[TechRepublic] How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011

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Editor's note: See how CES 2011 has put Microsoft behind the eight ball for 2011. And, check out our new article on the shortage of IT security professionals in the US, as well as the link to ZDNet's live blog of the Verizon iPhone today, and info on Best Buy's new buy-back program. -Jason How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011 CES 2011 was one of the biggest and most bullish shows in years, but it was not a good one for Microsoft. See the four bad trends that conspired against Microsoft at this year's CES. Read more Resource of the day Increase innovation with Google Apps Businesses see Google Apps as an affordable solution for effective business communication and collaboration. Join this TechRepublic Webcast to learn why IT and business decision makers are making transition to Google Apps. More from TechRepublic   Should the U.S. draft cybersecurity experts? The United States has a shortage of workers skilled in IT security. Thus, we are unable to protect critical infrastructure from terrorist threats. FUD or real? What is the solution? Read more Midsize cities may be hotter for tech jobs than larger ones According to a new analysis, smaller populated cities such as Charlotte, N.C., Baltimore and Hartford, Conn., actually outrank many large cities such as Dallas and San Francisco in available tech jobs. Read more Proprietary Linux software: A big dilemma for many Linux users Jack Wallen re-visits a very touchy topic among Linux users - open vs. closed source. It's always been a hot debate and he wants to know the opinion of the TechRepublic community. Read more How will cloud computing change the IT pro's job in 2011 and beyond? Colin Smith advances some considered predictions about what the trend toward cloud computing really means to IT pros and organizations in 2011 and beyond. Read more News from ZDNet   Live Blog: iPhone comes to Verizon On Tuesday January 11, days after the close of CES 2011, Verizon Wireless is hosting an event to introduce its CDMA iPhone. Read more Buy Back Program from Best Buy Deals with Buyer's Remorse Best Buy has launched a program to help with buyer's remorse, the Buy Back program that gives on-the-spot rebates when you trade in a gadget for the next big thing. Read more Intel to pay NVIDIA $1.5 billion licensing fee Intel and NVIDIA ink a six-year cross-licensing agreement and drop all disputes. Read more IDC: Three emerging technologies to go mainstream in 2011 Analyst firm IDC predicts three disruptive technologies will move beyond the early-adopter phase and into the mainstream in 2011. ZDNet's Sumi Das sits down with IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens to discuss his picks and their impact on business and consumers. Read more Early benchmarks show AMD Fusion Ontario APU to be a potential Intel Atom smasher AMD is staking quite a bit on its new Fusion architecture -- which combines CPU and GPU in an Accelerated Processing Unit, or APU -- and the first independent benchmarks for a Toshiba NB550D netbook using the C-50 "Ontario" APU should encourage the chipmaker. Dutch site Hardware.info compared the C-50... Read more War of words between AT&T and Verizon escalate over iPhone There's nothing like squabbling over market share to bring out the childishness in multi-billion dollar corporations. Read more AT&T: Five reasons the sky won't fall when iPhone goes to Verizon With the launch of Apple's iPhone at Verizon Wireless Tuesday the histrionics over AT&T are about to commence. Here's the story line: AT&T will lose customers, momentum and will be lost without the iPhone. The reality is far more nuanced than that. Read more 5 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about America's new $1.5 billion cyber-security center Although this site is still arguably smaller than what Google or Amazon operate, it's going to be an important part of our national defense. Read more Four reasons to not get the Verizon iPhone We're hours away from the Verizon iPhone finally being announced. While Verizon's network is arguably superior to AT&T's, there are four main reasons why you shouldn't jump at the Verizon iPhone. Read more Will iPhone-Verizon deal, ChromeOS slow Android's momentum? One has to wonder if the fallout of the Verizon-iPhone deal includes a slowing down of Android's momentum. There's no doubt that Verizon's strong endorsement of Android-based smartphones has been a big boon for Google's open source mobile operating system. In the Northeast, at least, customers often go with the Droid or... Read more AMD looks for new CEO and growth, but likely to take a few hits first AMD is on the lookout for a new CEO as it aims to deliver more growth, but the company is likely to suffer initially due to uncertainty about its strategy. Read more Review: Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G leaves a lot to be desired Sprint and HTC decided to follow up the successful HTC EVO 4G with a smaller, cheaper model that sports a physical QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, the keyboard is not good enough to take on the Samsung Epic 4G on Sprint. Read more A 7-Inch iPad Can Shake up the Tablet Space, Again The mass display of me-too tablets at the CES last week is a testament to the tablet that Jobs built. While everyone else plays catch-up, Apple could shake things up again with a little iPad. Read more Sprint champions green mobile phone 'standard' Wireless carrier Sprint, which has pioneered the concept of offering 'greener-than-thou' mobile phone models to its customers, is working on what it is being billed as an international sustainability standard for mobile devices. The standard is being spearhead by UL Environment, which a subsidiary of Underwriter's Laboratories that is focused... Read more Don't expect Microsoft to support you plugging your Kinect into a PC any time soon It's amazing how quickly a small comment snowballs into something massive. Read more Featured multimedia   Dell Inspiron Duo teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the Dell Inspiron Duo convertible tablet in this TR Dojo teardown gallery. View on site Slideshow: Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7 Use the Disk Management Tool in Microsoft Windows 7 to shrink a hard disk volume to create room so you can add a new partition. View on site Best of CES 2011 awards ceremony (photos) The Best of CES awards were handed out Saturday morning, January 8. Here's a glimpse of the ceremony and the winners. View on site The coolest laptops of CES 2011 Want to see the coolest laptops of CES 2011? We've rounded them up in one handy spot. View on site The speakers of CES 2011 Speakers used to be boring black boxes. As CES 2011 shows, that's no longer the case. Here are some of the most unique speaker and home audio designs we saw at the show. View on site Robots at CES 2011 (photos) From mecha-dinosaurs to cyber-snakes and massage-bots, CES 2011 was chock-full of robots. Here are a few pics from the revolution. View on site Today's recommended downloads Physical security in mission-critical facilities (American Power Conversion (APC)) How USPS Saved Money by Centralizing Management of 30,000 Mobile Devices (ProfitLine) Address All Your Information Archiving and Retention Needs with IBM's Solution (IBM) How to Generate Immediate Savings from Mobile Spend (ProfitLine) Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.)   About this newsletter The Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the technology world. You'll get my opinions, rants, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011 CES 2011 was one of the biggest and most bullish shows in years, but it was not a good one for Microsoft. See the four bad trends that conspired against Microsoft at this year's CES. 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[TechRepublic] Should the U.S. draft cybersecurity experts?

