Robots: More than meets the eye

Cool Tools Alert This newsletter is sponsored by D-Link D-Link Unified Switching Improves Network Efficiency As businesses scale, blending traditional wireless and wired networks become a challenge. D-Link's xStack 3200 series incorporate effortless wireless switching and advanced wired functionality for a TOTAL unified network solution. Discover how D-Link can help take your network to the next level. Download your copy of "Unified Wireless Switching" to learn more. Keith Shaw's Cool Tools Alert, 05/31/07 * LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEOS: Robots: More than meets the eye Keith visits the RoboBusiness 2007 in Boston to check out the latest and greatest in robotic technology. Is Rosie the Maid a reality yet? * LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMNS: How to Build a Next-Gen Infrastructure Get expert advice, and real-world tips and tricks from network IT professionals on how to build the next-generation application, storage and management infrastructures that will take your organization to new levels of productivity and efficiency. Click here to download this Executive Guide Turn your iPod into a digital recorder MicroMemo for iPod with video, by XtremeMac, about $60. This is an add-on attachment with a microphone for iPod video (30GB or 60GB versions) that turns the audio player into a digital audio recorder. * FROM THE NETWORK WORLD VIDEO LIBRARY: Interop 2007 video notebook Network World's Keith Shaw tours the Interop 2007 floor looking for the best 70's game and talking with the booth "help." * LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST: Twisted Pair Podcast: Interop 2007: No lonely cowboys here Recording live from Interop 2007, Jason and Keith chat about what they learned at Interop, Google's auction idea for wireless spectrum, the 5-year-exclusive agreement between AT&T and Apple for the iPhone, and why cowboys are so lonely (41:24).

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. Novell publishes terms of Microsoft Linux deal 2. Verizon planning iPhone killer 3. Michigan man fined for using free Wi-Fi 4. Switches of the future 5. Are security pros worrying about the right stuff? 6. Cisco routers cause major outage in Japan 7. Microsoft routs BMC's .Net Identity Management 8. Report slams FBI network security 9. Skype worm jumps to ICQ, MSN too 10. Don't sniff at used network gear MOST E-MAILED STORY: Michigan man fined for using free Wi-Fi

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