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On the far side of a lane of professional software application vendors, I rather stumbled across CalDigit. For the storage solution manufacturer from Placentia, in the outskirts of our very own sunny L.A., this was the first participation in the Paris Apple Expo. Yet, they had quite a number of visitors, interested in the impressive array of high performance hardware RAID storage boxes. And Li Chen, Caldigit’s director of sales & marketing from their Taiwan branch, had also one brand-new product up front – the new 399.00 US "Quadra RAID", on display here as a prototype. As of today, this baby is not even visible on the company’s Internet page:
The enclosure is made of solid aluminum, and the outstanding features of the Quadra RAID are immediately visible: an amber-colored illuminated display with a 2-button interface on the front allow direct access to various menus to control available capacity, RAID status and more. A dedicated panel of 5 multi-color LEDs and the elegant aluminum power button add to the professional-grade appearance of the system.
On the back of the aluminum casing, there’s the reason for the "Quadra" in the name: a full arrangement of four different interface technologies: 2x FireWire 800, 1x FireWire 400, 1x eSATA and 1x USB 2.0 (that’s five ports, alright). Inline with the ports, Caldigit places the power jack as well as block of dip switches to configure the RAID mode (either RAID 0, 1 or JBOD) and the usual oval-shaped hole to attach a Kensington Lock. Another quality feature is visible from the back of the enclosure too: it uses just the same type of hot-swappable full metal drive modules as its bigger brothers.
This brings me to one thing Li explicitly mentioned: CalDigit claims to offer "Single Vendor Support". That said, it means that CalDigit controls all parts in their products, so that if a component fails, say a drive module, a fan, a LED panel or a power supply, they will replace this component with a dedicated spare part. For the customer, this means they can stock original spare parts or order them as required. An important aspect looking for highly available storage systems.
In the following picture, Jennifer Yin of CalDigit California shows us the 8 bay "HDPro" (RAID 0/1/5/6/JBOD) with external PCIe connectors, up to 20 Gbps sustained throughput and its user-replaceable components, the "Quadra RAID" again and (in the back) the 4 bay "HD Element" (RAID 0/1/5/6/JBOD) with Mini SAS connection which is also easily user-serviceable (fans and power supply). On top of the HD Element, yet barely visible in the photo is the CalDigit "RAID Card" which fits any Mac Pro and supports up to 16 drives over four x4 Mini SAS connectors (3 external, 1 internal):
And here’s the final product news I brought home from the Apple Expo R3MIX’08 in Paris this year. Let’s start with Bernard de Fabribeckers from I.R.I.S in Belgium:
What Bernard called "The Belgium Sausage" is their new IRIScan 2 portable 600 dpi USB Scanner, available either in the "Express" or "Executive" package. The IRIScan Express 2 bundle sells for 129.00 Euros or US Dollars, just as you prefer. The Executive version offers the more complete software suite with the newer CardIRIS version 4 instead of 3 and the addition of "@Prompt Office 7", a translation software (which is for MS Windows systems only anyway).
As both packages are otherwise identical and equally feature their powerful OCR solution REadiris Pro 11 for Mac, plus some other Windows-only software, the one reason for me to go for the Executive bundle would be the inclusion of CardIRIS 4. I personally had some trouble with version 3 not behaving exactly the way I’d expect Mac software to behave. Maybe this would be a good occasion to review the new version of CardIRIS… To be fair, the IRIScan is more than a business card scanner as it supports up to legal sized documents. And, even CardIRIS 3 did what it was supposed to: digitize a bunch of business cards. And damned fast too.
Last but not least – "be.ez": simply because of their comfy wood and leather outfit their booth always stands out from the rest. And so does their casual presentation of "La Robe" neoprene skins for MacBook and MacBook Pro portables as well as their accessory pouches. This time, however, CEO Nicolas Cottard and Sales Manager Olivier Hache proudly showed off two samples of a new product line which will debut at this week’s Fotokina in Cologne/Germany:
The compact yet spacious 59.99 US Dollar "La Besace" photo bag Ema holds here before my camera lens is the smaller variant of the one pictured in the next photograph:
And, there’ll be a a much larger one available too, even capable of holding your portable Mac, apart from a wealth of photographic stuff. OK, this is the about-to-be-released family of photo and accessory bags in one shot:
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You know what a good memory for faces means, combined with frequent travels! You never know who the person is you’re sure you’ve met before. Enter Jackie Ballinger of Griffin USA. Simply didn’t expect her in Paris. But then Jackie showed me two of the most astounding little devices on the Paris Apple Expo: Griffin’s "AirCurve" and "Clarifi".
Available starting in October, the "AirCurve" is for everyone who rather won’t miss a phone call while walking around the office. And it’s a bargain for just 19.99 Euros (just the same in US Dollars). Just dump your iPhone into the AirCurve – whatever sound the phone makes, will be massively amplified:
But, how? No wires, no batteries, not even any connectors – Griffin’s AirCurve is a true wireless amplifier! We could play the guessing game, but I’ll tell you: this ingeniously designed, cute piece of acrylic and steel doesn’t require external power. The AirCurve neither draws from your iPhone’s battery. It’s simply an acoustic spiral, like Corti’s organ in our ears, or the sound funnel from those old turntables, molded right into the acrylic base.
And they have another one ready for the holiday season: the 34.99 Euros / US Dollars "Clarifi" is Griffin’s answer to the less-than-perfect fix focus digital camera in the iPhone 3G: combining a plastic protection sleeve with a sliding macro lens, the Clarifi takes your mobile do-it-all to new boundaries. Maybe this is what those barcode-capable iPhone apps have been waiting for:

