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DEC's 40 years of innovation

DEC's 40 years of innovation

...word-processing software and was thus a very early stand-alone office information appliance. The VT-52 was followed by the even more iconic VT... Read more

12 February, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Compaq licenses BeOS for Net apps

...a licensing deal with PC maker Compaq to incorporate a BeOS-based information appliance platform, code-named Stinger, into the PC giant's next-generation... Read more

21 December, 1999 by Robert Lemos

Comdex '99: The battle for the 'information appliance

Symbian, Microsoft, Sun, Palm -- all have their own vision for the info appliance of the future. But none of those visions are compatible Read more

18 November, 1999 by Richard Barry

Gateway's plan to bring back Amiga

Gateway is set to revive the Amiga legend. But will it be the real McCoy? Read more

12 August, 1999 by ZDNet

NatSemi unveils 'information appliance-on-a-chip

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16 July, 1999 by Tony Hallett

Beta released of Linux-to-BlackBerry sync tool

Information Appliance Associates, the creator of the original Mac-to-BlackBerry sync solution... Read more

8 October, 2008 by Dong Ngo

The downside to Netpliance's upgrade

There's no question among analysts and technophiles that the information appliance market has a lot of potential. Ask them how to tap... Read more

7 July, 2000 by Richard Shim

Linus and the Mobile Linux chip

...the company's Crusoe processors will also work with Windows software, for information appliance applications it will push Linux. "If Transmeta went to Microsoft and... Read more

31 January, 2000 by Robert Lemos

VIA VT6010 Mini-ITX Motherboard

If you want an entertainment PC or information appliance for minimum cost, the VT6010 is small and cheap enough to... Read more

24 April, 2002 by Jonathan Bennett

Handspring VisorPhone

A Springboard module that makes the Visor a truly mobile information appliance Read more

2 March, 2001 by John Morris

Windows Operating Systems = Bloatware

...as an “embedded” operating system. As a touch screen enabled bistro table “information appliance” yeah, I'll buy that idea. Something to put inside a... Read more

19 October, 2009
Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC

Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC

...iPhone is more like an iPod than a computer — it is an information appliance. Users and developers have to be educated to accept this. These... Read more

27 March, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

IDF: Ultramobile Intel processor breaks cover, adopts Linux, gets alliance.

...portable devices with a bit of welly - just the right mix of information appliance and flexibility. As for the rest of the keynote - be thankful... Read more

18 April, 2007
Linux is Dell's big chance

Linux is Dell's big chance

...With so much functionality now on the web, the idea of the information appliance is back — and this time, it makes sense. Once upon a... Read more

1 March, 2007 by Leader

Korea's fifth city completes first stage of open source move

...its open source adoption strategy. Gwangju Metropolitan City, which counts auto manufacturing, information appliance and opto-electronics among its main industries, was designated an open... Read more

28 December, 2006 by Hyangseon Lee

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

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apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

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songmaster

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Chris Wortman

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PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

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Leslie Satenstein

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Andy Bolstridge

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Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

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