Nokia’s “super confidential” Sea Ray phone sneak peak

Below is a video presentation by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in which he shows off a “super confidential” device codenamed Sea Ray. Sea Ray looks virtually identical to the just-announced Nokia N9 and now includes a dedicated camera button and altered flash for the Windows Phone 7-based handset. There’s not much info on the OS itself apart from Sea Ray is running Mango, which includes multitasking, IE9 browser and deeper third-party app support with more advanced home tiles and camera support.    In the video, Elop is adamant that the presentation not get out to the “blogosphere”, but how would a video of this quality not get noticed and were the people not on NDAs or anything? S Read more…

Oracle updates Sun Ray desktop virtualisation

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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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