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Smart Displays: a first look
Talkback Smart Displays Ok, smart displays will probably have their place in home theatres. What if all you want to do is be able to have a remote monitor (Infrared.with no bells and whistles really cheap. Does this exist?
[November 12, 2003, 15:52]
Smart Displays allow admins to roam
News Find out what ZDNet reviewers thought of the Philips DesXcape 150DM, ViewSonic airpanel V150 and ViewSonic airpanel V110 Smart Displays. Smart Displays offer much of the mobility and convenience of the PDA and even more power than most laptops...
[July 17, 2003, 10:56]
Smart Displays: a first look review
Reviews This might be OK for hardware that cost a couple of hundred pounds, but Smart Displays are going to be considerably more expensive than that. Smart Displays are, according to Microsoft’s Web site, liberating, empowering and convenient.
[December 3, 2002, 8:47]
Smart Displays - good riddance to dumb technology
Talkback That's a good point, but the fact remains that the critisicism levelled at Smart Displays throughout their short lives - and not just from us - centred on the madcap licensing issues. We'll probably never know exactly what killed 'Mira', but once...
[January 8, 2004, 13:00]
ViewSonic sets UK launch for Smart Displays
News The first gadgets based on Microsoft's "Smart Displays" concept are arriving in the UK, but their price tags may cause some potential buyers to hesitate. Smart Displays can function as a flat-screen monitor or a wireless tablet that controls a base...
[February 10, 2003, 13:57]
Sharp displays Mira-style smart screen
News Philips and Viewsonic have developed Smart Displays, but have smaller screens compared with the Sharp mobile TV as they are meant for personal, close-up use. Sharp's attempt at a mobile, battery operated screen echoes that of Microsoft's Smart...
[May 9, 2003, 8:40]
Smart Displays - good riddance to dumb technology
Talkback I was ready to buy the Viewsonic AirPanel last February but I was waiting for prices to drop. I was also waiting for 802.11g support. Licensing didn't bother me at all. If I was surfing remotely, it didn't bother me that the main desktop was...
[January 9, 2004, 15:18]
Smart Displays - good riddance to dumb technology
Talkback The so called failure doesn't really lie in the licensing problem as suggested. Infact the limited functionality is to blame for. Remote Desktop protocol does not fully support directX which means that that two of the three main purposes surved by...
[January 7, 2004, 8:38]
Smart Displays - good riddance to dumb technology
Talkback I thought the smart display would be perfect to surf around the house. I was looking at buying one of these monitors (the 10" airpanel to be specific) but with the recent announcment I doubt I will. I use my home PC for gaming and surfing.
[January 18, 2004, 11:24]
Microsoft's 'Mira' delayed
News Microsoft has benched "smart displays" for the couch-potato set, delaying the launch of the handheld flat-panel screens until the first quarter of 2003 so that it can fine-tune the underlying software.
[October 15, 2002, 13:36]
Microsoft Mira hung up on licensing
News Microsoft is to launch its latest foray into the consumer electronics market on 8 January with Windows Powered Smart Displays, formerly code-named "Mira", flat-panel monitors that let users interact with their computer from around the house.
[November 28, 2002, 14:44]
Microsoft to fix Mira's cracks
News Nancy Nemes, European product manager for Smart Displays, said that work on an update is underway. Smart Displays use Microsoft Terminal Services, a technology that was originally developed for Windows NT 4 Server to provide Windows sessions to...
[January 8, 2003, 13:58]
ViewSonic airpanel V110 review
Reviews When other companies release their Smart Displays, the products may come in different shapes and sizes. On the whole, however, all of these displays share the same core features (as dictated by Microsoft): an integrated processor and graphics chip...
[February 10, 2003, 13:56]
XP's smart display enables double vision
News A smart display, which Microsoft developed under the code name Mira, is typically a 10-inch or 15-inch detachable monitor running Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays operating system. The lack of concurrent usage has been one of the chief...
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
Plastic microchips ahead
News Areas likely to benefit from plastic processors include flat panel computer displays and smart appliances. Cheap plastic transistors would allow large TFT (Thin Film Transistor) flat panel displays, which use a transistor per each pixel, to be...
[November 27, 2000, 11:05]
Looking forward to 2003 review
Reviews The first Smart Displays in the UK are likely to come from ViewSonic and Philips. Smart Displays Smart Display is the official name for what we used to know as 'Mira', Microsoft's technology for providing access to your PC from anywhere in the home.
[December 19, 2002, 15:43]
Microsoft slashes CE.Net licence fee
News Among other products, Windows CE.Net is used in Smart Displays, portable handheld screens that can send and receive email and scroll through Web content when used in conjunction with a PC. So far, Smart Displays have been overshadowed by Tablet PCs...
[May 7, 2003, 15:01]
Sony launches TV with Web-pad remote
News The Sony plasma TV's remote unit has much in common with smart displays, which were launched in January this year from makers such as ViewSonic. These pads, which Microsoft developed under the code name Mira, are typically a 10-inch or 15-inch...
[August 5, 2003, 12:39]
Microsoft launches home networking hardware
News Many products planned for later this year, such as Windows Media Center, Tablet PC, Windows Media Player 9 Series and Mira wireless smart displays, all benefit from wired or wireless network connections.
[September 19, 2002, 15:50]
Comdex: It's a wireless thing
News Also on display will be Microsoft's other tablet: the Windows powered Smart Displays formerly known as Mira tablets. While tablet PCs are meant for business users, Microsoft is aiming its smart displays at the home, offering people a more portable...
[November 14, 2002, 12:23]
