Gadgets from the Far East you'll never see

Cool Tools Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco & Verizon Verizon Business Turns the Tide for Ocean Beauty Seafoods Ocean Beauty Seafoods leveraged Verizon Business strategic solutions to extend secure, centralized Internet access to business units across the country and enable a corporate wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) migration. Click here to learn more today! Keith Shaw's Cool Tools Alert, 05/24/07 * LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEOS: Gadgets from the Far East you'll never see West Coast/Asia Correspondent Joel Snyder shows Keith some gadgets and gizmos he picked up on a recent trip to Asia. Among the booty: A Sushi-shaped USB drive, a diamond-studded phone and a very cool Bluetooth headset unit. * LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMNS: How to Build a Next-Gen Infrastructure Get expert advice, and real-world tips and tricks from network IT professionals on how to build the next-generation application, storage and management infrastructures that will take your organization to new levels of productivity and efficiency. Click here to download this Executive Guide Do we need 3TB of capacity at home? Heck yeah! I know most people might think they'd never need 3TB of storage for their PCs, but some people never thought they'd need a personal computer in the first place. * LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST: Twisted Pair Podcast: Interop 2007: No lonely cowboys here Recording live from Interop 2007, Jason and Keith chat about what they learned at Interop, Google's auction idea for wireless spectrum, the 5-year-exclusive agreement between AT&T and Apple for the iPhone, and why cowboys are so lonely (41:24). Twisted Pair Podcast: Dell customer service takes another hit Jason and Keith talk about about a new lawsuit against dell brought by the state of New York, more reports of lost personal data, 10 things we hate about meetings and look ahead to Interop 2007. * LATEST COOL TOOL BLOGS: Robots are cool Earlier this week I was in Boston checking out the RoboBusiness 2007 show, to see the latest in robotics technology as it's used for business and military applications.

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