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Contrary to popular notion, truck drivers know nothing about good restaurants. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.

Continued strength of the consumer electronics and home office categories and the recent substantial weakness in major appliances accelerated our decision to reformat all existing superstores. The major appliance business carries high fixed costs and tends to be more cyclical than other retail categories." ()

Adonis v4.0 is the first appliance of its kind to enable administrators of large enterprise networks to dynamically assign leased IP addresses to users across the network. Administrators can now perpetually scrutinize their network resource allocations with confidence, without having to contend with known vulnerabilities and scalability limits inherent to other similar systems.

Comdex is a large animal that doesn't have a focus anymore as the industry moves into a wireless and appliance area.

The Nokia IP560 with Check Point VPN-1 Pro is one more example of real business value delivered by Nokia and Check Point to companies around the world. Nokia and Check Point have worked together for the last eight years to simplify deployment and management of security appliances across the enterprise, and today that trend continues as the Nokia IP560 offers unparalleled benefits in terms of price, performance, and total cost of ownership.

Appliances will proliferate, ... Things that you don't even think about today being appliances will become appliances.

Appliances will be based on browsers, and it's the service you care about,

The business market wants low-maintenance devices. Appliances can get close to this profile,

Shares of Network Appliance are off to a good start in 2006, up nearly 25 percent since December 30.

We have decided to take the unusual step and reduce our rating on WHR to Sell to reflect what we strongly believe is the potential for significant near-term downside risk due to a series of massive changes rapidly altering the historic ways the appliance business is conducted in North America, ... The net result of this change will, in our opinion, be a slow, but steadily building decline in market share for WHR, accompanied by steadily increasing pricing pressures, which we believe could far disproportionately impact Whirlpool versus other manufacturers.