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Back to the future with internet appliances

Back to the future with internet appliances

The Netpliance I-Opener was one of the pioneers in a class of web... Read more

8 July, 2010 by Ina Fried

The downside to Netpliance's upgrade

...Ask them how to tap that market and the answers dry up. Netpliance, which signed up 22,000 subscribers in its first four months of... Read more

7 July, 2000 by Richard Shim

I-Opener no longer a $99 Linux PC

...for just $99 ($£61) and some hardware tweaking, will soon learn otherwise. Netpliance has delayed shipping some orders placed before March 20 to alert buyers... Read more

6 April, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Net appliances: The next frontier

...uncharted territory is never easy. The recent withdrawals of information appliance pioneer Netpliance and Virgin Entertainment Group give some indication of the obstacles that lie... Read more

22 November, 2000 by Richard Shim

Netpliance spirals towards collapse

Netpliance, pioneer of the long-awaited net appliance I-opener internet access device... Read more

2 February, 2001 by Ron Coates

IPod gets penguin power

...as Microsoft's Xbox, 3Com's ill-fated Audrey and the late Netpliance i-Opener. In theory, Leach says, an iPod running Linux should be... Read more

6 February, 2003 by Ian Fried

Red Hat ready to tackle Microsoft's desktop dominance

Although its primary business is in server software, Linux company Red Hat is looking at the desktop market Read more

24 June, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

National Semi revamps Net appliance chip

...Compaq Computer, and a less-than-stellar track record for market pioneer Netpliance. Audrey used Geode chips, as do Compaq's iPaq appliance, Emachines' MSN... Read more

15 June, 2001 by John G.Spooner

Gateway turning off Net appliances?

Computer giant adopts new strategy in drive for PC sales Read more

6 March, 2001 by Ian Fried

It's Sony's turn to offer a Web appliance

...they probably already own a Sony product. Internet appliance makers, such as Netpliance, that have targeted Net neophytes have found the going tough, and even... Read more

8 January, 2001 by Ian Fried

Gateway-AOL appliance blasts off

...show, with several vendors expected to make Net appliance announcements at Comdex. Netpliance, which recently dropped the price on its i-Opener Net appliance from... Read more

10 November, 2000 by John G.Spooner and Richard Shim

Neutrino OS is Unix flavour of the month

...microkernel operating system that powers 3Com's new Audrey Net appliance and Netpliance's iOpener. QNX also markets a "microGUI" windowing interface called Photon, which... Read more

20 October, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

3Com's Audrey - no place like home

...aim at a segment of the market that other competitors, such as Netpliance, Compaq Computer, eMachines, and the newly minted S3 spin-off Frontpath, have... Read more

18 October, 2000 by Richard Shim

Is Microsoft going down the tubes?

...for business, has BSD Unix at its heart. Consumer Internet appliances, like Netpliance's i-opener, also are typically Windows free. Microsoft itself, with its... Read more

12 September, 2000 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

Crusoe chip mystery to be revealed

Can the world's most secretive technology company change the world? The folks at Transmeta think they can. Read more

17 January, 2000 by John G.Spooner

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BrownieBoy

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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