Consumer electronics (CE) vendors and service providers are seeking standards-based Wi-Fi home networking solutions for HD video distribution to enable consumers to easily stream video content between CE devices, set top boxes (STBs) and personal computers (PC).

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He is particularly focused on Navio, a consumer-software consortium recently launched by Netscape and others designed to make sure that Windows and Windows CE (its consumer-electronics cousin) do not become the standard for interactive television and game machines.

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Sharp Electronics unveiled its Mobilon TriPad PV-6000, a Windows CE-based computing device that can be used in three different operating positions: standard notebook (clamshell), pen tablet (slate), or easel mode.

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