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The latest cool gadget - an Internet fridge
News UK consumers will soon be able to do more than just raid their refrigerator, by October they'll be able to talk to it and remote control it by hooking it up to the Net with a range of other home i-appliances.
[May 14, 2002, 11:28]
Virtual appliances
Blog I first heard of virtual appliances a couple of years ago during a trip to Sweden to hear about Intel's AMT technology. I was having lunch with Paul Di Leo, the CEO of Zeus Technology, a couple of weeks ago, and he is very excited about the...
[October 11, 2006, 15:56]
Email archving - who needs it?
Blog So we talked about the company's new status as a distributor for PineApp email archiving appliances: boxes that suck in your Exchange (or GroupWise et al) email files after a given period, and delete them after the retention period required for...
[November 5, 2009, 10:17]
When will virtualisation be real?
Blog There’s been plenty to munch into already reported on ZDNet.co.uk, but what caught my eye most of all was news that VMware had saved up all its pocket money to pump out news today that there is a new product devoted to development, deployment and...
[September 15, 2008, 20:11]
Accelerating a Security Appliance
White Papers Security appliances today increasingly combine multiple security functions - such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), firewalls, intrusion detection and/or prevention, virus scanning, and others - into a single "Unified Threat Management" (UTM...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Nat Semi announces PC-on-a-chip
News I believe in the next decade that information appliances will be one of the dominant devices within the so-called Internet world," says Acer Vice President Rick Lei. National's chip will serve as the brain of "information appliances," devices that...
[July 16, 1999, 9:31]
HP expands server appliance push
News Server appliances" are computers designed to handle chores on a network faster or with less fuss than general-purpose servers. But server appliances still show promise for HP. Server appliances have higher profit margins than general-purpose...
[April 19, 2001, 7:55]
Compaq trumpets PC resurgence
News Winkler, 55, who is also general manager of Compaq's Commercial Personal Computing Group, says the company will focus on areas including notebook PCs and Internet appliances to revitalise its bottom line and its position in the market.
[August 1, 2000, 14:23]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Sun buys Diba, coolest of cool Valley startups, and claimant to pioneering the term 'information appliances' which not many people understand but everybody knows is The Next Big Thing. Diba wants to be the keystone of domestic appliances such as...
[August 2, 1997, 8:00]
Open source moves into free hardware
News SOC chips are generally used in devices such as set-top boxes, Internet appliances and even some PCs. The processor -- which could be used in Web appliances, factory machines and other Internet-connected devices -- is based on a RISC (reduced...
[March 28, 2001, 8:22]
Vital intrusion detection
News Let's take a closer look at the network-based IDS and break it down further into two subcategories: appliances and software-based IDS. Appliances Appliances are complete and fully loaded systems that require no additional hardware or software to...
[May 15, 2002, 14:49]
Smaller is better, says AMD chief
News Ruiz said to expect AMD-based Internet appliances sometime in 2001 -- possibly some of them based on the Linux operating system. PC processors may be the dominant leg right now, but AMD is also targeting servers and Internet appliances -- legs two...
[June 27, 2000, 8:11]
Gateway-AOL appliance blasts off
News The quartet will demonstrate its new Web terminal in its natural environment: a networked digital home -- it is the first product in the company's eagerly awaited line of Internet appliances. The computer makers may be looking for the next big...
[November 10, 2000, 8:29]
PC Expo: Where are the PCs?
News Despite the rise of new technologies, including wireless PDAs, Internet appliances and smart phones, the PC will remain, in the foreseeable future, at the centre of the computing universe. Networked computing appliances, which rely on the PC as an...
[June 30, 2000, 8:23]
IBM takes on Sun's server dominance Pt II
News These are now small mainframes," said John Callies, general manager of IBM eServer appliances. Having 1,500 Linux images on one [mainframe] is drastically cheaper to manage than 1,500 separate appliances," Kusnetzky said.
[March 20, 2001, 8:52]
Compaq, Dell shy off Crusoe chip
News Also in the booth was Rebel.com, which announced plans to utilise Crusoe 3000 series chips, which are aimed at Internet appliances, in its Linux server/Desktop computer. Meanwhile, Transmeta also showed off, in its booth, a number of new appliances.
[June 29, 2000, 7:06]
The Day Ahead: Pondering an AMD-Transmeta merger
News Transmeta is hoping that it can produce chips for laptops to keep thing rolling until information appliances become popular. Transmeta's real meal ticket -- information appliances -- may be years away.
[January 4, 2001, 13:07]
Igaware
Talkback Their appliances go much further than just internet security, offering file serving, email serving and groupware (including openxchange). Igaware are probably the market leaders in the UK and I'm surprised they haven't been featured.
[February 20, 2007, 15:04]
Barracuda is FANTASTIC all the way to the bank!
Member Review Compared to other hardware appliances the Barracuda Spam Firewall is cost-effective and works like a charm. As a computer engineer I must say that the Barracuda Spam Firewall has a rich feature set and it is easy to install (just plug it in).
[December 15, 2004, 10:49]
VST Dual Media Reader
Downloads The SmartDisk Dual Media Reader allows you to quickly and easily transfer digital data, audio and image files from digital appliances to your computer. Hot-pluggable into your USB port with the integrated cable, it features two media slots...
[December 27, 2000, 6:00]