Almost on my way off the show floor, I finally managed to stop by at Logitech. Should have done earlier. So, there remained just a couple of minutes for the latest news.
This is Logitech’s new QuickCam Vision Pro, readily available in Europe and the US with a price tag of 99.99 Euros (129.99 US Dollars):
The Vision Pro is a true 2.0 Megapixel web cam which attaches to your MacBook or MacBook Pro, boosts a Carl Zeiss optical lens with auto focus and Logitech’s RightLight adaptive lighting technology and digital stereo audio.
Literally a "highlight" of this year’s Apple Expo, and brand-new is the "Illuminated Keyboard". This ultraslim (max. height 9.3 mm), elegant keyboard of black finish with a transparent acrylic frame debuted in Paris and will be available in October for 79.99 Euros/US Dollars. The Illuminated Keyboard attaches via USB to any Mac or PC, the lighting of the keys can be adjusted in 3 steps or switched off completely – if you rather don’t look at what you’re typing:
Other news from Logitech include a bunch of improved or new mice like the "V450 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks" (39.99 EUR/USD, "Nano" transmitter, available in black, red or silver). The one mouse, Dominique Gerber, marketing manager of Logitech France was very proud of though, is the "V550 Nano" (also a cordless Laser Mouse for notebooks) which features a metal scroll-wheel which to me appeared to offer the same comfort and fast scrolling as the MicroGear scroll-wheels from e.g. the MX Pro or VX Pro. The V550 Nano sells for 49.99 Euros (same in US Dollars) and also makes use of the new Clip-and-Go dock. This is actually a small knob you can attach to the top cover of your notebook and it will then securely hold the mouse, wherever you go. The Clip-and-Go dock comes in two colors (black and silver), is removable, so you do not need to wonder, whether you just irreversibly damaged your MacBook or MacBook Pro while applying this neat little device.
One last thing to mention is Logitech’s Pure-Fi line of iPod, iPhone and mobile phone speaker systems. They’ve added the Pure-Fi Mobile (for mobile device capable of audio playback via Bluetooth), the 79.99 (99.99 US Dollars) tagged Pure-Fi Express Plus – a small boombox with remote control, for all current and recent iPod models, and the Pure-Fi Anytime (99.99 Euros/US Dollars) which is essentially a radio alarm clock able to host an iPod or iPhone.
Before we slowly say goodbye to Paris, let’s return to Algam Multimedia for another glimpse into the realm of music, sound and high fidelity: prominently placed at the entrance to the Apple Expo show floor, Algam demoed the Arturia Factory Experience and KORG’s new "nanoSERIES" of USB-MIDI controllers:
The Arturia Factory Experience is marketed as "The First Hybrid Synthesizer". Basically, this 299.00 Euros (349.00 USD) package consists of a high quality hardware controller and a software synthesizer complete with 3500 sounds (selected from the Arturia Classic Synths: minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP 2600 V, Prophet V, Prophet VS and Jupiter-8V). Should you rather want to use the legendary sounds with your own hardware, Arturia also showcased their "VCollection" pack of above seven software synthesizers, available for 499.00 Euros.
Ultra-compact, lightweight, yet fairly robust to be carried around, the nanoSERIES consists of three individual units: the "nanoKEY" (58.00 Euros) is a velocity-sensitive, 25-notes, MIDI controller keyboard, "nanoKONTROL" (70.00 Euros) has nine faders and knobs, 18 switches and offers 4 programmable scenes for up to a whopping 168 MIDI CC messages and MIDI notes using the switches. The six transport buttons can also be freely configured to control your music software. KORG offers their "KORG KONTROL Editor" software as a free download for use with the nanoKONTROL. Finally, and looking somewhat like the lower section of the company’s padKONTROL, the new "nanoPAD" (also at 70.00 Euros) is a fully programmable pad controller with 12 pads and an X-Y controller trackpad. All three nanoSERIES products come with a full set of bundled software including full licenses for either M1-LE, Ableton Lite Korg Edition or EZ Drummer Korg Edition.
But, the most visible pieces on the Algam stand were their Vinyl-to-Digital turntables. Their new top-of-the-line LP2CD HiFi player can either hooked up to your home theatre or audio studio, or you can use the built-in CD recorder to directly convert vinyl disk audio to digital CD media. Featured in our picture below is the 199.00 Euros LPDOCK, which comes bundled with Audacity, EZ Vinyl Converter 2 (Windows-only) and EZ Audio converter (Mac-only). The LPDOCK is equipped with an iPod dock as well as a USB port transfers your good ol’ vinyl records to either your iPod/iPhone or Mac:

