iOS 4.2 on the iPad

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Citrix CEO Mark Templeton couldn’t resist jumping the gun a little this week with a sneak peek at Citrix Receiver for iOS 4.2 on the iPad.

Even though Reciever is a one-client-fits-all front end for getting to Citrix’s remote computing product suite, there were still a few good reasons for punchlining his Keynote speech at Citrix Synergy in Berlin with a little demo of a complete Windows Server corporate desktop, made visible on an iPad. (A hint for any of you intending to pull off this kind of demo with an iPad – don’t point a HDTV camera at the device while you are logging in: the on-screen keyboard has letters quite large enough that you’ve just invited a room of 3,000 people to watch you type in your password.)

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Remote working in the real world

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Despite the fact there’s no way I’ll be able to work at home for years (anyone who’s got young children will know exactly what I mean), I’m absurdly fascinated by home working – to the extent that I’ve started drafting some notes for a book on the subject. (Any browsing book publishers, feel free to email me large cheques now.)

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