[TechRepublic] Celebrating 20 years of ZDNet, and my first Interent address

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Celebrating 20 years of ZDNet, and my first Interent address ZDNet just turned 20 years old. Learn how it got started, hear about its rivalry and merger with ZDNet, and learn how it's related to the story of my first Internet address. Read more Resource of the day Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software Easily manage, measure, and monitor all your physical, virtual, and cloud assets across platforms, applications, domains, and multiple datacenters. More from TechRepublic   TechRepublic Live 2011 steps into the real world Deb Shinder tells the TR community why they should sign up for TechRepublic Live 2011, which is in Louisville, KY, on June 15-17. Seating is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot today. Read more Some tech pros would sacrifice pay to telecommute A new Dice poll shows that some IT pros value their work surroundings more than the amount of money they make. Read more Consultants are pros, while corporate IT staff are minor leaguers IT consultancy owner Erik Eckel discusses common challenges he has observed corporate IT pros face when trying to transition to consulting. Read more Review: Carbonite offsite data backup and recovery Carbonite is a good option for PCs in homes or small offices that lack central management or storage. Justin James explains in this Product Spotlight. Read more Five reasons new MacBook Pros are business users' best laptop choice Erik Eckel lists his reasons for recommending the Apple MacBook Pros as the best business laptops available. Read more NASA's Kepler Space Telescope searches for habitable planets NASA's Kepler Space Telescope studies stars, scanning the Milky Way galaxy for other planets. Read about some of the Kepler Space Telescope's recent findings, and see photos from Kepler and other space telescopes. Read more News from ZDNet   Dell's 10-inch Windows 7 tablet won't debut until fall Dell recently announced that it would launch a 10-inch tablet to compliment its 5- and 7-inch slates. However, it looks like we'll have to wait a bit. Read more Cisco's Chambers: 'We have lost some of the credibility' Cisco CEO John Chambers said the company has a good strategy, but has lost is way and confused its employees. The upshot is that Cisco plans "a number of targeted moves in the coming weeks." Read more The Commodore 64 is back! Don't panic! It isn't 1982 and that homemade time machine you've been working on hasn't started working. It might not be the 1980s, but that doesn't stop Commodore bringing back and updated... Read more Generation Y: The IT departments' worst nightmare? Some say the Generation Y are social trendsetters. Forrester seems to think otherwise. And, as per usual, I think differently too. Read more Gen Y and IT management: It's not all that complicated Forrester finds that Generation Y has a relatively favorable opinion of business tech. What does that mean for the enterprise 2.0 barbarians at the gate? Read more Malicious download protection coming to Google Chrome Google Chrome has always offered users the Safe Browsing feature that protected them from malicious websites, but now Google is planning to take that further with malicious downloads protection... Read more Cisco rolls out family of Linksys E-Series routers; starts at $59.95 Cisco has unveiled a quintet of new Linksys Wireless-N routers under the E-Series umbrella intended for home entertainment and office spaces. Read more Dell guns for Intel upgrade time-to-market edge Intel launched the latest Xeon server chips, the "Westmere-Ex" versions, and Dell is aiming to hit the gas to garner more server upgrades. Read more Oracle: 40% Sun hardware slide. Thin end of the wedge? How much is Oracle's Sun business under threat? The number give strong clues but is this all we can surmise?. Read more VMware assimilates Mozy backup service VMware, best know for its virtualization software, is taking over Mozy enterprice/consumer data backup service, further cementing the company's cloud aspirations. Read more SugarCRM integrates with IBM/Lotus, Oracle, Amazon, iPad, Android etc SugarCRM debuts new integration with IBM/Lotus, Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Cisco WebMeeting, Citrix Go-to-Meeting, Facebook, Twitter, iPad, Android, Blackberry and 8 new languages Read more Goodbye social media... welcome back mass-media Social media has gone away and become 'social distribution of mass media...' Read more Nook NYT subscribers will also access NYTimes.com for free Not to be outdone by Amazon, Barnes & Noble has announced that Nook owners who subscribe to The New York Times with their e-book readers will also get unlimited access to NYTimes.com. Read more Microsoft hands out Xbox Development Kit with Sidecar attachment Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox Development Kit, and it's also coming with a little helper referred to as the Sidecar. Read more Featured multimedia   Apple MacBook Pro Quad-core i7 teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Apple MacBook Pro. This series notebook sports an Intel Quad-Core Intel i7 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 6490M GPU, 150GB Toshiba SSD, and 4GB of RAM. View on site Screenshots: Give every window in Windows 7 a tabbed user interface In this edition of the Windows Desktop report, Greg Shultz introduces you to WindowTabs and shows you how to configure the application to add a tabbed interface to Windows Explorer. View on site Anaerobic digester turns waste to biogas (photos) Five small family dairy farms in Massachusetts will use manure and food waste to make biogas to consume waste and generate revenue. View on site Images from the Kepler, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer space telescopes This gallery features images from the Kepler Space Telescope, as well as images from other space telescopes -- specifically, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer -- that offer valuable insight into the Kepler research project's objective. View on site Today's recommended downloads Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats (GFI Software) The Need for Profitability and Cost Management (PCM) (Oracle) Shiny New Year with Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Apps for Business (Google)   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the world of technology. You'll get my opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner Five tips for becoming a tech writer If you've been reading tech books and articles for years and thinking, 'I could write stuff like this,' you may be right. Veteran author Katherine Murray shares a few tricks of the tech-writing trade. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight Net admin galleries 10 Sysinternals tools you shouldn't be without 10 more Sysinternals tools to simplify routine Windows admin tasks 12 of the most recommended network monitoring tools Network diagrams highly-rated by IT pros

