Through this time Raskin continually wrote memos about how the personal computer could become a true consumer appliance.

Apple will do fine - it's making more than enough from consumer appliances like the iPhone.

It also traces the evolution of the personal computer from the software hacker, to its use as a consumer appliance on the Internet.

Steel production is doing especially well, the report said, because of increased sales of motor vehicles and consumer appliances.

This basic circuit is used in a wide range of applications, including many consumer appliances such as mobile phone chargers.

Many consumer appliances have labels indicating whether or not they are energy efficient compared to similar products.

But a huge number of businesses - baked goods, consumer appliances and cosmetics, to name just a few - are gone.

Why has such a basic and obvious consumer appliance never been offered to the public?

Similarly, many makers of consumer appliances, like Maytag, have not been willing to let their dealers sell on line.

Murray had rejected an earlier bid of $48 a share from Europe's largest consumer appliance maker.