[TechRepublic] Two laptops for Windows users with MacBook Air envy

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Two great laptops for Windows users who have MacBook Air envy The 11-inch MacBook Air has set a new standard for mini laptops, but not everyone wants a Mac. See how the Sony Vaio X1 and the Acer Timeline X can dispel MacBook Air envy for Windows users. Read more Photos: Two great MacBook Air competitors for Windows users Resource of the day Businesses Thrive with Google Apps Learn why IT and business decision makers at SmartPractice chose Google to better support a growing mobile workforce on several different types of communication platforms and devices. More from TechRepublic   12 ways for smartphones to be more business-ready Smartphones still have a way to go before the mobile devices are extremely useful business tools straight out-of-the-box. Deb Shinder identifies features, capabilities, and functionalities that would make smartphones more enterprise-ready. Read more Quick Tip: Speed up menus in Windows 7 If you are still trying to squeeze more speed and performance out of Windows 7, here is a tip that will accelerate the display of menu items. Read more 10 Windows annoyances (that Linux doesn't have) From disappearing resources to cumbersome printing to mysterious application crashes, Jack Wallen has a list of Windows beefs that he says are simply not an issue with Linux. Read more Job searching by the numbers In this blog, we explain why an average network of contacts is inadequate for a job search Read more News from ZDNet   Cisco predicts mobile data traffic explosion: By the numbers Cisco outlined its global mobile data projections through 2015. The upshot: Mobile data traffic will hit an annual run rate of 75 exabytes by 2015. Video will account for most of the data traffic. Read more Intel flaw delays new MacBook Pros until April, maybe June The design flaw discovered in Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset (code named Cougar Point) could delay the new MacBook Pro refresh until summer. At the earliest. Read more Google Music, web-based Android Market tipped to be announced on February 2 Google is hosting a press event tomorrow, and while we'll definitely see some Honeycomb action, the buzz is focused on two other possible announcements. Read more High return rate for Galaxy Tab -- is it tablet remorse? Whether the Samsung Galaxy Tab is selling as fast as we originally thought or not, it is being reported that 16 percent of those sales are resulting in returns for refunds. Read more The Internet's IPv4 Gas Tank is running on empty The Internet's IPv4 gas tank warning light just came on. It's time to pull over to the IPv6 service station. Read more Microsoft: 'We do not copy Google's results' On February 1, Google went public (via SearchEngineLand.com) with claims that Microsoft is copying Google search results with Bing. Microsoft is denying the charge, but has yet to provide... Read more NetMarketShare: Chrome breaks 10%, iOS breaks 2% With another month checked off, it's time to trawl through the NetMarketShare data for January to see who are the winners and who are the losers. Read more Microsoft needs to jump start Windows Phone 7; Here are five suggestions Microsoft has reportedly sold 2 million Windows Phone 7 licenses, but the actual sell-through---consumers who actually purchase these smartphones---remains a mystery. Now NPD Group puts Windows... Read more Latest IE vulnerability: Microsoft's workaround doesn't help those most in need A big security flaw in Microsoft's IE browser has left 900 million users vulnerable and, in response, Microsoft issued a geek-speak advisory and a workaround that will leave non-techies scratching... Read more E-book sales will outpace app revenue by 2013, says Yankee Group E-book sales will surge to $2.7 billion by 2013 with a compound annual growth rate of 72 percent, according to Yankee Group projections. That growth will outpace the mobile appmarket. Read more Verizon slashes pricing on Motorola Droid R2-D2 edition If you still want the Motorola Droid R2-D2 special edition smartphone, here's your chance. Verizon Wireless has slashed the pricing to under $100. Read more Comcast, Time Warner announce deal for 'TV Everywhere' video streaming Comcast has inked a deal with Time Warner to make an "unprecedented amount" of television programming available for streaming from nearly anywhere the Comcast empire touches. Read more Roku adds Al-Jazeera English, USB Media Player channels to line-up Roku has stepped up its program access offerings the additions of Al-Jazeera English and a special USB Media Player channel. Read more Mac drivers for the LG VL600 LTE/4G USB modem arrive Keeping its promise to release Mac drivers for the LG VL600 4G/LTE modem "in February" -- Verizon did just that today with 27 days to spare. Read more Featured multimedia   Top 10 sites banned at work (screenshots) Here are the 10 sites that are named by OpenDNS to be the biggest problems for businesses in 2010 - mostly for cutting back on worker productivity. View on site Dell Streak 7 (photos) Take a closer look at the Dell Streak 7, the first 4G compatible Android tablet available from T-Mobile. View on site TechRepublic's camera phone challenge: Snow and ice We thought winter was the perfect time of year to challenge the TechRepublic community to submit camera phone photos of snow and ice. Take a look at the entries. View on site Must-have car tech features (photos) Have you ever wondered what tech features you should be looking for in your next car? Check out CNET Car Tech's list of must-have features for an idea of what to look for. View on site Slideshow: Manage Windows 7 Notification area icons Change which icons appear in the Windows 7 Notification area and decide how those icons behave when they are display in that area. View on site Today's recommended downloads Businesses Thrive with Google Apps (Google) End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP (TechRepublic) Enable a Converged Network for UC and IP Telephony (Alcatel-Lucent) Achieve Application Continuity through Reliable Network Infrastructure (Alcatel-Lucent) Improve productivity through real-time collaboration and communication (Google)   About this newsletter The Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the technology world. You'll get my top stories, opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner Report TechRepublic bugs and offer suggestions about the 2011 upgrade TR member Tigger_Two created a Google Doc for bugs and/or suggestions about the 2011 upgrade to help facilitate a more coordinated effort between the TR community and TechRepublic staff working behind the scenes. Find out how you can contribute. 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[TechRepublic] Making a good IT hire, increasing your Facebook fan base, free must-have dev tools

