Sentence examples for Web appliance from inspiring English sources

[C2.] Sun to Buy Web Appliance Maker Sun Microsystems said that it had agreed to acquire Cobalt Networks, which produces Web appliances, in a stock swap valued at $2 billion.

Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., plans to provide "end-to-end solutions" to clients through e-business services, software, chips and now, even a Web appliance that it will sell to telephone companies around the world.

Besides, he said, he was right to use "revolutionary" to describe Eisa.com's NEO iDVD, which lets consumers receive Internet content via TV with the "first family-focused, hybrid DVD and TV Web appliance of this type to be offered in the world".

Intels consumer Web appliance product strategy is designed to provide three major components–appliance management capabilities, services package building blocks, and a family of Intel-branded Web appliances designed for accessing the Internet.

"If you're going to try to build a Web appliance that's going to sell for $99 and you have to pay $5 to Microsoft for CE, why would you do that when you can get Linux for free and cut wherever you want," Gold noted.

The letter from Joan Hays ("A Way to the Web," Feb. 17), opted in favor of WebTV's and, I suppose, Web appliances because learning to use a personal computer was too difficult or too much trouble for "old geezers".

Mr. McEwen said the new system was so versatile that it could be adapted to operate not only on desktop computers but also on Web appliances and cell phones.

Cobalt, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., produces so-called Web appliances, which are relatively low-cost computers preconfigured and preloaded with software to perform specific tasks on the Internet.

Opportunities are everywhere in Web appliances, especially as homes and cars get more wired.

On Jan . 5 chip giant Intel intc announced it will sell Web appliances based on the Linux operating system.

Sega may be in last place now, but it has a lead in the race to transform game consoles and DVD players into Web appliances.