VirtualLogix’s VLX virtualization software for mobile handsets was selected by ST-Ericsson for its new low cost Android-Ready smartphone platform, Infineon Technologies Mobile handsets.  ST-Ericsson and VirtualLogix are in the second year of their partnerhip in incorporating VLX into ST-Ericsson reference platform. VirtualLogix has also confirmed that, working with Infineon they have successfully integrate and test VLX software with an Infineon mobile handset reference platform.

Citrix and Novell have agreed to collaborate on Linux Virtualization platform through the virtualization compatibility program from Novell.  Novell has certified Citrix Xenserver as a host platform for it SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.  The partnership means that customers who want to run SUSE Linux as a guest on XenServer can do so with the assurance that they will get support from both Novell and Citrix. Both companies said the collaboration will expand the choice for customers through increase virtualization interoperability.

Dolby Laboratories has launch Dolby Media Generator, a new Media software and has announced that they are collaborating with Omnifone to use the new media format for Omnifone’s cloud based services.  Omnifone will be using Dolby’s Media Generator encoding software to encode its entire global music catalogue of 6.5 million tracks into the Dolby Pulse file format.

Wyse last month released the latest version of its Wyse TCX suite, version 4.0.  This new version according to Wyse is more comprehensive in that it seamlessly work with VMware View, Microsoft Terminal services, Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp.  TCX suite also features a Collaborative Processing Architecture (CPA) an intelligent architecture which divides the workload between the client and the server.

VirtualLogix this week launched version 4.0 of its VirtualLogix VLX mobile platform software.  VLX is a virtualization application software for mobile handsets; it works by creating operating system and hardware platform independence, as well as enhanced device security and improved performance for multimedia and gaming applications, VLX is a key enabler of the latest ARM-based consumer devices.

VKernel announced the release of a new version of VKernel Optimization Pack – a virtualization management and optimization software. According to VKernel the new version is powerful, easy to use and affordable and will help organizations achieve maximum return on investment (ROI) from their virtualization projects.

Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), today announced the completion of long-term research and development to provide formal mathematical proof of the correctness of the microkernel technology underlying OKL4, the company’s mobile virtualization platform. This groundbreaking project involved NICTA, the company’s incubator and investor, OK Labs staff, researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and other prestigious institutions.

NEC Corporation said that their newest enterprise server, the NEC Express5800/A1160, has established a world record in overall VMmark(TM) performance benchmark results.The record-breaking score - 34.05@24tiles, was achieved using the NEC Express5800/A1160 *3 server, which was configured with 8 sockets populated with the Intel(R) Xeon(R) X7460 processors, powered by VMware ESX(TM) 4.0.

Citrix Systems and Microsoft have expanded their desktop virtualization partnership to develop an application that enable enterprise customers to manage all Windows desktops and applications through a common platform.

This month LG Electronics will release its new SmartVine N-series monitors with embedded virtualization. The new system will allow the monitors to function as virtual computers allowing multiple users to use the system at the same time.