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Internet appliance
About: Internet appliance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43571 citations.
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TL;DR: Software developers and automotive electronics engineers are collaborating on voice recognition and speech synthesis interfaces to provide access to such services as on-demand emergency assistance, navigation, and traffic reports in vehicles.
Abstract: Automakers are working at equipping vehicles with not only Internet access but also such services as on-demand emergency assistance, navigation, and traffic reports. To provide access to these services and the hardware needed to deliver them, software developers and automotive electronics engineers are collaborating on voice recognition and speech synthesis interfaces. Everyone agrees, it seems, that by using speech to control equipment, distractions will be minimal and drivers can keep their hands and eyes devoted to the wheel and the road. For rear seat passengers, where distraction is a plus if it prevents the plaintive "Are we there yet?," automobile manufacturers aim to supply Internet access, and entertainment delivered by DVD, CD-ROM, or the Internet, depending on quality desired for whatever content is delivered. Most major vehicle manufacturers worldwide agree that the vehicle will be connected to the Internet. Popular demand is the key. One ultimate application is all it will really take for consumers to insist on Internet connectivity in their cars.
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided initial estimates of the household penetration rates of Internet ready cell phones and Internet enabled PDAs, based on over 4,000 completed surveys obtained for the period, January 2003 through February 2003.
Abstract: This paper provides initial estimates of the household penetration rates of Internet ready cell phones and Internet enabled PDAs. The data used for this analysis is based on over 4,000 completed surveys obtained for the period, January 2003 through February 2003. The paper provides a framework for assessing the initial demand for Internet ready mobile devices (cell phones, PDAs) including the probability that those devices are connected to the Internet. Issues addressed are: (1) the impact of wireless mobile devices on second lines, (2) the relationship of wireless Internet access on a household’s choice of Internet access (broadband vs. dial-up) and (3) the level of interest in advanced services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The demand for Internet ready devices is segmented by income and age and by cell phone service provider.
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: This guide, written by a librarian for librarians, offers all the information the librarian needs to know about using the Internet in user-friendly fashion.
Abstract: This guide, written by a librarian for librarians, is up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible. In user-friendly fashion, the book offers all the information the librarian needs to know about using the Internet. This includes: an overall definition of the Internet, including hardware and software requirements for getting on board; the "big three" Internet applications - FTP, TELNET and email - which enable users to communicate with others and share and find information; popular resource discovery tools and special font applications that access multiple services while using a single interface; the librarian's role in a global network environment and the effect the Internet has on the kinds of services libraries can offer; and a selective list of Internet resources and services including file types and the software that creates them, library discussion lists and documents in the EFF Library Policy Archive.
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06 Jan 1998TL;DR: This work discusses using a modified version of simulated annealing algorithm to develop an intelligent personal spider (agent), which is based on automatic textual analysis of the Internet documents and hybrid simulatedAnnealing.
Abstract: The World Wide Web (WWW) based Internet services have become a major channel for information delivery. For the same reason, information overload also has become a serious problem to the users of such services. It has been estimated that the amount of information stored on the Internet doubled every 18 months. The speed of increase of home pages can be even faster, some people estimated that it doubled every six months. Therefore, a scalable approach to support Internet searching is critical to the success of Internet services and other current or future National Information Infrastructure (NII) applications. We discuss using a modified version of simulated annealing algorithm to develop an intelligent personal spider (agent), which is based on automatic textual analysis of the Internet documents and hybrid simulated annealing.
12 citations