Focal-JMlab:
This is yet another Apple Expo premiere: the Focal XS, according to its manufacturer designed to deliver “full multimedia sound”, is an elegant high performance 2.1 speaker set with an integrated USB sound card and iPod dock:
The Focal XS is one of the rarer iPod/iPhone compatible audio subsystems which actually allow not only playback but also charge, and synchronization with their docking electronics. And the XS comes with a tiny remote control which is magnetized so that it will attach to either of the satellite speakers:
More importantly though, the Focal XS produces a really impressive audio experience with a clarity and dynamics you could only guess with all the background noise of the Expo.
Manufacturer Focal-JMlab are known for producing professional-grade audio monitors and high-end loudspeakers – as well as a broad range of quality consumer systems for home and car audio. The company has more than two decades of experience and claims to be the French market leader in their segment.
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One of the Mac and iPod/iPhone accessories manufacturer you’ll find at every Apple Expo is Macally. Gregorio Fernández from Macally’s European branch showed me some of their hottest stuff. While I admittedly feel a little dizzy with the abundance of sleeves, protectors and pouches, those continuously attract flocks of customers eager to vest their precious mobile Apple devices. And rightly so. The newest kid on the block is almost a “classic”: the MCase-2T (19.95 Euros incl. VAT vs.19.99 USD w/o tax) is an update to the well-known slim but sturdy leather-style MCase which has been around for the original iPod touch for a while now:
What I like a lot is the iVoicePro (49.95 Euros incl. VAT; likely the same price tag in US Dollars), a stylish microphone and speaker combination, similar to the iVoiceIII but with improved sound, which plugs into the 5th generation iPod, 2nd and 3rd generation iPod nano and iPod classic. With its additional line-in stereo audio jack, you can record and mix sound from the iVoicPro’s microphone with practically any other external source:
Probably even more attractive to some is the new PowerLink, a 3-in-1 USB-to-Dock-Connector adapter, providing data sync and charge for your iPhone or iPod, as well as doubling as a backup battery with gives you up to an additional 60 minutes of talk time or even 2 to 3 hours of extra music playback. The PowerLink will be selling for the same price as the iVoicePro (49.95 Euros):
Ah, yes, for the US market, all prices are estimated to be a rough equivalent of the European ones, but, obviously without VAT/sales tax.
Algam Multimedia, the French distributor shows off SHURE earphones and accessories as well as ION products for Vinyl-to-USB and other audio recording accessories. François showed me their SE102 entry-level earphones, available for 79.00 Euros, which are actually the first such products from SHURE to breach the 3-digit-barrier and embrace also the high-quality mid-range market. A popular bargain on the show was the Music Phone Adapter MPA3C, destined to make any SHURE earphone compatible with the iPhone which regularly sells for 59.00 Euros:
New from ION – you may know the logotype with an asterisk in front of their name – is the U-RECORD A/D converter box which handles the conversion of audio recordings on vinyl and K7 audio media to the digital age via USB. A driverless installation on any compatible Mac or PC also includes Audacity (Mac and Windows) and EZ Converter (Windows-only). The U-RECORD sells for 59.00 Euros.
Some new AKG products, not even out yet, courtesy of Philippe Guerin from Harman France:
K 309 P (earbud type), SRP 9.99 Euros, colored in “juicy orange” or “cocoa brown”, new entry-level model (18 HZ – 20 kHz, 124 dB/mW, 17 Ohms)
K 315 P (earbud type), SRP 24.99 Euros, colored either in “pebble black” or dual-colored with “brick red” (17 Hz – 23 kHz, 126 dB/mW, 17 Ohms, 5 grams)
K 317 P (earbud type), SRP 59.99 Euros, colored “snow white” with black and red (17 Hz – 25 kHz, 129 dB/mW, 17 Ohms, 5 grams)
K321 P (in-ear type), SRP 39.99 Euros, “cloud white” or “sky blue” (13 Hz – 22.5 kHz, 121 dB/mW, 16 Ohms, 4 grams)
and the very lightweight, aggressively-looking “wasp” or “scarab” colored K 330 P (12 Hz – 23.5 kHz, 121 dB/mW, 16 Ohms, 3 grams) for 69.99 Euros suggested retail price.
OK, all weights are without cables.

