Two New Wacom Bamboo Styluses for Touch Screens

In 2007 when the iPhone was introduced, I remember many of my colleagues and pundits saying things like “I just wish it had a stylus”. Of course Steve Jobs back then made fun of phones that required a stylus. Fast forward six years later and you definitely see people using most cellphones with their finger and NOT with styluses. Although I do use my finger with my iPhone and iPad there are times where a stylus is just better. The ones that come to mind are signing my signature and drawing/handwriting notes. My signature and handwriting are bad enough. I don’t need them to look any worse because I’m using my finger. I’ve been a fan of Wacom products for many years and felt that their Bamboo Stylus Solo was definitely one of the best! They’ve now added a couple more choices to the product line up.

My favorite now is the New Bamboo Duo Stylus. Here you get two devices in one. You get a great stylus for your touch screens on one end and on the other end you get a regular ballpoint pen. GREAT! Fantastic and certainly the one that’s now always in my pocket. It also comes in different colors.

The next one is cool, just not my 1st choice. The Bamboo Pocket Stylus is actually retractable. Push it together or pull it to expand and you get a full sized stylus. It also has a cap that’d designed to plug-in to the headphone jack on your port as a way to carry it. I definitely couldn’t see doing this on my iPhone, but I could potentially see doing this with an iPad. I’d actually rather see a case that has a slot for a stylus. While it doesn’t come in different colors it does ship with silver, blue and red rings that you use to add a spice of color.

There is no requirement to use a stylus with your smartphone or tablet. However, if you frustrated at times with the performance of your finger then you should probably invest in one. The Wacom Bamboo Styluses have a great feel to them both in hand on on screen.

You can get the Bamboo Duo Stylus + Pen here and the Bamboo Pocket Expandable Stylus here.

Polycom And AT&T Partner For Video Chat And Collaboration On Multiple Screens

Video conferencing is fast becoming a popular tool for communications among a growing number of businesses. But few want to invest the money in deploying the hardware necessary to make enterprise-class video conferencing and collaboration. That’s why Polycom is teaming up with AT&T to roll out a new managed offering to its business customers.

Today, AT&T and Polycom are announcing a strategic partnership that will combine Polycom’s RealPresence conferencing and collaboration platform with AT&T’s network to enable businesses to use video for communicating with employees, partners, and customers in real time.

Polycom RealPresence is available either on-premises or in the cloud, giving customers a choice as to how they want to enable video conferencing between participants. Not only does the platform work with Polycom equipment, but the company has worked hard over the past few years to make it interoperable with existing teleconference equipment from partners and competitors alike.

It also supports multiple desktop and mobile platforms, enabling users to log in and video chat from outside a Polycom telepresence room. That includes connecting via Macs or PCs, as well as a growing number of mobile devices, such as iPads and iPhones.

As part of the deal, AT&T will add the Polycom RealPresence platform to its telepresence offering, which will provide virtual meeting room capabilities and video collaboration features with a low overall cost of ownership. Since AT&T customers likely won’t be buying hardware of their own, but leveraging managed services and bundles that include AT&T-based telepresence rooms and personal systems, these telepresence services will provide cost-effective ways to leverage video chat services.

Those services will be available in 40 countries for a monthly fee, reducing the upfront cost of introducing enterprise-class video conferencing. It also reduces the amount of tech resources they need to deploy in their own organizations, since the offering is completely managed by AT&T technicians.

In addition to the partnership bringing managed video chat services to AT&T customers, the deal also means that Polycom will leverage the telco for its VPN services. While its customers will likely be able to specify their own VPN provider if necessary, AT&T will become the preferred VPN source for Polycom video and data communications for more than 80 different locations around the world.

Polycom is the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice, empowering people to connect and collaborate everywhere.

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Netflix confirms 14 new Arrested Development episodes, the Bluth family returns to screens this May

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If you asked Netflix, it'd probably agree there's more money to be had from the Bluth Family's banana stand -- after all, it did buy the exclusive rights to it. After months of waiting and anticipation, the company has confirmed that the fourth season of Arrested Development will arrive in May. This run of the revived sitcom will consist of 14 episodes in total, all of which will only be streamable from the house of Hastings servers. All we can hope for in the meantime is that, Maeby maybe, just maybe, a certain Gob Bluth will finally get his act together.

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