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Desktop Mobile Brings Mobile Remote Control

Virtual Network Computing and its client, Idokorro Mobile, has issued a service called Mobile Desktop. The new service allows users to remotely connect to a computer using their BlackBerry wireless devices, view the screen and even control the keyboard and the mouse. Virtual Network Computing specializes in windows terminal services and remote desktop services for mobile devices, and many people have high hopes for Mobile Desktop.

Using Mobile Desktop you can access files, manage computers, run a Web browser, run any application, or provide remote support from your handheld. Mobile Desktop gives you full control of your computers from anywhere that you can use your BlackBerry device. Mobile Desktop can be used to connect to computers including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, Novell Netware, QNX, OS/2 and more.

Mobile Desktop supports SSH tunneling for secure VNC connections. If you are using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, all data sent between the server and your BlackBerry device is encrypted using Triple Data Encryption Standard (TDES) or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). All Terminal Services or Remote Desktop connections are encrypted with RC4.