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Re:The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project by st3fan on Monday July 21, 2008 @05:36PM (#252709)
"""... when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware..."""

WTF is a 'cloud computing client'. Personally I'm sick and tired of hearing the word 'cloud' being used in every hyped project now.

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Re:The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project by tx on Monday July 21, 2008 @08:48PM (#252854)
There's a marketing play here, you see how the slash separates two types of future customers?

"Cloud computing" - for those who believe in it and "web browsing" for the rest of us.

:-)

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Re:The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project by greyman on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @06:24AM (#253141)
'cloud computing client' == client for web applications, which use cloud computing. But I think we are still talking about having Firefox in a cheap tablet.
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Re:The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project by boredguy8 on Monday July 21, 2008 @07:57PM (#252817)
Read: Thin client.
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Re:The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project by trezor on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @05:27AM (#253116)
People got fed up with Web 2.0, plus it pairs poorly with "Web browsing device", so they made a new word.

Anyone else notice that they said it would support open media codecs. Does this mean the device (much like Ubuntu without added repositories) wont support common formats like mp3?

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