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Five tips for hiring a new IT staff member Finding the best person for an IT position requires more than just matching up skills with job requirements. Brien Posey shares some creative -- even unorthodox -- tricks for making a successful hire. Read more Resource of the day Deploying virtual environments quickly and easily As IT environments become more complex, skilled staff spend time on repetitive tasks that can be better managed or automated. Join this webcast on October 26 and learn how to save money by managing complex environments from a single control point. Hottest new tips   Five tips for working with Excel sheet protection Protecting worksheets will help safeguard your design and data, but at the cost of functionality. See how to gain the benefit of protection while still allowing certain types of access. Read more Five simple tips for increasing your Facebook fan base Your Facebook fan page provides a great vehicle for building your business and extending your reach. Here are a few ways you can get more fans on board. Read more Five tips for making GNOME 3 and Ubuntu Unity more useful Both GNOME 3 and Unity offer a unique approach to the desktop experience -- but they'll take some getting used to. Jack Wallen shares some advice for taking advantage of the new features. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Six free development utilities in my toolbox Justin James lists his favorite free development tools and asks his fellow developers to tell the TechRepublic community about their must-have free utilities. Read more Social networking sites: What information will they release about you? Michael Kassner takes a closer look at the kinds of member information released by social networking sites when law enforcement requests it. Concerned? Or is it just the price of online participation? Read more 10 things to look for in a data center Going to the cloud might make a lot of sense for your organization -- but only if you choose a secure, reliable data center that can handle your needs. Erik Eckel runs through 10 essential criteria for data center evaluation. Read more Don't doom a project to meet a deadline In project management, it's sometimes more critical to ensure that you're successful in your launch than it is to meet your original deadline. Read more 10 tips for boosting your career in 2011 From developing cross-functional skills to aligning your contributions with company goals, these tips will help you map out a plan for advancing your career in 2011. Read more 10 fundamental concepts for PowerShell scripting PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks -- but to use it effectively, you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in PowerShell basics to get you started. Read more Create a new partition with this Windows 7 tool Use the Disk Management Tool in Windows 7 to add a partition to a hard disk volume so you can create a new logical drive. Read more Featured multimedia   Top 10 sites banned at work (screenshots) Here are the 10 sites that are named by OpenDNS to be the biggest problems for businesses in 2010 - mostly because they compromise worker productivity. View on site Today's recommended downloads The Top 10 Most Overlooked Benefits of CRM (BNET) Improve productivity through real-time collaboration and communication (Google) Leveraging the Web for Secure Data Processing (Adobe Systems) The Top 5 Strategic Technologies to Grow Your Business (TechRepublic) Deploying virtual environments quickly and easily (IBM) The basics: Design a website wireframe in Photoshop Here is a step-by-step process of creating a website mainframe in Photoshop. 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 Dinosaur Sightings on TechRepublic Computers from the 1970s Computers from 1980-1983 IBM 5251, 4000 Series VAX, Timex Sinclair and more Atari ST

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[TechRepublic] Social networking sites: What information will they release about you?

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Social networking sites: What information will they release about you? Michael Kassner takes a closer look at the kinds of information released by social networking sites about members if requested by law enforcement. Concerned? Or is it just the price of online participation? Read more Resource of the day End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP All organizations are challenged by the rising amount of information that is now tightly woven into everyday business. Learn about promising innovations and trends for the comprehensive command and control your most important asset, information. The difference between secrecy and privacy as security concepts WikiLeaks is not the danger to national security that many people think it is. It is merely the superficial manifestation of the real danger: the naive belief that secrecy is security. Read more What makes cybercrime laws so difficult to enforce Deb Shinder discusses both the difficulty of enforcing cybercrime laws and of tracking down cybercriminals in the first place. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Obtaining network information with netstat Vincent Danen offers some tips for getting the most network information possible from the netstat utility as a root user. Read more Poll: Is the beta Internet Explorer 9 as bad as I think it is? The TechRepublic Windows Blog member poll question of the week: Is the beta Internet Explorer 9 as bad as I think it is? Read more Use a password to secure access to an Excel workbook At the file level, you can password protect an Excel workbook in two ways. You can determine who can get in and who can save changes. Read more Featured multimedia   Top 10 sites banned at work (screenshots) Here are the 10 sites that are named by OpenDNS to be the biggest problems for businesses in 2010 - mostly for cutting back on worker productivity. View on site TechRepublic's camera phone challenge: Snow and ice We thought winter was the perfect time of year to challenge the TechRepublic community to submit camera phone photos of snow and ice. Take a look at the entries. View on site Dinosaur Sightings on TechRepublic Computers from the 1970s Computers from 1980-1983 IBM 5251, 4000 Series VAX, Timex Sinclair and more Atari ST Today's recommended downloads The Top 10 Most Overlooked Benefits of CRM (BNET) Best Practices for Moving to Google Apps (Google) Businesses Thrive with Google Apps (Google) Deploying virtual environments quickly and easily (IBM) End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP (TechRepublic) The basics: Design a website wireframe in Photoshop Here is a step-by-step process of creating a website mainframe in Photoshop.

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