Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
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Top 5 indoor summer vacation ideas
Stuck inside on vacation? Or do you choose to be? Keith counts down five cool and fun things to do during your indoor summer vacation.
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UpStage tries to upstage iPhone
With last week’s announcement by Apple that the heavily hyped iPhone will be available June 29, time is running out for phone companies to come up with their own iPhone killer or iPhone alternative. Looking at the dual-sided Upstage mobile phone, one has to wonder why nobody thought of merging a mobile phone and a digital music player before.
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Twisted Pair Podcast: Spam spikes, Mac hacks and stealth attacks
Jason and Keith discuss the latest onslaught of security threats hitting the planet, Avaya’s $8.2B private-equity buyout, and why MLB still doesn’t get the Slingbox.
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Summer Vacation TimeNetwork World Summer Vacation Guide, which will present a list of stories, podcasts, videos and guides to get you ready.
If the nice weather has got you thinking about summer vacations, make sure to check out the
CA puts software on USB credit-card
CA has an interesting new method to deliver its software – put it on a fancy USB device.
Why stand-alone GPS devices are doomed
I’m not yet saying the nail is in the coffin for companies like TomTom, Garmin and Magellan, but they better start figuring out ways to lower the costs of stand-alone GPS devices. The navigation application on a cell phone or smart phone will blow them out of the water.
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