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March 30, 2001
Vote BeOS for freedom of choice, ZD Net
"I am going to buy a BeIA Internet appliance and take my main computer offline. This
will allow kids (and me) to compute, create, and play without the pressure of ad banners,
and potentially gross junk."
March 27, 2001
BeIA At CeBIT, IA ZONE
"While visiting Be Inc.'s CeBIT booth we found a variety of BeIA enabled devices on
display. Surprisingly a number of well-known companies such as Compaq, Philips,
Proview, and FIC were presenting BeIA enabled devices at some of their own booths
as well."
March 26, 2001
Be Operating System to Power Sony Net Appliance, ZDNet
"Electronics giant Sony is licensing software from operating system
maker Be to power its consumer Internet browsing appliance, the e Villa."
March 9, 2001
BeOS: All Operating System -- No Flab, ComputerEdge Online
"BeOS is the brainchild of Jean-Louis Gassée and Steve Sakoman, former Apple
employees who formed Be Inc. in 1991. Their idea was to start from scratch, and
develop a brand-new operating system aimed at a media-rich desktop environment....
Everything was to be brand new if they were to design an operating system
that was as reliable as it was efficient."
March 5, 2001
Scripting With The Be File System, Byte.com
"For the purposes of this article, we'll keep the output as simple as
possible, but you could easily extend these techniques to make a fairly
sophisticated online contact database, or output the same data to
comma-separated data for import into other third-party utilities."
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