What's on your iPad, Tablet or Set Top Box?
Widgets are hot right now. From Internet-connected TVs to set top boxes to information appliances, everyone wants widgets. And a lot of companies are offering new ways to feed web-based content to widgets, from Windows Vista SideShow to Yahoo Widgets to proprietary versions.
Add a new heavy-hitter to the roster of widgets contenders: Adobe.
Adobe, titan [...]
Microsoft Windows Vista includes a widget feature called Sideshow — small programs that perform discrete tasks. Microsoft and its partners envisioned the Sideshow widgets not just running on desktops, but also on dedicated information appliances that would connect to the desktop and drive the Sideshow content to them.
It seems, though, that these information appliances simply [...]
No doubt sensing a growing market, Microsoft recently announced the availability of Windows Embedded NavReady 2009, a new version of the Windows operating systems for embedded devices designed specifically for use in Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), such as GPSes.
The new NavReady 2009 OS is designed to facilitate easy wireless connections between cell phones, computers, PNDs, [...]
Crestron, a company that sells home automation and networked home equipment, has announced that its touchpanels and 2-way systems that support dynamic text are now compatible with Windows Sideshow, a new feature of Windows Vista that provides widget functionality.
These widgets, similar to those offered by programs like Apple’s Dashboard and Google Desktop (which is compatible [...]
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