RIM throws a sharp Curve

Cool Tools Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Special Report: Managing VoIP with a Lean Staff Discover how IT executives are managing the riding tide of VoIP and collaborative applications rollouts and operation despite lean network staffs with Network World's latest Special Report "VoIP and Beyond". Click here to download this Special Report. Keith Shaw's Cool Tools Alert, 07/12/07 * LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEOS: RIM throws a sharp Curve The sleak new BlackBerry Curve is the smallest BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard and 2.0 megapixel digital camera. * LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMN: Manage Insider Security Threats Experts say 75% of security threats come from inside your organization. Watch the latest Network World Editorial Perspectives Webcast today, "Security From the Inside," and learn which technologies and processes best protect your intellectual property and assets inside the perimeter. Click Here to View Speaker system lets you stream wirelessly from iPod The people have spoken! After an onslaught of encouraging e-mails (I never realized my column could cure dog polio, but one reader said it did that AND saved his marriage), Cool Tools has returned to the print publication. You can all put your pitchforks and torches away and enjoy more Cool Tools goodness. * LATEST FROM NETWORK WORLD PANORAMA: Extending the deskphone to the mobile worker Dave HatteyWith today's worker on the go, they want to be easily reached and have access to corporate directories where ever they may be and through multiple networks. One company that looks to help enterprises extend PBX functionality to mobile devices is FirstHand Technnologies, one of Network World's Voice over IP Companies to Watch for 2007. Jason Meserve talks with FirstHand CEO Dave Hattey about his company's technology and the future of unified mobile communications. (17:29) Podcast: 6 ways to secure mobile devices Reports say that 40% of enterprises have no policies in place regarding mobile security. Keith Shaw talks with John Jefferies, VP of marketing at RedCannon Security, about RedCannon's Six Laws of Mobile Security, a new framework for how enterprises can use mobile security best practices to protect private data yet still enable the use of mobile devices. (13:25) * LATEST FROM THE VIDEO LIBRARY: New Casio cameras optimized for YouTube Shooting and uploading video to YouTube is a snap with two new digital cameras from Casio. The IDG News Service's Martyn Williams reports.

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