Sam Ockman, founder and CEO of Penguin Computing, from Enterprise Linux Today . Maybe not, but a number of companies are increasingly looking to voice recognition as the next new thing in adding value to the plethora of hand-held devices, cellular phones and highly portable computing machines. Today, IBM announces that it too is jumping on the voice-recognition bandwagon. So pronounced, in fact, is this rush to IA that even Intel has taken a pause from lording over the processor market to develop an Internet appliance of its own called Dot. Station to its customers as part of a service package.
Station is the result of extensive consumer research and close cooperation with our customers.
We believe we have designed a product that not only meets the needs of service providers, but also appeals to consumers who don't own a PC and want access to the Internet. The Rookery is not above a groan here. As a number of observers have noted, a PC is already a perfectly capable Internet device. Pointing to the Java, QuickTime, RealPlayer, MP3-rich Internet in an interview with Fortune , Jobs noted by the time you build a machine that can handle all of those things, you have something that is only a few dollars cheaper than a PC or an iMac. In the Dot.