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U.S. CTO: Three big targets for today's tech entrepreneurs For tech entrepreneurs looking for the next big opportunity, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra recommends three areas to target. Read more Editor's note After you read about the three big areas for innovators to target, read the latest news on Google+ coming to Google Apps customers, Microsoft giving away 25,000 Nokia phones to developers, and Dropbox launching a business version. -Jason Resource of the day Free 2011 Salary Report IT Professionals - Register on activeTechPros for immediate access Business Professionals - Join the activeBizPros community to view the report More from TechRepublic   Key factor for Nokia and Windows Phone 7: Android angst While the first round of Nokia Lumia handsets running Windows Phone 7 looks solid, their fate will likely rest in the hands of Android. Read more What happened to going paperless? Remember that quaint idea for offices to go paperless? What can we learn from this failed technology revolution? Read more Netflix CEO shows us the fastest way to end a successful career Many great companies have been brought down by the power of an arrogant leader. In this article executive leadership coach John M McKee discusses Netflix and its leader. Read more What should manufacturers put in the cloud? Aditi Ghatak takes a look at the cloud options for the manufacturing industry. What cloud-based solutions are particularly suited for manufacturing functions? Read more News from ZDNet   Google+ finally arrives for Google Apps customers Soon, nearly everyone on Google Apps will have access to Google+. Read more Dropbox launches Dropbox for Teams; Courts businesses Dropbox doesn't actively track consumer vs. business accounts but out of 1 billion files, "100s of millions" have formats---.PDF, .XLSX, .PPTX---associated with enterprise use. Read more Microsoft, Nokia to give 25,000 Windows Phones to committed developers New Windows Phones aren't the only fruit from the Microsoft-Nokia partnership. Their combined resources will benefit developers, too, the pair said at Nokia World. Read more Don't diss my phone: Nexus S to get Ice Cream Sandwich within weeks Google has confirmed that the Nexus S will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich within weeks, so owners can feel a little smug right about now. Read more 'Google-like IT automation for the rest of us:' Puppet and Chef Chef and Puppet -- open source-based services available through the cloud -- enable management of data centers of any size. Read more NVIDIA looks to the datacenter NVIDIA might be the datacenter GPU of choice, but it looks like they might be considering a run at being your general purpose datacenter CPU Read more British MPs call for prison sentences over data protection breaches UK Parliament's justice select committee's latest report suggests breaches in data protection law should be bolstered and include prison sentences for serious offences. Read more IBM launches cloud computing software and packaged hardware configurations IBM launched SmartCloud packages and then follows through with easy-to-use pre-packaged BladeCenter cloud computing configurations. Read more Almost half of British students 'vulnerable to identity theft' How important is data to British students? Clearly not enough, according to a poll which showed nearly half were worried about their post-Facebook job prospects. Read more Google to cops: Police brutality videos will stay on YouTube Google's role as archivist for important videos that capture history in the making will not be removed from YouTube just because they portray police officers behaving badly. Read more Featured multimedia   Must-have mobile apps for smart workers ZDNet Asia picks out top apps across four mobile platforms--iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone--to put some organization into your life. View on site Nokia's flexible, kinetic device interface (photos) Here's a look at the flexible device from Finnish mobile phone company. It's controlled by twisting and bowing the device. View on site Today's recommended downloads Free 2011 Salary Report Finance and IT: Greater Collaboration in a New Economy (IBM) Live Webcast: Fast-Track your Subversion Journey to the Cloud (CollabNet) The Kellogg Executive MBA Program Cloud Adoption Advisor (IBM)   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the products, people, and ideas that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief For real-time updates on the latest tech stories, follow: My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner My Google+ feed: +Jason Hiner Predicting the future of tablets in the enterprise Patrick Gray offers some insight about what we can expect to see next for tablets, particularly in the enterprise space. Must-read posts The 10 rising tech trends of 2012 Top IT skills wanted for 2012 Tablets will replace PCs for many enterprise users What the IT department will look like in 2015

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