Gateway and AOL bypass industry stalwarts on components

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Gateway Inc. and America Online Inc. are joining forces to produce a new Internet home appliance for sale beginning later in the year. Instead of an appliance with an Intel processor and Microsoft software, the companies will use a processor designed by Transmeta Corp. of Santa Clara, CA and the Linux operating system. The appliance is to be one of many in the 'post-PC' computer era in which PC's are displaced by Internet-friendly devices. Microsoft and Intel prefer to believe that the PC will remain at the center of the computing world for years to come.

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Sun taking new step toward computing outside the box

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Sun Microsystems, long a leader in the hardware manufacturing industry, has reaffirmed its committment to a computing future in which the Internet and software are more important than devices. Sun's software will be called Jupiter and is meant to coordinate and automate diverse programs on the Internet. A key component of the Jupiter plan will be the establishment of open-computing standards on the Web.

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Apple's Next Test: Get Developers to Write Programs for Intel Chips

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Now that Steve Jobs has announced that Apple computers will switch from using IBM to Intel chips, he must motivate programmers to make the transition work.

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