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Parrot SA:
What does a parrot have to do with Apple, Macs and the iPod or iPhone? The colors of the original Apple logotype? Well, I’d say it’s more likely the manufacturer’s claim of enabling you to "Move Wireless" – they heavily bet on Bluetooth and WiFi, and NFC (Near Field Communication) and more connectivity options are closer than on the horizon.
At their crowded stand, Audrey and Pauline show me their new MKi9x00 line of car handsfree audio systems, specifically designed to support the various iPods or iPhones, and each of the three different sets comes with the connectors required to use basically any given music player on the market. All the Parrot handsfree kits have text-to-speech and multi-speaker voice recognition and voice dialing built-in.
The MKi9000 consists of just the connectivity and a wireless multifunctional control which comfortably attaches to your car’s steering wheel. The mid range sibling, MKi9100, features an additional bright dot matrix display, effectively providing the necessary visual feedback while you control your music playback or in-car phone calls:

Of course, with the high-end MKi9200 comes a bigger and full-color display which let’s you not only more visually interact with your iPod or iPhone while keeping your hands on the wheel, but it also offers multimedia features such as displaying slideshows of photos on your handheld:

Just when I was about to leave their booth, I saw this perspective giving you a nice view of not only the award-winning SK4000 motorcycle handsfree kit (iF Product Design Award 2008) but also a glimpse of Parrot’s wireless stereo audio speakers (audio transmission and channel synchronization via Bluetooth, make sure your mobile phone supports the A2DP protocol for stereo audio though!), boom-box and digital photo frames. And to avoid any confusion – the control device for the helmet’s audio does not have any wires. What you see is the audio cord for your music player:

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Like on most of the Apple- and Mac-related shows in recent years, audio and video take up a growing proportion of the show floor: professional production hardware and software, service providers and accessories demonstrate that Apple has conquered the desktop A/V market just like it practically invented the DTP industry since 1984:
This kid’s getting a first hands-on experience with the Wacom Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen display which over here sells for just below 2,500 Euros. The 12-inch version Cintiq 12 WX may be much better targeted at this customer’s budget with the roughly 50% of its bigger brother’s price:

Color Grading using “Color” included with Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2 and an true professional-grade control panel from Atreid:

