[TechRepublic] You, yourself, and Google: Managing your personal search ranking

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You, yourself, and Google: Managing your personal search ranking Google has released a few tools to help you monitor where and how your name shows up in a search ranking. Kevin Purdy shows you how to edit your Google Profile. Read more Resource of the day AD Provisioning: More Efficient, More Secure, Wouldn't it Be Nice? Managing your active directory would be easier if you didn't have to spend so much time provisioning users. Read this white paper to learn how provisioning users in your active directory can be easier, and even more secure. More from TechRepublic   Use your common sense when it comes to Microsoft's mobile strategy focus Microsoft's lack of product and market focus may be earned, but that doesn't mean they don't have a viable mobile strategy, especially if you apply some common sense. Read more ASUS Eee Pad Transformer tablet is a mixed bag Despite its issues, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is the strongest Android Honeycomb tablet on the market, according to reviewer Donovan Colbert. Read more How Mac OS X Lion will impact businesses using Macs Erik Eckel explains why he is confident that Mac OS X Lion will be beneficial to business users and highlights some of the new features he thinks will have the most impact. Read more 10 reasons why not to accept that promotion Before you accept a promotion, it's important to take a step back and reflect on the pros and cons. This week, John M McKee shares 10 reasons for why you may want to pass on a promotion opportunity. Read more 10 ways to keep PCs cool this summer Guard against hardware failure by following a few easy tips that will help your PC beat the heat. Read more 10 ways the Linux community can fix the mess on the desktop The Linux desktop has become somewhat chaotic, thanks in part to Ubuntu Unity. Jack Wallen offers a list of suggestions he says will put the desktop back on track. Read more News from ZDNet   IT organizations becoming cloud providers: IDC survey New IDC survey finds many IT executives agreeing that corporate IT departments are evolving into that of cloud providers. Read more LulzSec: Doing it more for the money than the lulz? It's clear that Lulzsec is far beyond doing it for the "lulz." At this point, money seems to be a primary focal point as their goals become more ambitious. Read more Google hits one billion visitors per month In a first for any Internet company, Google hit one billion unique visitors in May. Read more The failing of Android as a tablet platform My personal preference for Android aside, I have to be honest and state that Android is failing as a tablet platform compared to the competition. Google has let it happen, and only Amazon can... Read more Five reasons Android can fail I want Android to succeed and grow, but the way things are going, I'm beginning to doubt that it will thrive in the long run. Read more Tablet wars: RIM lowers PlayBook estimates, Amazon readies tablet, iPad rolls on The tablet wars are heating up: RIM is halving sales forecasts of its PlayBook tablet, as Amazon is readying its Android tablet to shake up the tablet segment. Meanwhile Apple keeps selling iPads... Read more Amazon tablets reportedly being prepped: Watch prices fall What's the big deal? Amazon has enough parts to make its tablet competitive with Apple's iPad. The key thread here is price. How cheap can Amazon tablets get? Read more Google rolls out reverse image search: RIP Tineye Did Google just destroy Tineye to claim the throne of supreme reverse image search engine? I think so. Read more Amazon CTO: Cloud computing is defined by its benefits There's a lot of talk that cloud computing is the next era of IT, but Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels argues that the cloud will only be successful depending on the benefits it offers. Read more 2011 iPad Office apps showdown: Who says you can't work on the go? The iPad clearly leads in the tablet space and this year we find even more Office apps available while those from last year are even better and more capable. There is no excuse for not getting... Read more Internet's next evolution: 'a Facebook without Facebook.com' 'Data's got a name, not a location:' Content-Centric Networking may finally free data and applications from underlying plumbing. Read more Google invests another $102 million in wind power Google and Citibank are each contributing $102 million to Terra-Gen Power's Alta Wind Energy Center in California. 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