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Palo Alto, Calif.-Based Sun Microsystems to Offer New 'Jini' Technology.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 1999 by Helft, Miguel
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 25 -- The Jetsons. Lots of smart widgets but no computers in sight.
It's not a vision the high-tech industry has delivered on. Instead, we have lots of expensive, complex computers and few truly smart widgets.
Today Sun Microsystems Inc. hopes to take a step toward changing that. The Palo Alto computer maker will unveil Jini, an eagerly awaited technology intended to allow everything from a TV to a dishwasher to plug into a network as simply as a telephone plugs into the wall.
This technology would allow all sorts of devices to work together and tap into each other's power. For instance, a parent could use video camera in a playroom to keep an eye on the kids through a computer screen at the...
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