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Wireless Linux Web pad demonstrated at CeBIT

A Web pad running the free Linux operating system was demonstrated for the first... Read more

23 March, 2001 by Will Knight

Sony launches TV with Web-pad remote

...plasma TV with built-in broadband networking that is linked to a Web pad-like remote control by wireless LAN technology. The KDE-P50HZ1 and... Read more

5 August, 2003 by Staff

PC Expo: Net apps and wireless

...based computer-maker, will be demonstrating an Internet appliance called the Aqua Web Pad, though details of the device are sketchy. Fresh from the launch... Read more

27 June, 2000 by John Morris

Gateway, AOL attack Wintel

Gateway's announcement yesterday that Transmeta would supply chips for their Web pad Internet appliances generated a lot of hoo-ha about the decline... Read more

31 May, 2000 by Jesse Berst

Has Transmeta's chip finally come in?

...year. They include a desktop appliance, a countertop machine and a wireless Web pad device, all of which will provide Internet access, email and instant... Read more

31 May, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Hitachi updates Linux tablet PC

Flora-ie 55mi is Hitachi's latest foray into the tablet PC market Read more

18 April, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Do you need the Android marketplace to be a 'proper' Android device?

...want on something that's not a phone. Do you want a Web pad/tablet to have smartphone-style apps? (iPad advanced orders seem to... Read more

30 March, 2010

Do we really need keyboards?

...you happen to be. In some ways, Mira is descended from those "Web pad" appliances (such as 3Com's Audrey) that popped up a few... Read more

15 March, 2002 by David Coursey

CES: Microsoft aims to simplify wireless world

...cell phone is completely different from programming for a PDA or a Web pad, no developer is going to target all those devices." The .Net... Read more

9 January, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Comdex 2001 preview

Attendance is likely to be down on last year, but there willl still be plenty to see at Comdex 2001 Read more

9 November, 2001 by James Corrigan

Six big trends of Comdex '01

...be "proof of concept" devices, but Taiwan's Tatung will debut a Web Pad for real use, the first to use Microsoft's next-generation... Read more

8 November, 2001 by Patrick Houston

Internet house takes you back to the future

...control the house and get Net access via any device he wants -- Web pad, laptop or mobile phone -- from around the house or in the... Read more

10 July, 2001 by Martin Fiutak

Transmeta chips to cool off Intel

Can Intel defend itself if it is being attacked from four directions? Read more

23 March, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Intel releases details of Web Tablet

...Show. Its closest competition comes from AOL and Gateway, which launched a Web pad running on a mobile chip from Intel competitor Transmeta in November... Read more

27 February, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

A Year Ago: Crusoe chip gets first suitor

...of the Crusoe processor and plans to reveal designs for a mobile "Web pad" featuring the revolutionary new software-based chip. According to an S3... Read more

20 January, 2001 by Will Knight

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