| TechRepublic Out Loud | Camera photo challenge: Costumes and pumpkin carvings TechRepublic is continuing the camera phone challenge, and this is the perfect time of year to capture some great costume and pumpkin carving photos. You have from now until Friday, November 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM EDT to submit camera phone photos of costumes and pumpkin carvings. Read Full Blog | Question of the Week | Connect to TechRepublic account using a Blackberry Alright, so Darryl's work gave him a nice new "crackberry", it's nice, I wouldn't mind having one myself some day....but anyway, to his dilema. Could someone who has TR on theirs please give him a hand on how to connect to his account? Any assistance would be hugely appreciated. -- PurpleSkys Read Full Question | Tip of the Week This week's Tip of the Week begging is brought to you by TR moderator: Tammy Cavadias. Wanted: Your Best Tips and Tricks If you have cool tips or tricks that you'd like to share with your TechRepublic peers -- from navigating your OS, keyboard shortcuts, or even uncovering hidden Easter eggs -- simply click here to send them in. If we feature your tips or tricks in the TechRepublic Out Loud blog, we'll send you some TechRepublic swag! | | | Member Photo Gallery | Quite a few TR members have pets at home, and this is the purrrfect place to show them off. This week's "pet of the week" is Trouble, submitted by TR member - Tdozzyx. View Full Gallery | Swag Central | Each week, we randomly select three TechRepublic members -- listed below (in Orange) -- to receive some TechRepublic swag. | | Lock'emDown | csandrews68 | ThumbsUp2 | | If your name appears above (again - in Orange), simply send us an email with your mailing address, and you'll soon be sporting your very own TechRepublic swag. Just remember, you only have until 11:59pm ET, Friday, October 29, 2010 to let us know you spotted your name! (Please send all correspondence from your registered email with TechRepublic.) | | |  |  | Connect with TechRepublic | | | Community Happenings | Smartphones Learn how to deploy and manage smartphones in your enterprise, and see reviews and photos when new smartphones are released. Automatically sign up today! | ............................................................................................. | Project Management Resource Kit Despite the odds, organizations expect projects to be completed faster, cheaper, and better. Plan your next project and ensure that it comes in on time, under budget, and at a high quality level with TechRepublic's Project Management Resource Kit today! Read Full Description | | | | | |
TechRepublic IT News Digest TechRepublic Member | October 25, 2010 | |  | | | News from ZDNet | | Samsung Galaxy Tab coming to Sprint on November 14 The Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will be coming to all four major US wireless carriers and Sprint gets theirs on 14 November. Read more | RIM intros SDK, PlayBook simulator for BlackBerry Tablet OS Research In Motion dropped two new goodies for developers over at Adobe Max today: the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR and a PlayBook simulator. Read more | Gingerbread man arrives at Google Last time Google got a shipment of an oversized dessert, it was only about a week until the release of Froyo. Today Google received a giant Gingerbread man to join the collection of other desserts. It's unclear if that means we're only days away from the Gingerbread release, but it... Read more | Microsoft vs. Apple: Who's winning? The numbers don't lie Is Apple really making a dent in Microsoft's long-standing Windows monopoly? Are mobile devices taking over tasks that used to be done by PCs? To answer these questions, I went off in seacrh of hard numbers and found four unmistakable trends. Read more | Ubuntu splits from GNOME UI: A good, pragmatic move Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth detailed how Ubuntu will split from the GNOME user interface for Unity, which is its netbook approach. Simply put, Ubuntu will have a custom user interface. Read more | Is two years too long to wait for Windows 8? Microsoft is working on Windows 8, which is no surprise to us all. What is interesting is that it will probably take another two years for it to surface: in or around of 2012. Is this too long to wait? Read more | Broadcast networks blocking Google TV's access to shows on their Websites Wanna watch full episodes of your favorite shows from the networks' own Websites using your new Google TV device? Well, you can't, thanks to ABC, CBS, and NBC blocking their sites using Google's just-released platform. You can probably figure out why. The big three can still sell a lot more... Read more | Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect on the 'post-PC world' Ray Ozzie may be a lame duck at this point, as he will soon be leaving his Chief Software Architect post at Microsoft. But that hasn't stopped him from publishing an updated assessment of Microsoft's strategy and products. Read more | MacBook Air and the future of notebooks If there's one Apple product that professionals love to hate, it's the MacBook Air, Apple's super-lightweight notebook that was just refreshed. At the launch event, Steve Jobs said the future of notebooks can be seen today in the new MBA. Whether the sexy Air is right for everyone at this... Read more | What will you pay for an Android tablet? Wrong answer: $499 Best Buy will reportedly sell the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Wi-Fi version, for $499. That's $100 too high to sway this consumer. Read more | Amazon: Latest Kindle generation sales surpass fourth quarter 2009 While Amazon's overall profits might seem up and down, the Kindle is certainly helping boost revenues. The online retail giant is reporting that the sales of the third generation device have already surpassed sales between October and December 2009. Read more | Borders gets revolutionary on e-book reader prices Borders has launched its biggest e-book reader sale yet with up to $30 off select e-book readers this week. Read more | Apple unbundles Flash Player from Mac OS X; Java next Word is out that Apple will ship all new Mac OS X machines without Adobe Flash Player pre-installed. Read more | Adobe launches AIR 2.5, InMarket service: Aims for TVs, tablets, phones Amid a few more jabs from Apple, Adobe rolled out its AIR 2.5 platform, which allows developers to create apps across multiple devices such as TVs, tablets, smartphones and PCs. Read more | |  |  | Connect with TechRepublic | | | | | |
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