I've been following the evolution of client-side computing off and on for over 20 years. Remember ASCII terminals? Green screens? Beehives? X terminals? If you do, they're most likely dimming memories ...

For Charles Hagstrand, software upgrades were nothing less than excruciating. As CIO at CapitalCare Medical Group, , a physician-owned, primary-care medical practice in upstate New York, he would ...

At PC Forum Novatium Solutions demoed its $100 PC appliance (without keyboard or display, which adds about $75) for emerging markets. The Nova netPC and Nova netTV are based on thin client ...

Much of the move to new human-machine interface (HMI) technology has been accompanied by a shift to thin-client systems. Instead, the processing is done in a server, often with redundant backup, that ...

Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

Thin clients are the kind of hardware that should be a home labber’s open secret, but somehow still feels like insider baseball. They are cheap, quiet, and usually built to last years in the office ...

As industry talk swirls around Linux desktops vs. Windows desktops, Neoware Systems, a leading provider of thin clients, this week unveiled a $199 appliance that runs both. As industry talk swirls ...

Can the term "cloud PC" go where the dreaded thin client couldn't? Wyse on Tuesday unveiled a new family of cloud PCs, devices that are diskless, but allow you to get your Windows OS, applications and ...

Ed Iacobucci, co-founder of Citrix Systems and pioneer of thin client computing, passed away today. This 1998 interview, republished online for the first time, reminds us of the clarity of his vision ...

When you look at the power of today’s smartphones and cloud services, there are clear reasons to think thin clients may rise Earlier this week, I was at Dell’s analyst update on its thin client ...