The business is now starting to look like that of any other pricey appliance.
However, that strength was offset by continued weakness in industrial and appliance demand in China.
When the appliance is reactivated by pressing a button, it goes back into standby mode.
But the fact remains that consumers have rejected automated appliance controls in the past.
Consequently it has survived and supported giant waves of innovation in the appliance market.
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Reinhart is also trying to make appliance chips more open in design, with standardized commands.
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And last fall, it gave away a Mini to any customer who bought a Search Appliance.
Through satellite phone connection you can connect any Wi-Fi appliance, smartphone or computer directly to Internet.
Now you can buy a Google Mini search appliance like a cheeseburger--single, double or triple.
"Strictly speaking, adMart is not an electronic appliance retailer, " says Frederick Sin, operations director at Fortress.
Maybe they get a new appliance because the dishwasher or the washing machine is broken.
Needless to say, we discover strange electrical issues every time we plug in a new appliance.
So why not deploy an intelligent appliance behind the router and in front of the firewall?
Last month appliance maker Applica announced it was moving 300 jobs north to Broward.
The problem is much larger than one manufacturer or one type of appliance, however.
On Wednesday, Google is rolling out the fifth major version of its enterprise search appliance.
The news sparked a rally Monday in home appliance stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Maron-1, by contrast, seems like a cute little home appliance that you could actually use.
ViewSonic, a privately held manufacturer of flat-screen displays, is getting into the information appliance market.
The HANA high performance analytics appliance has been seeing a lot of traction in enterprises.
The hotel offers are likely to continue just like my home appliance ads have.
Whirlpool, the home appliance maker that sells washing machines and refrigerators in Sears stores, slumped 8%.
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Customers would be free to use other fridges, even making someone else's their default appliance.
Google is promoting alternatives including its Google Search Appliance, Google Site Search and Google Commerce Search.
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It's not Sony's first attempt at making the PC a central appliance in the entertainment universe.
But the company does not want to be simply the cheap-appliance king in the Philippines.
True, the smooth-talking motormouth from your neighborhood appliance store probably makes such claims regularly.
They tried to force a household energy storage system to be a refrigerator-sized appliance.
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Swedish household-appliance leader, Electrolux (nasdaq: ELUX - news - people ), will rebound, too.
The PC is the toaster of 2010, a useful appliance to be thrown away when it breaks.
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