Once you’ve touched the cool black surface and smooth precision dials, you don’t ever want to mess with mouse-centric UI controls again, not for accurate color adjustment that is. After all, are you a Pro or what?!
Simultaneously, with the success of those ubiquitous iPods, now the iPhone and the iTunes Store as its back-end, came the foray into Consumer Land. Which is good. Extremely good. Actually it’s essential to Apple’s continuously strengthening position in the IT industry worldwide… but, oh well, someone switch off that amp over there, please!
With a myriad of different deafening and interfering soundtracks it’s frankly impossible to make oneself heard over just a few feet! OK, enough complaining, on with business: everyone’s getting along well, even notorious competitors make fun of their meeting every week at a different show in the world these days.
And so are Sennheiser and the likes ever present with quite distinct appearances, friendly staff and a great customer experience. The former with a dance-floor-like setup and live DJ, transmitting a vibrant soundscape:

Harman/JBL/AKG invest in style over BPM, attracting design students from Europe’s traditional capital of Fine Arts, fashion industry and Savoir Vivre:

Apart from their current and upcoming line of products…

… one splendid new set of high quality active speakers caught my eyes. The massive, heavy, crystal-like GLA-55 which are still to be released and I’m told they’ll cost 599 Euros:

And back to the grass roots and garageband mentality of making music: not being a Mac-related product at all, the XBOX-360-based “RockBand” entertainment system from Harmonix Music Systems is a big hit with the audience of Apple Expo R3MIX’08!

I’ve spotted it twice yet in live performances: once, in “corporate” RockBand colors, close to Microsoft’s ample booth, and once, directly left of the entrance area, being marketed by the local distributor Algam Multimedia.
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Mini
Fancy European cars? Sports cars? Fun cars? Well, like it or not, they’ve been on every Mac fair recently, and no, I won’t give you the full picture. Go and see for yourself! But, OK, here’s a glimpse of what you’re missing:

It’s really fun in the cockpits of either, the new Mini John Cooper Works Edition (Mini J.C.W.) or the much more spacious Mini D Clubman.
In the live cars they brought to the show floor in Paris this year, Mini promote their in-car iPhone connection and of course their entire range of accessories and life style products.

End of Day 1
What a day, unexpected meetings, many nice people, more stuff to talk about than fits the agenda. And I don’t even know what’s going on here:

.. definitely must check tomorrow what they’ve got in store for me!
Before I left the Expo for the night, I came across this "booth with a view". Isn’t it nice to know you’re surrounded by picturesque Paris while dealing with all that high tech stuff and walking your heels off? BTW, that’s the Nike+ booth I mentioned already. And as you can see, they’re advertising their global campaign "THEHUMANRACE+" big time!

But, the real Paris is nicer still – just another touristic snapshot from the famous Tour de Montparnasse with a splendid horizon and the notorious Metro sign:

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ACRUSH GmbH
CEO Scipio Schneider showed me his broken original iPhone with the shattered glass surface: definitely not something you’d want to see yourself, and the reason for ACRUSH’s new iPhone 3G shock protector (debuting in Paris) to come to life: as Scipio puts it, most hazardous are drops on the floor, where the iPhone hit the ground laterally, and this side impact
then breaks the glass front.

With the first samples of ACRUSH looking as nicely as they do, they also feel very smooth and preserve much of the elegant touch of the iPhone 3G: the silicone bumper nicely protects the devices edges, without covering the smooth back, but still providing an increased protection on the front, with a small elevated rim framing the iPhone’s display.

