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  • "ZDNet.com" - 05/14/08
    Linux’s biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards     In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM’s Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by the end of the year...
  • "TechGage.com" - 05/14/08
    ASUS Shows Faith in Splashtop     Splashtop, for the uninitiated, is an embedded Linux environment that we first saw with ASUS' P5E3 Deluxe late last year. Since then, Splashtop has been rolled out into other ASUS motherboards, such as the P5E3 Premium, M3N-HT Deluxe and a few others... In a unique agreement, Splashtop will be featured on all upcoming ASUS motherboards, including the P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe and also the P5Q-E...
  • "Webware.com" - 05/14/08
    Asus making more motherboards with embedded Linux
    ...The only problem with the P5E3 was its eye-popping price: $350. It also requires ultraexpensive DDR3 RAM. But apparently, the Splashtop experiment has been a success, and Asus is releasing new, more down-to-earth motherboards with the featur...
  • "Geek.com" - 05/14/08
    Splashtop Linux desktop to appear on every Asus motherboard     DeviceVM, the makers of Splashtop, just made a big announcement though. Their technology will no longer be restricted to the top-shelf motherboards and will see a much wider release. At first it will be featured on Asus’ P5Q (high-efficiency design, Intel P45 chipset) family of motherboards, starting with the P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe, and P5Q-E. Later Splashtop will be featured on all the company’s motherboards, over a million units a month.
  • "Phoronix.net" - 05/14/08
    ASUS Massively Expands SplashTop Boards     ASUS has announced today that they have expanded their selection of SplashTop-enabled motherboards by four with the introduction of the ASUS P5Q motherboard family. In addition, it has been announced by ASUS that they plan to roll-out SplashTop on their "entire motherboard product portfolio, starting with over one million motherboards per month." Congratulations to the DeviceVM folks and the Linux community with this being a major win.
  • "Geek.com" - 04/22/08
    Splashtop Linux desktop helps fight global warming     The Splashtop Linux desktop, supposing you have the right motherboard, allows users to get onto the internet in seconds from a computer that was turned off. It does not require a full boot up into the main OS to access it so it means your computer can be kept off much of the time (though not unplugged) and quickly accessed as necessary. Using the application it should be easy to keep your computer off much of the time without having to wait a few minutes just to check your email or visit a website.
  • "PopGadget.com" - 04/18/08
    Give your computer a rest for Earth Day     Did you know that the electricity required to keep a PC running overnight generates up to 51 lbs of CO2 every month, and the combined energy wasted by consumer electronics in standby mode is as high as 10% of all residential power consumption in developed countries?
  • "TechRepublic.com" - 03/31/08
    Splashtop "Instant On" motherboard     So I have had on my desk for about week now a sweet little ASUS laptop containing one of the new Splashtop motherboards. Don’t know what Splashtop is? Well Splashtop is a motherboard that contains, in the onboard memory, a special version of Linux (based on Small Linux - formerly tinyX) that runs right after the bios...
  • "itmedia.co.jp" - 03/13/08
    瞬時に起動するLinux環境Splashtop     わずか9秒で起動するSplashtop。瞬時に起動するシステムはあなたの予想以上にこれまでの環境を変え得る力を秘めている。
  • "itmagz.com" - 03/06/08
    What's new with Operating Systems?     In the light of fast-paced changes on the browser front, are users finding that innovation at the desktop has stagnated? Has it? Or is there a lot brewing ‘under the hood’ that we’re just not aware of, yet take for granted as our user experience improves incrementally?
  • "Linux.com" - 03/06/08
    A hands-on look at the Splashtop instant-on Linux environment     San Jose-based startup DeviceVM made waves last year when it unveiled Splashtop, a nearly instant-on Linux environment stored in the flash memory usually reserved for motherboard BIOS. The company previewed an upcoming revision to Splashtop at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in January, then gave us the chance to take a hands-on look at this intriguing system software.
