"A WiMAX-equipped laptop gives on-the-go consumers the connection speeds they're used to in the office or at home without the need for additional hardware, " said Carl Pinto, vice president of product development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.

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"We understand that consumers have varying capacity needs and we strive to provide solutions that match differing requirements, " said Maciek Brzeski , vice president of product marketing and development of branded storage products, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.

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"We've designed the Toshiba SBX4250 Sound Bar to provide incredible audio performance, while maintaining ease of use even when wirelessly streaming audio from a mobile device, " said Scott Ramirez, vice president of product marketing and development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.

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Ruben Canlas, Web Information Systems Consultant at the Asian Development Bank, Belina Capul, President of the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA) and Ray Edmonson, Director of Archive Associates, Australia and a UNESCO Memory of the World Committee Member.

UNESCO: Education

The participants agreed to the need to develop more robust ICH information systems both for institutional knowledge management and also for the enhanced visibility of ICH for sustainable development in the region, and identified several constraints including technological infrastructure.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN APIA

So, good list, Forbes, but you left out the most important tools of all, the cognitive artifacts that have truly made us smart: writing and notational systems, objects of travel and information technology, which really picked up somewhere around the development of the telegraph, but could be argued to have developed earlier with the wide variety of signaling systems.

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