THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY July 24, 2003 Internet appliance
________________ SPONSORED BY: AMD 64-bit computing software If you need more performance or are developing new applications, you may want to consider migrating from 32-bits to 64-bits. Wondering how much work is involved and which enterprise apps will most benefit? Find out here. http://WhatIs.com/r/0,,16212,00.htm?amd ________________ TODAY'S WORD: Internet appliance See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci914561,00.html An Internet appliance (sometimes called a Net appliance, a smart appliance or an information appliance) is a machine designed for a specific function that also has a built-in Web-enabled computer. Internet appliances include small devices created especially for e-mail and Web surfing, as well as such diverse products as personal digital assistants (PDAs), smart phones, Web TV, and Web-enabled refrigerators and microwaves. The proliferation of such devices is a crucial component of the anticipated development of pervasive computing. Experts predict that for specific Internet appliances to catch on, they must be easy to use and provide a practical solution to an every-day problem. One of the first Internet appliances was a Coke machine at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980's. A group of programmers, working several floors above the vending machine, wanted to ensure that they wouldn't make the long trip downstairs only to find the machine empty or receive a warm Coke. The enterprising programmers wrote a server program that tracked how long it had been since a storage column in the machine had been empty. By using an Internet connection and a finger command, the programmers could check the status of the machine and determine whether or not there would be a cold drink awaiting them, should they decide to make the trip down to the machine. ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: Corecom provides The Internet @ppliance Industry Report. http://www.corecom.com/ia/ Emory University offers a tutorial, Emerging Technology Scan: Internet Appliances. http://www.emory.edu/BUSINESS/et/appliance/ A First Monday article discusses The Visible Problems of the Invisible Computer: A Skeptical Look at Information Appliances." http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_9/odlyzko/ Carnegie Mellon University's Web site provides The Ancient History of the CMU Coke machine. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt ______________________ RELATED TERMS: pervasive computing http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci759337,00.html Web-enabled refrigerator http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci914545,00.html ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: EMC ENTERS THE CAPACITY-ON-DEMAND FRAY EMC has taken a new tack toward on-demand storage. The company is offering an automated billing system that tracks storage usage of every component in a customer's SAN and allows new components to be activated and billed for instantaneously. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci916018,00.html BLUETOOTH STUCK IN THE DOGHOUSE Enterprises aren't using the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology to the extent many once predicted, but experts say there are plenty of reasons why it should take its rightful place alongside Wi-Fi. http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid40_gci915883,00.html MICROSOFT SLIMS DOWN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Microsoft plans to release a scaled-down version of its content management server for small businesses that want to build and manage content for the Web. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci915829,00.html >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com/ ______________________ Information Kit | Linux, Unix, and all the little ixes Get up to speed quickly, and be the Linux/Unix Know-IT-All at your office. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci915803,00.html ______________________ Secret Word-of-the-Day | What is it? 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