Keeping your beverages cool

Cool Tools Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection for SMBs: Beyond Tape Backup As more employees work from remote locations, the risks and potential costs of data loss are too great. The stakes are even higher for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), as they lack the resources a larger company can use to survive a data loss. In this paper, you'll learn how more and more SMBs are using on-demand data protection services as an affordable, workable solution to their growing backup, recovery and business continuity challenges. Keith Shaw's Cool Tools Alert, 05/10/07 * LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEOS: Keeping your beverages cool Keith tests out a new way to keep your drinks cool: A USB-powered chiller. Can the device keep a Diet Coke cold for two hours? Keith finds out. * LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMNS: Email: A Security Update Join John Dix, Network World editor-in-chief, and Trent Henry, senior analyst at The Burton Group, as they discuss the challenges and solutions network IT pros are encountering when working to ensure inbox integrity and protect data. Click here for more information. Apple TV is a winner Apple's version of a streaming media device, although Apple TV sounds simpler and sexier. * LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST: Twisted Pair Podcast: Striking a Microsoft nerve Jason and Keith share listener reaction to Keith's "I am never buying another Microsoft operating system" rant hits a chord with listeners, why spam won't go away, whether IT managers should be fired if their company has a major security breach, and guess how much money Spider-Man 3 will make this weekend. (39:09) * LATEST COOL TOOL BLOGS: Palm launches Treo 755p for Sprint The latest Treo smart phone from Palm is the 755p for Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network, and is the first Treo device that offers built-in Microsoft Direct Push Technology e-mail support. The $279.99 device (plus monthly service charges) will be available in mid-May from Palm stores, the Palm Web site, Sprint stores and the Sprint Web site. Cool Internet Speed Test Internet speed test sites have been around for a while, but they're not very visual. That's why I'm addicted to this site, which entertains you with speedometers and other cool graphics while you test your Internet connection.

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Contact the author: 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 and is the Programming Director at Network World, responsible for the multimedia strategy for the Web site. This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection for SMBs: Beyond Tape Backup As more employees work from remote locations, the risks and potential costs of data loss are too great. The stakes are even higher for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), as they lack the resources a larger company can use to survive a data loss. In this paper, you'll learn how more and more SMBs are using on-demand data protection services as an affordable, workable solution to their growing backup, recovery and business continuity challenges. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007