Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
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Apple TV: A big iPod for your television
Keith is surprised at Apple TV’s ability to aggregate multimedia content from a variety of sources, but disappointed in a few missing features. Find out the pros and cons of Apple’s newest gadget for the home on this week’s Cool Tools video show.
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Bluetooth headsets: quality or features
When it comes to Bluetooth mobile phone headsets, do you choose voice call quality over features and functions? This week I have two products that take different approaches.
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Twisted Pair Podcast: Rumor Week 2007
Keith and Jason discuss the week of tech rumors, including the Microsoft/Yahoo talks and whether 150,000 IBM employees are going to be laid off this year. Plus, why Big Brother is watching you at work, and some cool ways to call your Mom on Mother’s Day. (42:23)
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Buffalo launches 3TB storage boxes
Buffalo Technology today said 3TB versions of its TeraStation Live and TeraStation Pro II network-attached storage boxes are now available. The NAS boxes, which offer high-speed processors with data transfer rates of up to 38 MB/sec., have an estimated street price of $2,499.
Weird Al is your new IT guy
It’s hard to make this up. Really. Left Brain Games announced a new interactive game for PCs that features “Weird Al” Yankovic as the star of Virus Alert 3D, in which IT employee Weird Al takes on viruses at Companytechco Inc., LLC.
Can the Helio Ocean make a dent in the enterprise?
Helio announced that its Ocean device is now available. The $295 Ocean is a dual-slider cell phone that includes a numeric keypad and separate QWERTY keyboard. Additional features include instant messaging (including presence-enabled contact lists), text messaging, photo messaging and e-mails, an HTML browser, over-the-air music downloads, video on demand, and GPS-enabled Google Maps.
New Intel processors = boatloads of new PCs
Whenever Intel launches a new set of processors, we see a bevy of product announcement from notebook and PC manufacturers. Today is no different, as Intel announced faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, as well as its latest Centrino processor technology for notebooks.
