1.   Also, Sun Microsystems agreed to acquire Diba Inc., a start-up company that is developing technology for small communications and computing devices called information appliances.

2.   Apple may eventually find itself stunted by the move towards simple Internet computing devices and information appliances, such as smart mobile phones and television set-top boxes.

3.   A. I believe that information appliances are going to happen slowly, as indeed they already are.

4.   For an information appliance intended to be used in family settings, allowing only one member of the family to have a private e-mail account is dumb.

5.   For now, if you really want an information appliance, stick with the phone, the fax and a refrigerator bedecked with messages.

6.   For people interested in single applications such as e-mail or financial planning, the information appliance may be the answer.

7.   Get ready for a new computer category, joining NetPC, Network Computer, information appliance, et al.

8.   He looks to new forms of information appliances.

9.   In fact, the most useful information appliances are those that work in tandem with the PC.

10.   Information appliances, on the one hand, are thriving.