Such a gizmo sounds an awful lot like the tablet-sized, Web-surfing touch-screen gizmo some speculate Apple is working on.
But UMPCs cost nearly twice what the Foleo will sell for, making Palm's 2.5-pound Web-surfing and phone-syncing device seem like a bargain.
World-class surfing, stand-up paddle boarding and beach camping are just a few fun youth-inducing activities.
Pinched wallets are putting the so-called feature phone--which includes a camera, Bluetooth, text messaging and Web surfing capabilities--at risk, says Avi Greengart, research director of mobile devices at Current Analysis.
This tool reduces the amount of data sent to your browser--and therefore speeds up your surfing--by caching and compressing images.
Smart phones will have color screens that, when held close to the eye, create the illusion of an 18- to 24-inch computer screen suitable for Web surfing and viewing high-resolution pictures.
It's sounds like - as they say in surfing circles - it'll be a total wipeout !
Others who have studied the issue say the problem may lie as much in the act of watching TV--or playing videogames or surfing the Web--as opposed to playing outside.
Nikki Johnson said her parents were channel surfing Sunday -- looking for a cartoon for their granddaughter to watch -- when they saw video of their Shoshana being broadcast by Spanish-language television station Telemundo, before the family had even learned she was missing.
Its sleek wide-screen display--uncluttered by an ugly chiclet-style keyboard--is ideal for surfing the Web or watching videos.
Excessive net-surfing and television are leaving 12-year-olds suffering the symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation, say experts.
Even if you've seen "Citizen Kane" 50 times, when you come across it while channel-surfing, you might be hard-pressed to name the scenes on either side of the one you've stumbled on.
Of course we're talking about the iPhone, Apple's music-playing, Internet-surfing cell phone.
It was the kind of place where I should have a clear shot to half a dozen cell phone towers, and five bars of call-making, web-surfing smartphone goodness.
Today's consumers use the Internet in their own particular way for e-mail, web-surfing and so on, but, the bulls argue, tomorrow's will think of it more as a form of interactive television, with many people watching the same material.
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Unveiled on the NAB show floor, the 35, 000-lumen and 25, 000-lumen models display extremely crisp and bright images -- big-budget car commercials and surfing footage basically pop off the screen.
The built-in touchpad makes web-surfing a pleasure, while channel and volume buttons are on the edge for easy access.
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In recent years, couch-surfing website Airbnb has also been a hot start-up.
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Though these handsets appeal to large numbers of consumers, carriers typically give them less support because music-listening and photo-snapping aren't as profitable as e-mailing or surfing the Web.
Actually, I find Microsoft users are a bit like young Republican voters in the States: it's not cool to publicly say you like them but what you do when you are alone--voting, or Net surfing in Microsoft's case--is your own affair.
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Instead of ever more powerful machines, consumers will want cheaper, lightweight Linux-based laptops that function mostly as Web-surfing vehicles.
In the first episode, a studly son saves the ownership of the family plantation for her in a winner-take-all surfing contest.
There will be demand for basic, isolated entry-level models for many years to come, especially in developing countries, where AA-powered gadgets are still the norm and surfing the web means a 20-minute trek to an internet cafe, where browsing and social updates are billed by the minute.
It's couch-surfing writ large, and the pioneering website Airbnb has transformed itself into a formidable rental-by-owner behemoth that's giving established agencies a run for their money and inspiring a legion of followers.
As for the possibility of passengers offending their seat-mates by surfing for inappropriate content, Blumenstein said nine months of Wi-Fi availability on American yielded no such incidents.
Somewhere on there is a timer of the minutes you spent yammering away on the phone -- not texting, not surfing the net, but actually engaging in voice-to-voice communication.
As a 13 year-old surfing the web from his bedroom, Zach Sims, now the 22 year-old CEO of Codecademy, spotted easy money.
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Karpathos is small, stretching seven and a half miles in length and a mere two miles at its widest point, yet it manages to squeeze in a great variety of landscapes, making it perfect for outdoor pursuits: world-class surfing beaches, roads with soft hills ideal for cycling, and shimmering, glass-blue water for swimming and snorkelling.
Drive up the Windward Coast to the North Shore for surfing, stand-up paddle boarding and windy walks out to Kaena Point.
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