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Oracle has unveiled new versions of its Sun Ray Client and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software it runs on, the first time the products have been updated since the company acquired them in its purchase of Sun last year.

In January, Oracle pledged to continue Sun’s “desktop to datacentre virtualisation strategy”. The new Sun Ray 3 Plus Client device and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.1.1 update to its connection broker software, introduced on Wednesday, demonstrates its commitment to that pledge, the company said. Oracle’s desktop virtualisation products, inherited from Sun, include VDI, Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray and VM VirtualBox.

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Mark November 8, 2009 (11/8) on your calendars, dear readers.

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Spotify, our favorite online music-streaming jukebox, has just added offline music to its desktop version, bringing it into line with the excellent but flawed iPhone version.

Spotify is a piece of software that lets you play pretty much any music you like. It already keeps a “secret” cache on your computer and uses that to serve music to other users. Think legal BitTorrent for music, but with an instant-on that makes iTunes look even more sluggish than usual.

The iPhone version will let premium users (people who pay €10 or £10 per month for the ad-free service) store up to 3,333 tracks on their devices for offline listening. The la

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