| Latest Twisted Pair podcast: Playing with fire at CES
Keith and Jason tackle CES 2009 in Las Vegas covering everything that's hot and not in the world of consumer technology. (24:57) Latest Cool Tool blogs: CES video roundup: Boy, we were busy
OK, when I wasn't getting my rock star vibe on, I was able to produce a few videos at the show. Along with help from the IDG News Service, here's a list of my favorite videos and products launched at the show. Video: Fire, flood won't stop this hard drive
My favorite video from CES last week was this one we did with the folks at ioSafe, which is selling a $150 external hard drive that is completely waterproof and fireproof. To showcase how practically indestructible this enclosure / system is, we submerged the unit into a pool, and then set it on fire. The video says it all. Confessions of a CES "rock star"
Nothing stressed me out more at CES last week than agreeing to participate in SanDisk's "Battle of the Bloggers" Rock Band 2 Challenge. Held on Friday afternoon at the SanDisk booth, the event was held to try and see which gadget bloggers could "rock the hardest" during an 8-team elimination tournament of the game Rock Band 2. The event was held to promote SanDisk's new 2GB SD card that can be used with the Nintendo Wii version of Rock Band 2, so of course the teams were playing that version of the game (more on that later). CES: Cool stuff from D-Link, Seagate
I hit my first press event last night, the annual pre-show Digital Experience gathering where hundreds of journalists walk around a giant ballroom and either try to avoid PR people, talk with each other (gossip!) or actually talk with tech vendors about some new products. I did a little of each of those, here's a wrapup of some of the cool products I saw at the event. Welcome to Vegas, CES time!
OK, I'm going to try and remain positive, despite a trip that began with a two-hour flight delay, de-icing of a plane, a 6-hour flight in which another passenger passed out about two rows in front of me (first time I've ever heard a flight attendant ask for a doctor over the intercom), a wicked-bad migraine and then the fireworks/music extravaganza that is the Siren show (the old pirate show at Treasure Island was much better) blasting right outside my window as I write this. I'm officially in Las Vegas, and despite what possibly was the longest run-on sentence I've written in a long time, I'm still ready to hit the show floor and press previews and cocktail parties and cab lines (wait, maybe those will be shorter since "nobody" apparently is coming, at least to the cab driver I spoke with on the way in) at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009. Latest from The video library: CES videos Cleaning solution you can drink
Forget the harmful chemicals in your standard screen or glasses cleaner, Purosol gets the job done and can quench your thirst as Keith finds out at CES 2009. Fire and floods don't stop this hard drive
ioSafe's new Solo USB hard drive will keep your precious data safe from fire and floods. Keith gets a hot demo to prove it. Tom Hanks as gadget reviewer
During Sony's keynote at the show, Howard Stringer talked about some futuristic glasses, and the audience got an instant review from actor Tom Hanks. Not your grandma's photo frame
IPEVO's slick new digital photo frames can rotate to a portrait orientation and can pull data wireless from your hard drives and online photo accounts. Webcams go 3-D
The Webcam is standard on most computers these days, but we saw one that uses to cameras to produce a 3-D image. Honey, they added a screen on my laptop
Lenovo's unique ThinkPad W700ds made its debut at CES, with its slide-out additional display. Inkjet printing at turbo speeds
Memjet's new ink-jet printing technology makes pages fly out of the printer. Enjoy the "stuff" on your hard drive
Seagate's new FreeAgent Theater HD lets you easily pull pictures, video and more off your hard drive and display it all easily on your television. Create automatic backup with any hard drive
Clickfree's Transformer cable turns any manufacturer's hard drive into a backup device with the click of a button. Cisco brings all your media together
Linksys' NAS-based Media Hub brings all the music together from your local area network and provides a single view of all your tunes. It's a Wi-Fi World
Keith sits down with the Wi-Fi Alliance's Kelly Davis-Felner to get an update on the progress of 802.11n and the continued proliferation of devices featuring a wireless connection. Palm's new Pre smart phone
The Pre touch phone and webOS has unique features, but also ones that are more commonplace. With nods to the iPhone gesture controls and a flick of the finger let users scroll through picutes. You can also use two fingers to zoom in and out. Steve Ballmer's CES solo debut
Steve Ballmer took the stage Wednesday night to deliver Microsoft’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. Lenovo's pull-out notebook screen
Lenovo's unique ThinkPad W700ds is getting its official launch this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Charge gadgets via magnetic induction
Tangled wires and cables for charging different devices will be a thing of the past if Powermat has anything to say about it. Blu-Ray player goes mobile
Now you can take high-def movies on-the-go. Panasonic has developed a portable Blu-ray Disc player with 8.9-inch screen and plans to put it on the market in the U.S. in May. More videos from the show are available here. Latest Network World Panorama podcast: 5 Ways Employees can Sabotage Your Network
With a poor economy and layoffs looming at a company, the most trusted employees can often turn and become an insider threat. Tim Connelly from Netcordia discusses five different ways that they can attack your network as a way for revenge or even profit (from data theft). (7:36) Latest Newsmaker of the Week podcast: Could Obama stimulus create 1 million tech jobs?
Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank, discusses how the federal government could create 1 million new jobs by investing $30 billion into America's IT infrastructure. Latest DEMO podcast: How much personal info should tech CEOs reveal?
Carla and Keith talk about the importance of a technology CEOs personal life (in light of the Steve Jobs health news), and what start-ups should take away from events like CES and Macworld. (18:54). LATEST FROM Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest: The Ajax developer's toolkit - Nate Shutta
Continuing from an earlier podcast, this time we will start looking at the software that has been selected for use on the Ultimate Analysis Laptop project. We next have a conversation with Robert Botcheck, President of Tableau LLC discussing the proper ways to gather a proper forensic copy of a drive for later analysis or use in a legal situation. (46:50) Latest from Microsoft Subnet Premature to Call Pre the savior of Palm
Palm announced its iPhone-killer touchscreen phone, the Pre, and so gadget guy blogger Mitchell Ashley had to review the news and has mixed thoughts. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here. | 
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