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Microsoft is collaborating with Fugoo to bring Windows to a new generation of “neo-diginet” devices. LAS VEGAS — Jan. 9, 2009 — Few attendees at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week will be surprised to learn that the myriad gadgets of everyday life are getting smarter and more useful. But what may come as a surprise is that household appliances and devices are about ..

By Stephen Withers Monday, 12 January 2009 08:40 Your IT - Entertainment Back in the early 1980s, one of the promises of the "microprocessor revolution" was that relatively inexpensive electronic controllers would be upgradable in a way that their mechanical forebears never could be. For example, a washing machine could be reprogrammed with an additional wash cycle for a new type of fabric. A de..

A new platform unveiled at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas, built as a marriage between hardware and software, might just be the answer to transforming traditional household objects, appliances, and accessories into neo-diginets. Neo-diginets are nothing more than a new generation of Internet-linked devices with the Fugoo hardware platform and the Windows..