The Register: Gateway to unveil Linux-based AOL box Friday

Gateway will take the wraps off its Transmeta-based, AOL-oriented Net appliance tomorrow [Friday], company sources have claimed.

The announcement will follow today's alliance between Gateway and chip-maker Broadcom, which will see the duo co-develop systems capable of pumping streamed digital audio and video content to a variety of consumer electronics devices, such as TVs, PCs and (hint, hint) Internet appliances.

Here's the original Gateway AOL Internet Appliances to Be Powered by Transmeta's Crusoe Processor press release. So far no official announcement about the launch of the IA - understandable since the USA is still asleep at the time of this post.