  • "ServerWatch.com" - 01/28/08
    Tip of the Trade: SplashTop     A typical Windows PC or server takes anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds to boot up. But that's just the beginning of the startup process: All the nagware, automatic updates, malware scans, hardware scans, indexing, connecting to network shares, and whatever applications want to start up after boot have to run through their paces. This can consume as much as another 30 minutes if you're unlucky, although around five to six minutes is more typical. If you're in a hurry, there's not much you can do except find something else to do— unless you have a DeviceVM's SplashTop-enabled computer.
  • "YouTube.com" - 01/27/08
    Splashtop on USTV (Taiwan)     谁说开机非得等？数到9让你上网 (The phrase on the left in English: Who said you have to wait forever? Count to 9 and you are online already...)
  • "TTV.com.tw" - 01/25/08
    傳統快六倍 電腦開機僅九秒     傳統快六倍 電腦開機僅九秒　九秒開機 吸引華碩仁寶廣達　電腦開機僅九秒 台灣人研發...
  • "VentureBeat.com" - 01/22/08
    Ex-Googlers back DeviceVM, a company that loads your computer faster ...
  • "TechnologyReview.com" - 01/16/08
    Instant Boot-Up ...     A Silicon Valley startup bypasses Windows to start computers faster, getting people online in seconds...
  • "Taiwan.CNET.com" - 01/16/08
    CES 2008: SplashTop，從0到Internet只要十秒鐘喔     之前我們在華碩的主機板研討會上就有聽過這件事，他們打算自家一些頂級的主機板內，多放一個小記憶體（512MB左右），然後放一套linux-base 的軟體，提供使用者免進入Windows即可上網、看DVD、聽音樂、看照片等功能。在華碩研討會上，他們將這個功能名為Express Gate，而實際這家公司叫DeviceVM，這套軟體名為SplashTop。
  • "TechGage.com" - 01/08/08
    CES 2008: DeviceVM's Splashtop ...     We caught up with DeviceVM at CES to see what's new with their Splashtop embedded Linux environment, which we first saw on the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe motherboard. As we found out, development has been steady with many new features implemented and ready for deployment with notebooks...
  • "GottaBeMobile.com" - 01/08/08
    CES 2008: Instant On With Splashtop ...     Instant-on with full internet is a mobile person's dream. Looks like we are getting closer to that with DeviceVM's Splashtop. Their software is installed to the computer's motherboard, and provides instant-on full access to the internet.
  • "Phoronix.net" - 01/03/08
    ASUS Expands Splashtop Mobo Selection ...     DeviceVM and ASUS are today announcing that they have expanded their selection of motherboards that ship with SplashTop (a.k.a. "Express Gate") technology. We've been enthralled by SplashTop, an embedded instant-on Linux desktop environment, since we had first looked at this technology on the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe motherboard. DeviceVM's SplashTop is so interesting that it had even earned the title of being one of the greatest Linux innovations of 2007.
  • "PCWorld" - 12/27/07
    The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year     Innovation: Allows a PC to boot in a few seconds into a simple, secure interface with a Mozilla-based browser. Benefit: Lets you save energy by keeping your PC powered off when you're not using it. DeviceVM's Linux-based technology allows you to boot into its Internet-appliance-like platform in a few seconds...
  • "HardwareZone" - 12/17/07
    Top 100 Products of 2007     DeviceVM changed the game in 2007 with Splashtop, an amazing desktop environment based on a secure, ultra-lightweight Linux variant that will have your PC up in a few seconds flat with full access to the Internet and web-based applications such as e-mail, VoIP and even word processing...
  • "Phoronix.net" - 12/11/07
    The Greatest Linux Innovations Of 2007 ...     When it comes to pure innovation this year within the Linux ecosystem, one company that came immediately to mind was DeviceVM and their SplashTop product. SplashTop is essentially an instant-on Linux desktop environment that within a few seconds of turning on your PC, you can be surfing the Internet via a Firefox-based web browser or even using Skype's VoIP client.
