The Redwood City, Calif.-based company, started in 2003 by the founders of eMachines, plans to launch a formal partner program by the end of the year to develop a wider market for its innovative PC ...

Let's say you are surfing the net on your PC or writing something using MS Word. The only software that your PC is running is the browser and the office application along with some operating system ...

This post is brought to you by Dell. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. The economics behind thin-client computers — machines designed to run primarily off ...

Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, have something in common: Both want to bring affordable computing to the developing world. But ask ...

SAN FRANCISCO--After years of pitching the developing world and educational institutions on the notion of shared PCs, NComputing is ready to make a more serious push to U.S. businesses. The company's ...

Redwood City start-up NComputing, whose technology uses the power of a single PC to power up to seven computing terminals, is set to announce on Monday that it has started the process of equipping ...

Schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are deploying virtual desktop technology that lets several users share the computing capacity of a single PC. Each of 5,000 secondary schools in the state ...

Computing power may be getting cheaper in the West but for developing countries and many educational authorities worldwide they remain prohibitively expensive when buying in large numbers. Many firms ...

NComputing CEO Steve Dukker doesn't just subscribe to the belief that the average PC packs more processing power than the average end-user needs; he's built his company's product line of virtual PCs ...

Once upon a time no one had computers on their desks, but some researchers had terminals in their offices that let them remotely access a big computer somewhere else. Now the idea of terminal ...

Do you remember Digital Research's Concurrent CP/M and Concurrent DOS? In this little walk down memory lane, how about MP/M? Ncomputing is walking down the same historical path. The goal of all of ...