They will take a variety of forms: television set-top boxes, fixed-screen telephones, smart mobile phones, handheld computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and network computers (NCs).From almost nothing, IDC predicts that the sale of such appliances will nearly match that of PCs in 2002 and thereafter greatly exceed them.
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Using our telephones and smart devices, we could gather around the television and vote for all the other Philip Greens (the UK supports loads of them).
They also suggest purchasing UCP Backus, a Peruvian brewer, because more beer is quaffed during warm weather, and selling Telefonica del Peru, because heavy rains could interrupt the installation of telephone lines.How smart are these bets?
That's not really our issue". But, Irwin said, the impact of a strike used to be much more significant when customers didn't have the Internet and smart telephone menus that can respond to the human voice.
Furthermore, I think there will be more billions, maybe twice as many, of what we call smart telephones".
Demand for palmtop computers, organisers and smart telephones is currently held back by the need to enter data using awkward symbols and a clumsy stylus or cramped keyboard.
If the next big wave in digital technology puts powerful computer brains in products like TV set-top boxes, smart telephones and hand-held computers -- where Intel is weakest -- the company's strategy with Merced could leave it beached.
However, smart telephones could be dominated by Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, which recently announced a joint venture with Psion to establish the British handheld computer specialist's EPOC operating system as "the standard for wireless information devices".The most glaring threat is to the PC makers.
If Microsoft can establish a new Internet-based platform, its fortunes will no longer be tied so closely to those of the PC, and it will be better placed to profit from the expected proliferation of non-PC devices, such as smart telephones and set-top boxes.The rise of.NET does not mean that Microsoft intends to abandon Windows, however.