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Should the U.S. draft cybersecurity experts? The United States has a shortage of workers skilled in IT security. Thus, we are unable to protect critical infrastructure from terrorist threats. FUD or real? What is the solution? Read more Resource of the day See Problems and Opportunities Before Your Customers Do Learn how the Progress RPM Suite integrates easily into your existing infrastructure to provide real-time visibility across your business. Take early action on problems and improve business processes. Download the product brochure now. Design simplicity is an important element of open source security Complexity can help kill some of the security benefits of open source software development, especially for small projects. Read more Key open source security benefits An attempt to explain the general security benefits of open source security by way of discussing only a single factor in a system's security will tend to be deficient. Chad Perrin urges skepticism for all security models when choosing software. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Tips for safer web browsing when using Adobe Flash on your Mac Vincent Danen agrees Adobe Flash is a security pitfall but knows that using it is not entirely unavoidable. Here are some ways to minimize the risk and the pain of Flash on the web. Read more Data Protection Manager 2010 migration successes and challenges Westminster College has made significant progress in migrating its backup operations from Backup Exec to Data Protection Manager 2010. Scott Lowe discusses some of the successes and the challenges of the project. Read more Cisco AnyConnect vs. IPsec VPN: Licensing considerations CCIE Brandon Carroll looks at the licensing issues for both Cisco AnyConnect and IPsec and offers advice on which one might be the better choice for your environment. Read more Quick Tip: Kill rogue processes with taskkill in Microsoft Windows Use taskkill to stop a rogue system process in Microsoft Windows 7 when the Task Manager is just not powerful enough. Read more Review: Track your bugs online with Bontq Bontq is for any business that needs a bug tracking and project management application but does not have the internal resources, or budget, for a full-blown application suite. Read more Featured multimedia   ioSafe Rugged Portable (photos) ioSafe introduced at CES 2011 its new disaster-resistant storage solution called the ioSafe Rugged Portable. This is an external hard drive that can take a serious beating. View on site Dell Inspiron Duo teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the Dell Inspiron Duo convertible tablet in this TR Dojo teardown gallery. View on site Top cracking open galleries of 2010 Xbox 360 S (2010) Apple MacBook Air (2010 11-inch) Apple iPhone 4 IBM System x3400 M3 small-office server Apple iPad Top 10 cracking open galleries of 2010 Today's recommended downloads 5 Steps to Improving the Audio Conferencing Experience (Citrix Online) Best Practices for Moving to Google Apps (Google) Hone Your Webinar Presentation Skills (Citrix Online) Download the Smarter Collaboration TCO/ROI Calculator (IBM) Data Center Projects: Standardized Process (American Power Conversion (APC)) How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011 CES 2011 was one of the biggest and most bullish shows in years, but it was not a good one for Microsoft. See the four bad trends that conspired against Microsoft at this year's CES.