ACRUSHs come in various colors, most are translucent, one even glows in the dark. At the show, they sell at a special discount price of 10 Euros, the final production will be available for 14 or 15 Euros, US pricing pending.
Nike+
At the Apple Expo in Paris, Nike+ are everywhere, starting on the outside with highly visible red cars and trucks:
Their booth in Hall 5 itself is ample, and the staff eagerly presented Nike’s newest additions to the Nike+ line of sports shoes.
Pilla and Alexandre showed me their new “ZOOM VICTORY+” series, actually a direct derivative of the racing shoe at the Peking Olympics this summer. Nike’s new “FLYWIRE” technology allows for a much more lightweight construction of the shoes’ upper by using heavy-duty nylon threads to distribute and direct the force from the foot to the ground. Also readily available, and too FLYWIRE-equipped, are the LUNAR RACER and LUNAR TRAINER.
Much like a spider’s web, instead of the heavier and thicker plastic applications we’ve grown used to over time, FLYWIRE directly applies to the mesh-like surface, resulting in more lightweight and slimmer shaped shoes. I must say, those shoes look a little like sneakers, although Nike positions them right within their running, racing and training series.
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One of this show’s product news comes from iomega: the “eGo Helium” portable hard drive, designed specifically for the MacBook Air, is a shiny enclosure in aluminum finish with a sole Mini USB connector in the back and, supposedly, the ideal storage companion for your ultra portable Mac.
The drive itself weighs in at 165 grams with exterior maximum dimensions of 13 x 88 x 120 millimeters. It really has a cute design and is tinier than may appear from my photo below. And, as with the MacBook Air itself, the wedge-like form factor nicely hides the 13 mm thickness:

According to Melanie and Tilman, at the iomega booth, the eGo Helium is expected to start selling in October this year, in Europe around 120 Euros, we will try to get a quote for the US target price.
Another debut from iomega is the “UltraMax Plus” desktop hard drive (third from the right in the photo below). This relatively small dual bay aluminum enclosure actually comes as a quadruple interface device with a 3 port USB 2.0 Hub, two FireWire 800 and one FireWire 400 and eSATA port each. Two dedicated LEDs on the front monitor the drives’ status.
The UltraMax Plus will be available in two configurations: 1 TeraByte (2 500 GB drives), for 289 Euros, and the 2 TeraByte model for 379 Euros.

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Some Macbooks and Mac folk on the train to Paris, Le Metro packed with commuters, then some “signal failure” turns out to be an accident and blocks the entire line… No way of getting to the Expo grounds in time before public transport goes to sleep.
Thanks to the ever friendly Parisiennes I walk my way to the hotel through streets of abandoned taxis. As Apple doesn’t exhibit at this year’s Expo, there are no iPod posters anywhere – a sharp contrast against those many years where not only downtown Paris was virtually covered in Apple’s imagery.
So, what does the hungry Mac user do around midnight in Paris? Yes – buy a fresh and tasty apple for the vitamins…
Getting up with a (distant) view of the Tour Eiffel: the Eiffel tower had been looming in the back of the nightly skyline, with his flashing beam hovering over Paris – now, in early morning dusk the landmark is dwarfed by a giant concrete chimney.
One other thing did change, too, overnight: adverts for this year’s Apple Expo R3MIX ’08 appeared, everywhere. Some still wet with glue, while the stairs in front suggest that whoever put the poster to this Metro wall, probably just went for a Café of sorts.

Those of you who are familiar with the Paris Expo grounds at Porte de Versailles know how beautifully the old entrance building contrasts with the shapes and sizes of the more futuristic buildings there.

Hall 5, the place where Apple Expo is (again) being held, is an entirely different breed…

Confused faces greeted me in front of this huge glass-and-concrete building: last year, with Apple participating, the place was crowded with regular visitors queueing for the start of the show. In 2008 everyone has to enter from the side:

But still, the usual buzzing atmosphere welcomes everyone entering. Press accreditation is a breeze, very well organized, as well as the printout of regular badges. Now, let’s check the WiFi access for members of the media… wow! works! nice! Although later, it turns out to be a rather unstable connection

What’s the main difference you’d expect from the biggest European Apple/Mac-related show with Apple being absent?
You’d expect a huge void where those notorious black desks and show arenas were?
No Sir! Instead of a white logotype on black walls and boxes, and many helpful Apple staff, Paris this year hosts “ATN – Agora des Talents Numériques” who basically are doing just the same as the Crews from Cupertino and Apple France before: show off Apple’s products and related software and hardware, set up in typical environments for Audio, Video and special solutions. A full schedule of accompanying events for everyone interested really leaves a good impression of this stand-in concept. And I can tell you – in the afternoon, the area was packed:
More to come! Check back later!
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This weekend, we go back two years to David Cohen’s Introduction to Wireless Networking article. A must read if you are thinking of setting up a wireless network for the first time. Check it out here.

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