Executives with Philips Electronics outlined strategy and gave advance demonstrations of new and upcoming peripherals, including a home networking system for consumers and thin-client products aimed at corporate users.
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To support this business, HP has for a long time supplied thin clients of various sorts, having acquired a thin-client business years ago along with the purchase of Compaq.
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Besides consumer products and technologies, Philips also showed products for corporate users, including the new NetDisplay line of thin-client devices, which include a 15.1-inch flat panel LCD color display with a built-in processor and video core.
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Oberweis has sold his holdings in thin-client computer company Neoware (nasdaq: NWRE - news - people ), drug-test kit maker American Bio Medica (nasdaq: ABMC - news - people ), and medical-device company Cyberonix (nasdaq: CYBX - news - people ).
The device also allows business users to instantly turn a display into a flexible, securely managed, communications-enabled thin client for work, demos or presentations.
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But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware and Microsoft: virtualization.
But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware (nyse: VMW - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ): virtualization.
Thus affordable flash-based mobile devices will have limited storage capacity and are most useful for a use and delete or on-line access thin client use models.
Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.
Thin client devices depending upon on-line applications and on-line storage to do work and require constant connectivity.
And IBM, to take one example, has seen 40% year-to-year growth in sales of its thin client, called the Network Station.
This will be a benefit to tablet and other thin client devices that depend upon access to inexpensive on-line services, including storage.
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday plans to release a set of "thin client" computers that are designed to function as lightweight terminals for accessing computing systems hosted on servers.
By the company's count, a single combined thin client and blade server uses 44 watts of energy compared with an energy-chewing desktop PC's 80 watts.
Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) on Thursday plans to release a set of "thin client" computers that are designed to function as lightweight terminals for accessing computing systems hosted on servers.
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