Alienware adds MIMO to new notebooks

Opinion
Jul 6, 20062 mins

Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert

Due to the Fourth of July holiday, no Cool Tools column or video were published this week, but Keith did continue updating his blog.

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Alienware adds MIMO to new notebooks

At least one notebook vendor isn’t worried about whether the 802.11n standard ends up changing or not – Alienware has announced Airgo Networks True MIMO wireless technology on its Aurora m9700 (17-inch, starts at $1,999) and mALX (19-inch, starts at $4,499) mobile systems.

Buffalo expands NAS device line

Buffalo Technology today said it is expanding its LinkStation network-attached storage line of devices with the SMB-targeted LinkStation Pro. The new models will be available in capacities ranging from 250GB up to 750GB.

Vonage launches USB “phone”

Ignore all of that bad news about Vonage for a few minutes. The company today launched its Vonage V-Phone, a portable USB device that lets users make phone calls to anywhere in the world from any PC with high-speed Internet access.

Keith Shaw is an award-winning editor at Network World. In addition to creating the Cool Tools universe of columns, blogs and videocasts, he also edits the weekly DEMOletter newsletter http://www.demo.com/demoletter and is the senior editor of product testing at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/. You can reach Keith at mailto:kshaw@nww.com