Comdex '99: keeps growing from its roots
News The Information Appliances area includes "smart" cell phones; handhelds running Windows CE or Palm OS; and other mobile, Internet-connected devices. Small, smart devices ranging from Internet phones to set-top boxes, wireless e-mail-reading PDAs...
[November 11, 1999, 11:15]
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]
Intel getting inside consumer apps
News Intel doesn't just want to just be inside your computer -- the chip maker is now looking at creating a host of information appliances, ranging from smart Internet phones to Web tablets. Eighteen months in the making, the strategy is aimed at...
[January 5, 2000, 8:14]
M-commerce will flop - Forrester report
News Despite the lack of direct m-commerce sales, however, wireless Internet appliances will have a greater indirect impact, Forrester says. Internet-connected PDAs and smart-phones that combine the functions of a wireless Web browser and an organiser...
[September 6, 2000, 15:56]
The kitchen gets connected
News The Internet Home Alliance, a group hoping to expand the market for connected devices into the home, is set to unveil a prototype of a Web-connected kitchen that lets people control their appliances remotely.
[March 27, 2003, 8:03]
Home networking spreads round globe
News More recently, Panasonic has said it plans to start selling a "smart home" system that -- among other features -- lets users control household appliances through mobile phones. Although the fridge is too expensive to sell widely at S$19,999 (£7...
[August 8, 2003, 10:25]
Symbian to drop Microsoft in favour of Opera
News On the heels of that announcement, Opera unveiled an agreement with IBM, via which IBM will embed a version of Opera for the QNX operating system on IBM's NetVista Internet appliances. The deal does not call for Symbian to license Opera for the...
[May 29, 2001, 17:17]
Handhelds: More social, less secure
News Currently, it's not a big deal but it portends a grim future for Internet appliances in the future," said David Perry, director of public education for antivirus vendor Trend Micro. By mid-2001, the research firm forecasts that all cell and PCS...
[August 30, 2000, 13:26]
Comdex 2001: Device makers expand on wireless
News In many ways, these new devices can be considered full-fledged Internet appliances as they connect directly to the Web, or through a cell phone bridge, rather than through a PC. The TM-910 is smaller than most US cell phones and is more...
[November 12, 2001, 16:32]
PC Expo: What's hot ... and not
News Meanwhile, Ericsson has announced its own plans to branch out beyond phones and develop PDAs and Internet appliances. Sony is also planning to develop smart phones based on Java and the Symbian OS (Symbian is a joint venture of Psion (quote: PON...
[June 27, 2000, 9:07]
Jesse Berst: What MS and AOL are really fighting about
News Future Internet appliances Smart phones Cell phones In reality, the nipping and growling is about a much larger and more important issue -- a giant new market that's just coming into being. An IM program alerts you when a friend is online; then you...
[August 9, 1999, 10:01]
Embedded chips chase gadget market
News Sharp is aiming the LH7A400 at colour handhelds, Internet-surfing appliances, and smart phones. The embedded market -- which encompasses products ranging from cars, air conditioners, and factory automation equipment to TV set-top boxes, cell phones...
[April 11, 2001, 10:44]
Sun buys Diba to attack set-top box market
News Diba, is a two-year-old Silicon Valley pioneer in designing software and hardware for the world of "information appliances", futuristic devices such as handheld e-mail terminals, smart phones and mobile Web browsers.
[July 31, 1997, 16:21]
Crusoe chip mystery to be revealed
News Instead, it more likely will be aimed at cellular phones, Internet appliances and possibly handheld devices such as Microsoft's Pocket PC. If Crusoe is targeted more at Internet appliances or cellular phones, as has been suggested, the impact on...
[January 17, 2000, 8:56]
