Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
* LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEO:
I–Mate’s Momento digital picture frames can grab photos from USB drives, SD cards and through the Internet via a wireless network connection. Keith gives the digital picture frame a run through.
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Fujitsu’s U810 aims to be ultimate mobile device
LifeBook U810, by Fujitsu, starts at $1,000. Instead of calling its LifeBook U810 an ultraportable or ultramobile portable PC, Fujitsu calls it a mini-notebook, which might be more of a marketing term than a specific product category.
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Rumor Mill: Who’s Buying Who?
Jason and Keith discuss the latest gossip on tech company acquisitions, whether the iPhone is toxic, and how you should deal with offensive co-workers.
* LATEST FROM NETWORK WORLD PANORAMA:
Protecting your intellectual property
Everyday, it seems, there’s a new charge of one company stealing another’s intellectual property or violating a patent. Most recently, Microsoft charged Red Hat with violating some of its intellectual property claims. Network World’s Jason Meserve talks about the issue and what can be done to protect software assets with Mike Dager, CEO of Arxan, a maker of intellectual property protection tools. (10:16)
SOA’s ready-made architectural model
The OASIS standards body has recently begun working on the service component architect (SCA) specification already widely supported throughout the Java vendor community. This is great news for enterprises building service-oriented architectures as a model such as this will considerably ease the pain of gathering Web services into a cohesive whole. Duane Nickull, a senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems and recognized SOA authority the world over, explains how SCA works and why it’s so important to enterprise SOA in this talk with New Data Center Editor Beth Schultz. (33:08)
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Identity management helps take load off Sabre’s legacy systems
For Sabre Holdings, identity management and security provisioning tools from Sun and Netegrity, have eased the burden on its mainframe processing systems and allowed the company to move to more open systems for supporting the 1 million peak transactions per hour it must process. Kurtis Holland, Principal, IT Security at Sabre Holdings, explains what steps went to into picking which tools to use and what you can do to avoid mistakes when implementing identity management in your own enterprise environment. (9:19)
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iPhone, gPhone, now an ‘sPhone’?
In the latest ‘me too!’ news of the mobile phone world, reports are surfacing that Skype plans to launch its own cell phone with service available in Europe, Asia and Australia.
* LATEST FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET
Essential Windows Mobile Applications
Microsoft Subnet blogger Chris Dalby discusses a slew of new mobile applications that run on his HTC Touch Mobile 6 device including Live Search, Skype for Mobile, Gizmo Project SIP client.