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[TechRepublic] Dealing with Exchange 2010 gotchas, choosing the right Linux distribution, making sure your consulting jobs make money

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Five tips for handling Exchange 2010 gotchas If you're planning to migrate to Exchange 2010, you'll want to be aware of several issues. Scott Lowe explains how to deal with some of the biggest concerns. Read more Resource of the day How XML Is Changing the Data Warehouse With XML, you can support changing business reporting and analysis requirements without significant database schema changes or application rewriting. Read this white paper to see how IBM DB2 pureXML can increase your competitive advantage. Hottest new tips   Five tips for choosing the right Linux distribution If you're poised to give Linux a try, you'll want to make sure you pick a distribution that suits your needs. Jack Wallen zeroes in on the key factors that should guide your choice. Read more Five tips for being profitable in IT consulting One of the biggest challenges for IT consultants is making sure the work they take on will bring in enough money to be worthwhile. Brad Egelan shares some practical advice to help ensure profitability. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Quick Tip: Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7 Use the Disk Management Tool in Windows 7 to shrink a hard drive volume and make room for a new partition. Read more 10 Office tips I learned from readers in 2010 Some of the best information on TechRepublic is sparked by discussions that spring up around a particular tip or technique. Susan Harkins shares a selection of the insights, refinements, and creative alternatives she learned from members over the past year. Read more A humorous take on where sci-fi characters are now Wondering what happened to your favorite sci-fi characters after their heyday in Hollywood? Here's a tongue-in-cheek look at where Gort, the Tribbles, and other characters are now. Read more 10 ways to become an IT superstar Becoming a sought-after industry expert requires dedication, planning, and hard work. Here are some things you can do to make it happen. Read more Featured multimedia   The coolest laptops of CES 2011 Want to see the coolest laptops of CES 2011? We've rounded them up in one handy spot. View on site Today's recommended downloads Increase innovation with Google Apps (Google) Empower Your Sales Force Productivity (IBM) Under the Hood of Google Apps Security and Privacy (Google) Best Practices for Moving to Google Apps (Google) Propelling Your Business Through the Economic Crisis (IBM) How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011 CES 2011 was one of the biggest and most bullish shows in years, but it was not a good one for Microsoft. See the four bad trends that conspired against Microsoft at this year's CES. TechRepublic newsletters   Get Mac tips, product reviews, and smartphones news in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Macs in Business Product Spotlight Smartphones 10 Things Top cracking open galleries of 2010 Xbox 360 S (2010) Apple MacBook Air (2010 11-inch) Apple iPhone 4 IBM System x3400 M3 small-office server Apple iPad Top 10 cracking open galleries of 2010

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