November 2015

Touch screens have become a very common part of our daily lives. Smartphones, handheld video games, car navigation systems, ticket vending machines, kiosks, bank ATMs, and more all use touch panels to enable users to interact with a computer or device without the use of a keyboard or mouse. Even though they are all touch screens, there are several uniquely...

A thin client (also called lean or slim client) is a stateless, fanless desktop terminal that does not contain a hard drive. When using a thin client, all the features that are typically found on the desktop PC such as applications, sensitive data, and memory are stored back into the data center or server. Thin clients, software services, and backend...

Solid State Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) are both storage components that differ based on purchase needs, preferences, and budget. HDD is the traditional spinning hard drive and is the basic nonvolatile storage on a computer. Even when the system is turned off, the data on the system memory doesn’t “go away”. Hard drives are essentially metal platters...

Acnodes Corporations, a leading manufacturer of industrial and embedded computer platforms and technologies, announced today the launch of a new military grade fanless box PC. With Intel Bay Trail Quad Core Celeron N2930 1.83GHz, the military grade system is sealed in a fully IP67 housing with MIL-STD-810F and MIL-STD-461E EMC compliant. With the compact dimension of 300 x 130 x...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a big concept and there is one simple way to define the Internet of Things. The concept that the Internet of Things is no longer a network for people to communicate with one another using computer but it is also a platform or device to communicate with the world. It is a platform that...