June 2005 Archives

Motion Computing Launches LE1600TC Tablet Client. The unit is priced at $1899 and runs Embedded XP.

Notebook - the thorn in the thin client's side by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Not a year goes by where Sun and others don't extol the virtues of thin clients -- devices of limited intelligence that provide access to enterprise applications. [Sun Ray 1g Ultra-Thin Client, at right.] To be a really good thin client these days, a device must support the primary protocols of terminal-based access to certain applications. [...]

Interesting article on the strategy of Apple going to Intel and how one day thin clients dominate.

ICICI Bank to deliver kiosk-based e-banking to rural India using thin client terminals.

A German PC shop is shipping a tiny Geode-based thin client running Windows CE 5.0. Concept Distribution's "miniTC" measures 5.5 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches (13 x 14 x 3.5cm), and is also available as a "miniPC with a 40 or 80 GB hard drive.

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that the high-performance, energy-efficient VIA Eden Platform will be integrated into the new HP Compaq t5125, t5520 and t5525 thin clients.