  • "Gizmodo.com" - 10/11/07
    Asustek P5E3 Motherboard Features Embedded "Splashtop" Linux Variant...
    ...If you are not familiar with it, Splashtop is a Linux variant that provides basic functionality like wired and wireless connectivity, Firefox, Skype and simple games. What's unique about the software is that it runs entirely in RAM. That means you don't have to wait for your computer to boot in order to surf or chat on the internet. With the release of the P5E3, Asustek has become the first manufacturer to implement Splashtop in a motherboard....
  • "Mashable.com" - 10/11/07
    Splashtop Funded and Launched: Surf the Web Before Booting Up Your PC...
  • "InformationWeek.com" - 10/11/07
    Splashtop: Embedded Linux For Your Motherboard...
  • "Softpedia.com" - 10/11/07
    The Death of Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X, Linux etc. - Starts with an Instant Desktop environment.
  • "CNet.com" - 10/10/07
    Asus P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP
    ...This alternate operating system, provided by DeviceVM to Asus, is fast and convenient. There's no giant OS to boot before you get into your browser, which is a slimmed-down version of Firefox, not some weird, quasibrowser that doesn't do what you want. There's a Flash plug-in installed so most modern sites render properly. Flash videos play just fine. The system saves all your settings (including bookmarks) in memory, so you don't have to start from scratch every time you fire it up....
  • "Webware.com" - 10/10/07
    Hardware for Webware: A motherboard with embedded Firefox
    ...Because the DeviceVM platform doesn't have access to the hard disks connected to the motherboard, the system is very secure. So if, say, guests wants to use your PC to check their Web mail, you can boot them into the ExpressGate environment (that's what Asus calls it) and not worry about them junking up your PC. You might want to clear your private data from the Firefox cache first, though...
  • "TheRegister.com" - 10/09/07
    Please ignore the start-up stealing the OS from Microsoft...
    Sometimes the world changes – again – and hardly anyone notices. As a case in point, we bring you DeviceVM ...
  • "Phoronix.net" - 10/09/07
    SplashTop To Splash Onto Notebooks, Desktops...     With the information we've been exposed to and our testing of SplashTop thus far, we believe that this is the start of a revolution. This is not a revolution for just saving a bit of time when your computer starts up, but for the overhaul of the BIOS architecture and the conventional boot process, increased power savings, and if capitalized right is yet another large opportunity for Linux. We believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg for DeviceVM and look forward to monitoring its progress especially over the next three to nine months.
  • "BoingBoing.net" - 10/08/07
    SplashTop Instant-On Web Browsing and Skype...
  • "Wired.com" - 10/08/07
    DeviceVM Launches "Instant Desktop" On ASUS Motherboards...
  • "engadget.com" - 10/08/07
    ASUS P5E3 Deluxe mobo boots in five seconds...
  • "SlashDot.org" - 10/07/07
    DeviceVM just got slashdotted ...
  • "Phroronix.com" - 10/06/07
    ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser...
  • "SlashGear" - 9/26/07
    ASUS add WiFi-N, quick-boot Linux to P5E3 motherboard...
  • "HardwareZone" - 9/26/07
    The Most Energy Efficient Motherboard in the World...
  • "AnandTech" - 9/19/07
    ASUS P5E3 Deluxe X38 and DDR3 arrives...
  • "HotHardware.com" - 9/19/07
    Asus First Out Of The Gate With X38 Motherboard...
  • "Tom's Hardware" - 9/18/07
    ASUS P5E3-DELUXE...
  • "MSN" - 9/18/07
    有效節能與省電 - P5E3 Deluxe...
  • "engadget.com" - 9/17/07
    華碩發表 X38 主機板 P5E...
  • "KBench.co.kr" - 9/06/07
    ASUS P5E3 Deluxe의 BIOS 메뉴...
  • "TagStory.com" - 9/06/07
    ASUS P5E3-DELUXE - Express Gate...
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