Citrix has announced two applications for the iPhone which are virtually quite interesting.

The first is called Citrix Receiver which is a secure client application that allows you to run Windows applications over a Citrix network. Citrix also unveiled an "App Store" for IT applications called Dazzle allowing managers to offer specific applications to their clients on both Mac and Windows. Dazzle and the Receiver application for Macintosh will be on the Apple site in the second half of this year.

The outfit has released a demo of their new virtualisation software XenClient for the Mac which will enable the Mac to run Microsoft's Windows in conjunction with Mac OS X. Apparently it is a faster and more secure virtualisation software than is around at the moment.

Parallel's and VMWare's virtualisation software needs to run under a host operating system such as Mac OS X. XenClient runs directly on the "bare metal" hardware.