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Net Appliances: The Next Frontier
News Manufacturers have simply not made a strong case for net appliances, he said. In order to appeal to consumers and to keep from competing with low-cost PCs, analysts have said Net appliances should be priced below $300.
[November 22, 2000, 8:56]
PC Heavyweights Bet On Net Appliances
News Dell, meanwhile, is putting together a plan to deliver a set of offerings, ranging from Net access to networking hardware, that will allow PCs and appliances to interact and share content over a network.
[August 21, 2000, 12:25]
Gateway Turning Off Net Appliances?
News As part of its renewed focus on maximising PC sales, Gateway is pulling back from the nascent market for Internet appliances. Although the San Diego-based company will continue selling its two existing appliances, it is taking a second look at...
[March 6, 2001, 15:04]
Transmeta Set To Release Linux For Net Appliances
News Transmeta plans to release its version of the Linux operating system for Internet appliances and other devices as early as next week so that developers can begin testing it. Mobile Linux is used in Internet appliances from Gateway, Hitachi and others.
[February 16, 2001, 11:13]
National Semi Revamps Net Appliance Chip
News At this week's Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, California, the chipmaker announced a new design for delivering increased performance to its Geode system-on-a-chip processors for Net appliances. The announcement comes after the recent demise...
[June 15, 2001, 8:39]
Gateway-AOL Appliance Blasts Off
News The computer makers may be looking for the next big thing to replace PCs among home users, but so far the market reception for Net appliances remains cool. Gateway's new Web terminal is the first of three Net appliances that will use the Instant...
[November 10, 2000, 8:29]
Networks '99: Remote Toaster Claims World First
News Designed to demonstrate "that appliances previously thought too small to be controlled remotely over the Net can be brought into this ever-expanding market", the RMN stand was doing a brisk trade in handing out toast to hungry visitors to the...
[June 29, 1999, 11:38]
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]
It's Sony's Turn To Offer A Web Appliance
News The unit features a 15-inch, portrait-style monitor, giving the device a distinctly longer shape than most computers or Net appliances. The win is big for the Menlo Park, California, company, which has been touting its operating system as well...
[January 8, 2001, 16:10]
High-end Home Networking On Hold At Cisco And 3Com
News Home networking is still in its infancy, but analysts expect the market to take off in coming years as more consumers get high-speed Net access and want to connect their computers, appliances and electronic devices.
[January 9, 2001, 16:18]
Sony Postpones Net Appliance Release
News EVilla features a 15-inch monitor that is longer than the displays on most computers or Net appliances. While recognising that other companies have had a tough time selling Net appliances, Sony said its device has something the others don't: name...
[April 2, 2001, 15:19]
Home Networking Gets A Jump Start From New Tech
News Home networking is still in its infancy, but analysts expect the market to take off in coming years as more consumers get high-speed Net access and want to link their computers, appliances and electronic devices, such as Web-surfing appliances...
[January 5, 2001, 9:20]
The Day Ahead: A Look At What's Next For Micron Electronics
News On Net appliances He said Micron will be rolling out new Net appliances in upcoming months. Net appliances aren't a cash cow, but can deliver services revenue. No one gets rich on Net appliances," he said.
[June 22, 2000, 13:23]
Future Net: Six Technologies To Make A Bulletproof Web
News Liberate, formerly Network Computer, is not really about creating those appliances, although it provides the underlying software and servers that will make cellular phones, pagers, cable set-top boxes and other devices attach easily to the Net and...
[September 7, 1999, 16:09]
Net Savvy Washing Machine From Ariston
News The margherita2000.com, which has a built in modem, is the first in the company's upcoming line of Net savvy Ariston digital household appliances. Ariston digital products will communicate over the GSM network using WRAP (Web Ready Appliances...
[December 6, 1999, 10:17]
Net May Run Out Of IP Space - TCP/IP Pioneer
News Cerf, who carried out early work on TCP/IP at Stanford University, and is now MCI's senior vice president of Internet architecture and engineering, said an onslaught of wired appliances is set to swamp the Internet years earlier than expected.
[February 10, 1998, 13:31]
PADs: Net-subsidised Give Away Gadgets? - Analysis
News You replace a lot of other silicon," says Graham Jackson, National Semiconductor's European appliances manager. The move towards silicon-starved appliances chimes with the low-cost PC trend, said Jackson: "Banks, for example, could give away free...
[July 16, 1999, 16:52]
Intel's Brave New Home
News In Intel's vision, these networks will be populated with a variety of Internet appliances and powerful home PCs. What are the barriers to realising the potential of the Net economy? One of those barriers is the slow Net access speeds that most Web...
[July 26, 2000, 11:45]
PC Expo: Net Apps And Wireless
News That will be the pitch from Gateway and AOL, which will be demonstrating Net appliances that use Transmeta's Crusoe processor, Mobile Linux OS, and the Netscape Gecko browser. Dubbed Instant AOL, these devices are part of the AOL Anywhere strategy...
[June 27, 2000, 9:08]
Introducing The 'system On A Chip'
News Integration also will mean lower-cost systems, reduced power consumption and the ability to produce smaller Net appliances, National Semi said. Competitors in the market include Transmeta -- whose chips are being used in the much-publicised America...
[September 19, 2000, 8:05]
