PopBox makes it simple and affordable to play all the movies, music, home videos, and photos from your home PC and network-connected devices, and content streamed from the Internet, on your HDTV.
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An 802.11b network is meant to specifically replace the Ethernet cords you now need to connect your PC to a local area network.
And if you have a home network, any PC in the home--up to a limit of 255 computers--can get access to those files.
The data eventually move to a base station 12.5cm tall, from where the info is sent to a PC or onto a wireless network.
The data eventually move to a base station 5 inches tall, from where the info is sent to a PC or onto a wireless network.
An unfortunate omission is the ability to stream video over a network to a PC (present on the previous MS1000 model), which, so Hitachi claims, it left out to keep the product simple to use.
These publications join previously announced strategic partnerships with USA TODAY, the Financial Times, the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, MIT's Technology Review, Popular Science, and IDG publication titles, including Macworld, PC World, CIO, Network World, and Computerworld.
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However, to avoid such latency issues, users will only be able to connect the console to a PC on the same home network - although Mr Huang said it was an ambition to allow them to go "beyond the house" with future devices.
This is especially relevant as we have seen hackers move from attacking the network to attacking the PC.
Security solutions based on physical infrastructure, and policy expressed in terms of a particular device, the corporate PC, an IP address, network port, or application protocol are becoming useless in a mobile, borderless world.
The camera is designed to network easily with a PC, record short video bursts as well as still images, and allow the photographer to accompany still images with five seconds of natural sound or a brief narration using a built-in microphone.
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The game launches sometime in January 2013 for PC, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and the Nintendo eShop.
In most office environments, and even a few homes, that Ethernet cord is a PC's lifeline to the local network, peripherals like printers, and the Internet.
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But PC prices dropped, and the economics of network computing collapsed.
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an international, non-profit standards association, representing a global network of hardware, software, PC, display, and component manufacturers committed to developing and promoting the electronics industry.
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an internationally leading non-profit standards organization, representing a global network of hardware, software, PC, display and component manufacturers committed to developing and promoting the electronics industry.
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The problem for broadband users is that relatively few homes have the home network needed to connect both a PC and a handful of other devices to a single cable modem or digital subscriber line.
The HP DreamScreen, a companion to the PC, connects easily to a wireless or wired network to bring photos, music and video into any area of the home.
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Using the Windows "Play To" feature, users can select and send music wirelessly from any Windows PC, tablet or smart phone connected to their home network.
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Similarly Kaspersky Labs' anti-virus software lets one copy update itself via the net and then copies on other PC can download updates from that machine via the home network.
All would have a wireless network connection and would presumably be connected to a PC, though the type of connection used wasn't revealed.
But then it all rather fell apart as those network effects went into reverse as a result of the PC.
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Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
Users can share media from their handset to a PC, notebook, or television, and vice versa across a network (whether a home network, enterprise network or WLAN), using the easy to set-up device.
The Swiss firm Logitech(13, LOGI) is a small but leading company in PC peripherals like mice, trackballs, keyboards, Web cams, headsets and network music systems--with particular clout in cordless devices.
If the cheapest way of getting something in your living room which will play movies, stream video content from your Media Center PC, if it's the Microsoft vision, or directly off the network if it's the Sony vision, for 300 bucks, that's a lot cheaper than today's media streamers or even TiVo-like devices.
Because the remote is a full peer in the network, you can do anything with it that you can do with the PC or Mac software, including updating the entire system.
Just like cloud-based IT architectures portend reduced PC usage and risk to PC suppliers like Dell, Microsoft and Intel, they create similar risks for private network equipment suppliers like Cisco.
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