If ViewSonic has its way, its information appliances will soon be just that kind of prestige item.
Why on the list: arm is the main designer of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips used in such battery-powered information appliances as handlheld PCs and mobile phones.
That's a hard act to follow, but it looks like he'll be getting a shot as the new CEO of Ambient Devices, makers of the Orb and other friendly glowing information appliances.
Rise is targeting the 166-mP6 model at information appliances, such as set-top boxes, DVD players, and Windows terminals, while the 233-mP6 and 266-mP6 versions are aimed at portable and desktop PCs, the company said.
The era of "information appliances" - electronic gizmos designed to tap into the Internet, often for specialized transactions - is approaching, and with it the end of the PC as the primary tool for online access.
Mr Kusnetzky predicted that sales of information appliances - from stripped down terminals used primarily to access to the internet, to smart mobile phones and handheld computers such as the Palm Pilot - would outpace PC sales by 2004.
Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget calls it an example of "the consumer interface for the 21st century, " an organization that appears to hold the elements to deliver all types of news and entertainment through all kinds of devices, be they TVs, PCs, or information appliances.
Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances' power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere.
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Now that you have written down the information from your appliances, check for recalls at www.recalls.gov.
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While there is nothing concrete to report from Kimera yet on this front, one can think of various scenarios where your car or kitchen appliances might use context information about you to something interesting.
Always-on broadband links help too, since they enable appliances to send and receive information whenever they want to.
It was followed in the top 10 by Suning Appliances, whose major shareholder is Chinese billionaire Zhang Guiping, and Gome Appliances, which is controlled by jailed Chinese billionaire Wong Kwong Yu. (For information about the Forbes China Rich List, click here.) The association ranking is based on sales.
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Sharp Electronics Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of one-of-a-kind home entertainment products, appliances, networked multifunctional office solutions, solar energy solutions, LED lighting and mobile communication and information tools.
About Sharp Electronics Corporation: Sharp Electronics Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of one-of-a-kind home entertainment products, appliances, networked multifunctional office solutions, solar energy solutions, LED lighting and mobile communication and information tools.
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