Diagnose car problems on your own

Cool Tools Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Confio Software Performance Management has a New Best Practice Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement. It allows you to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact, aligning your efforts with customer service levels. Using Wait-Time analysis allows IT to always find the root cause of the most important problem impacting customers, and always identify which critical resource will resolve it. Read this whitepaper and learn this new approach to performance management. Keith Shaw's Cool Tools Alert, 09/13/07 * LATEST COOL TOOLS VIDEO: Diagnose car problems on your own The check engine light is on and it could be anything from a loose gas cap to a fouled up cylinder. Keith shows you how to find out the severity of the problem before bringing the car to the shop. * LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMN: Network World Buyer's Guides Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. With seven categories - security, storage, convergence and VoIP, network infrastructure, network applications, wireless and LAN/WAN management - you can quickly pinpoint the hardware or software you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best purchase decisions for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guides now. Why IT shouldn't ignore the iPhone There's been a lot written about the iPhone and the reasons why enterprises should not fully adopt this first-generation device for use by employees. Whether it's the wireless network, lack of strong VPN support, or lack of direct Exchange connections for e-mail, there's enough evidence (in Network World and on the Web) for you to cite when an executive comes to your office asking for IT iPhone support. * LATEST TWISTED PAIR PODCAST: Apple's gadgets give us the warm and fuzzies Jason and Keith discuss the raft of new Apple iPods, question why Microsoft wants to take on Adobe's Flash technology, and celebrate the return of Pigskin Pick 'Em! * LATEST FROM NETWORK WORLD PANORAMA: Why Are We Mismanaging Passwords? Research suggests the typical enterprise spends more than $500,000 each year on maintaining and updating privileged passwords, those non-personal, shared and administrative passwords that exist in almost every device or application. Yet they're still not secure. Adam Bosnian, VP of of products and strategy at Cyber-Ark Software, discusses new approaches to privileged password management with Keith Shaw. (12:22) Fingerprints are key to Privaris' success Privaris is taking an interesting approach to biometric security with its personal credential device, plusID. Network World's Jason Meserve gets the lowdown on the device from Privaris CEO John Petze on this edition of Network World Panorama. (11:36) * LATEST COOL TOOL BLOGS: Logitech merges speakers with USB hub Logitech today announced its AudioHub notebook speaker system, a 2.1 speaker system with an integrated USB hub with three USB ports for attaching additional peripherals. The device is expected in October and will cost $99.99. 6 guesses why Apple cut the iPhone price Who'd have thunk that the biggest story of the week from Apple wasn't its shiny new iPod devices or its spat with NBC regarding iTunes, but the $100 rebates now being offered by Apple to "disgruntled" early adopters who shelled out $600 to be the first "look at me" owners of the device, the world seems more interested in this news than about the new devices themselves. Apple makes a lot of people happy again Here's the quick rundown of all of the neat goodies announced last week by Apple. Taking credit for killing the Palm Foleo You may have heard that Palm has scrapped its Foleo "mobile companion" project, which was taking a beating in the technology blogosphere for distracting Palm from focusing on its smart phone devices and next-generation operating system. Portable video players will outsell audio-only devices, research firm says Here's an interesting tidbit about the future of the portable media player while we wait with the rest of the world for Apple's big announcement tomorrow and the likelihood of new iPods (see here, here and here).

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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 Confio Software Performance Management has a New Best Practice Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement. It allows you to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact, aligning your efforts with customer service levels. Using Wait-Time analysis allows IT to always find the root cause of the most important problem impacting customers, and always identify which critical resource will resolve it. Read this whitepaper and learn this new approach to performance management. 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