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Chromebook looks like another Googleflop

...mainly at large corporations who are generally sympathetic to the idea of dumb terminals, and might even have a few attached to their old-fashioned... Read more

10 November, 2011
Ten Linux apps that need to raise their game

Ten Linux apps that need to raise their game

...Linux Terminal Server Project. LTSP is a good idea if you want dumb terminals, but given the Live distributions we have today, shouldn't a... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Jack Wallen

Photos: Spider Phone - the mobile that thinks it's a smartphone, a tablet and a laptop

...designed to transform into a variety of other gadgets - by docking into dumb terminals that mimic the form factor of gadgets such as tablets and... Read more

15 September, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

To the cloud! Or not...

...always connected and significantly locked down in various ways (once known as dumb terminals and thin clients, now in sexy cases and with physical advantages... Read more

9 June, 2011

Get users diskless with Linux thin client

Thanks to new thin client technology, the old dumb terminals aren't such a dumb idea after all. Any way to... Read more

2 April, 2003 by Vincent Danen

Fujitsu smartens up dumb terminals

Fujitsu ICL today announced a range of Windows-based Network Computers, as Netscape, Oracle and Sun closed ranks to... Read more

28 October, 1996 by Arif Mohamed
Pano Logic Pano System 2.8

Pano Logic Pano System 2.8

...that are assigned to users as required. Pano Devices are small, completely dumb, terminals. Measuring just 89mm by 89mm by 50mm and weighing 500g, Pano... Read more

9 March, 2010 by Roger Howorth

Cryptography experts debate cloud-computing risks

...not see a lot of differences between it and client-server and dumb terminals. "It's still all about trust," he added. Ronald Rivest, a... Read more

22 April, 2009 by Elinor Mills
A Canadian solution to Africa's digital divide

A Canadian solution to Africa's digital divide

The concept of refurbishing PCs from developed countries for use by Kenyan schools is based on a model conceived in a very different climate Read more

3 October, 2007 by Andrew Donoghue
Is the OLPC project doomed to failure?

Is the OLPC project doomed to failure?

NComputing chief executive Stephen Dukker writes that a computer cannot exist independently of the basic economic realities that govern the world Read more

7 August, 2007 by Stephen Dukker

The KISS-off for virtualisation

...etc., it's rare to find such a setup that links to dumb terminals only. It looks like IT managers are still working out if... Read more

11 April, 2007

What makes you stressed?

...make the life of the IT department easier since the days of dumb terminals. It hasn't happened. And although systems can always be fixed... Read more

15 May, 2006 by Leader

Bringing computing to India's masses

...Sun with little success. Thin clients, sometimes known as network computers or dumb terminals, effectively are used only to communicate with a server; the server... Read more

5 July, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

iPod lights the way for IT

...combine harvester. It's a lesson that seems to have disappeared with dumb terminals, and which only point-of-sale people seem to have remembered... Read more

19 May, 2005 by Leader

Hanging on to PCs

...and reloaded with a MetaFrame client application that lets them function as dumb terminals. Linked to an ever-growing bank of application servers, the refurbished... Read more

17 August, 2004 by David Braue

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