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[TechRepublic] How fuzzy hashing fights malware

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Fuzzy hashing helps researchers spot morphing malware Anti-malware applications are dependent on malicious software remaining the same, code-wise. So the bad guys just keep changing it. Michael Kassner looks at a possible defense: fuzzy hashing. Read more Resource of the day Social Networking and Security Risks Social networking tools can put your information systems and personal data at risk. Take a look at the risks and learn solutions that can protect you, your personal information, and your company data. Encrypt calls on your Android device with RedPhone Whisper Systems offers call encryption on Android with RedPhone. Chad Perrin describes how it works and where the potential security questions exist. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   20 things IT must do before, during and after a disaster A panel of IT professionals outlines 20 things every IT department should do to prepare for, survive and recover from a disaster. Read more Three modes of data deduplication: How do you decide? All deduplication approaches are not created equal! IT maharajah Rick Vanover provides a rundown of the major approaches to data deduplication. Read more 10 best practices for Windows security Security risks continue to grow for organizations both large and small. Brien Posey offers 10 suggestions for making sure your networks are as well protected as possible. Read more Featured multimedia   A Day at the Hacker Dojo (photos) Road Trip at Home: Hacker spaces are all the rage. In Silicon Valley, the Hacker Dojo has become one of the hottest. View on site Net admin galleries 10 Sysinternals tools you shouldn't be without 10 more Sysinternals tools to simplify routine Windows admin tasks 12 of the most recommended network monitoring tools Network diagrams highly-rated by IT pros Today's recommended downloads Why Customers Love VIPRE Business (GFI Software) Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware (GFI Software) Social Networking and Security Risks (GFI Software) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones Hot, new Android devices hit the market almost every week. To help you sort through them all, here's our list of the 10 best Android smartphones, especially with business users in mind.

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[TechRepublic] Setting a fair consulting fee, becoming a tech writer, marketing your apps

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Five tips for setting a reasonable consulting fee One of the trickier aspects of the consulting business is trying to determine a fee that will attract clients but still keep the wolves from your door. Susan Harkins offers some practical advice. Read more Resource of the day Defend Against Malware without Sacrificing System Performance Today's sophisticated malware attacks require a new approach. Create an anti-malware infrastructure that's easy to manage and keeps both user productivity and system performance at their peak. This white paper will show you how. Hottest new tips   Five tips for becoming a tech writer Have you been reading tech books and articles for years and thinking, 'I could write stuff like this'? You may be right. Veteran author Katherine Murray shares a few tricks of the tech-writing trade. Read more Five marketing tips for application developers If the responsibility of marketing your application is new territory for you, these tips will help you develop the best strategies for pulling in customers. Read more Five tips for making GnuCash work for your business If your budget is tight and you're tired of dealing with crash-prone accounting software, you might want to take GnuCash for a spin. Here are some of the best ways to take advantage of this open source solution. Read more Five tips for recruiting first-rate engineers for your IT consultancy Staffing your consultancy with the sharpest engineers requires an arsenal of effective recruitment strategies. Erik Eckel shares some of his most successful methods for rounding up top talent. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Encrypt calls on your Android device with RedPhone Whisper Systems offers call encryption on Android with RedPhone. Chad Perrin describes how it works and where the potential security questions exist. Read more 20 things IT must do before, during, and after a disaster A panel of IT professionals recently outlined 20 things every IT department should do to prepare for, survive, and recover from an disaster. Read more 10 IT certifications that earn top dollar Bill Detwiler discusses factors that can increase your base salary -- including the 10 most valuable IT certifications. Read more Featured multimedia   Making amazing light art with the Kinect (photos) Artist Audrey Penven has a new gallery exhibit that showcases her images made with infrared photography of light from a Kinect. View on site Today's recommended downloads Social Networking and Security Risks (GFI Software) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Defend Against Malware without Sacrificing System Performance (GFI Software) Why Customers Love VIPRE Business (GFI Software) Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware (GFI Software) Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones Hot, new Android devices hit the market almost every week. To help you sort through them all, here's our list of the 10 best Android smartphones, especially with business users in mind. 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 Net admin galleries 10 Sysinternals tools you shouldn't be without 10 more Sysinternals tools to simplify routine Windows admin tasks 12 of the most recommended network monitoring tools Network diagrams highly-rated by IT pros

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