[TechRepublic] Has Microsoft lost its evil corporation status?

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Poll: Has Microsoft lost its evil corporation status to Google and Apple? In the past, Microsoft has often been dubbed an evil corporation, but has Microsoft lost its evil corporation status to Google and Apple? Read more Resource of the day Gain Control of your Infrastructure Discover how today's infrastructure management software packages integrate with virtualization platforms, enterprise management systems, and even building management systems for holistic management of the entire data center ecosystem. More from TechRepublic   Facebook and Twitter: Treat them like your kids Just as parents need to treat their various kids differently, but fairly, so do professionals need to deal with Twitter and Facebook using a separate but equal approach. Here are some suggestions. Read more TR Community scoreboard for April 29, 2011 - The 3D gimmick In this weekly recap post, you'll get a quick look at the top discussions and members on the TechRepublic forums. Read more News from ZDNet   Amazon Web Services apologizes, promises better communication, transparency Amazon Web Services provided its post-mortem on its outage that stretched on for more than a day. While the apology and recap of events is notable, the biggest takeaway is that Amazon promises to... Read more RIM talks itself into a BlackBerry corner, leaves no room for error Listening to Research in Motion's earnings warning conference call made me wonder if co-CEO Jim Balsillie was talking himself out of a job. Read more Apple more profitable than Microsoft Throughout my life I always saw Microsoft as the ominous overlord of personal computers. Windows was entrenched in every company and by association most users used it as home as well. Apple was... Read more Google has failed the Honeycomb tablet You'd think Google would be doing everything it could to get tablets going powered by Honeycomb, but in my view it is failing in a very significant way. Read more iPhone U.S. sales jump from 19% to 28% in Q1 2011 The NPD Group notes that iPhone sales jumped from 19 percent in Q4 2010 to 28 percent in Q1 2011. A big part of Apple's 9 point jump is attributed to sales of the Verizon iPhone. Read more Microsoft tool aims to help developers migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone Microsoft released a developer tool on April 29 that is aimed at helping iPhone developers port their applications more easily to Windows Phones. Read more Attachmate reveals Novell, SUSE, & Linux Plans In an interview, Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn discusses his plans for Novell, SUSE and Linux. Read more Component shortage to hit tablet makers The expected flood of tablets to compete with the iPad will be impacted by a major component shortage that will impede the ability to produce the devices. Read more Featured multimedia   How Google secures its data centers (photos) Google has opened the doors to one of its data centers to show how it protects customer data View on site NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour's final flight (photos) A look back at NASA history as Endeavour prepares for its final flight. View on site Today's recommended downloads Stop Wasting Electricity in the Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Get Access to the Resources, Tools, and Community You Need (IBM)   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 IT resume: List accomplishments, not responsibilities You can list your job responsibilities on your resume but that doesn't speak to whether you did them well. 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 Five of the best Android smartphones HTC ThunderBolt Motorola Atrix Samsung Galaxy S 4G HTC Inspire Google Nexus S Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones

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[TechRepublic] Scan and clean invalid registry entries

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System Speed Booster 2.8.5.2 (Windows) System Speed Booster offers a number of functions to scan your registry and return the result with corrupt, harmful registry entries, files, and problems, which you can fix by a click of the Cure button on the neat and easy-to-use interface. Read more Resource of the day Gain Control of your Infrastructure Discover how today's infrastructure management software packages integrate with virtualization platforms, enterprise management systems, and even building management systems for holistic management of the entire data center ecosystem. New software downloads   BitNami Joomla Stack 1.6.3-0 (Windows) Joomla! is an open source Content Management System with a growing and active community of more than 400,000 users. Read more Acebyte Utilities Free 1.0.0.1 (Windows) Acebyte Utilities Free is powerful and easy-to-use free software. It optimizes your computer and fixes computer errors such as slow computer operation, unknown error messages, deadlock errors, computer freezes and more. Read more Hyena (64-bit) 8.5D (Windows) Hyena is designed to simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. Read more GSA Email Verifier 2.20 (Windows) GSA Email Verifier verifies e-mail addresses from mailing lists, Microsoft Outlook contacts, Windows address book, and a lot of other formats to determine if they are still valid. Read more AutoRunnerU 1.3.9 (Windows) Autostart of any files and portable software, once a USB flash drive or hard disk to the computer will connected. Read more Cloud Drive Network Accelerator 1.2.4.74 (Windows) An optional component, cloud drive network accelerator, improves the performance and availability of your data. The network accelerator provides a local private cloud that compliments the cloud storage provider. Read more TimeCard Standard 3.7.463 (Windows) TimeCard Standard tracks employee time and attendance information and records and calculates regular and overtime hours worked. It also records hours employees were not at work, by category. Read more A4Desk 6.67 (Windows) A4Desk Flash Site Builder is a template-based WYSIWYG flash site builder, for developing Flash-menu headers and Flash-based Web sites without the need for coding. Read more AppleXsoft File Recovery 3.3.0.67 (Windows) AppleXsoft File Recovery is the easiest and reliable do-it-yourself file undelete solution for deleted files recovery. Read more Radiator 4.8 (Mac) Radiator RADIUS server is flexible, extensible, and authenticates from a huge range of auth methods, including Wireless, TLS, TTLS, PEAP, LEAP, FAST, SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, and more. Read more Little Snitch 2.3.6 (Mac) Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. Read more OmniPlan 2.0b (Mac) With OmniPlan, you can create logical, manageable project plans with Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths. Read more Disclaimer: CBS Interactive Inc. is not responsible for the content of the publisher's descriptions or user reviews on this site. We encourage you to determine whether this product or your intended use is legal. We do not encourage or condone the use of any software in violation of applicable laws. CBS Interactive Inc. does not sell, resell, or license any of the products listed on the site. We cannot be held liable for issues that arise from the download or use of these products. Incorrectly editing the Windows Registry can cause serious problems requiring the reinstallation of your operating system and may lead to the loss of data. TechRepublic does not and will not support problems that arise from editing your registry. Additional TechRepublic resources   Product Spotlight: Backup application review roundup Over the past several months, TechRepublic has reviewed several backup applications, but which backup solution do you use and recommend? Read more 10 things you should know about deploying Office 365 If you're gearing up for Office 365, you'll want to be prepared for some of the trickier aspects of deployment. Brien Posey looks at some of the requirements you should be aware of. Read more Featured multimedia   Windows 8 'Milestone 2' build 7955 I'm going to have a lot more to say about the leaked Windows 8 build 7955 'Milestone 2' in a future post, but satisfy those of you craving for information, here are a few screenshots of the first-run process and the desktop. View on site Gallery: 20 Twitter apps for business Silicon.com has rounded up 20 handy tools that can help business users get more from Twittering. View on site Top 10 PlayBook apps after one week on the market The RIM BlackBerry PlayBook has been out for one week and there are now over 1,700 apps in the BlackBerry App World software store. While many of the big names are still missing there are plenty of apps to keep you occupied. View on site Today's recommended downloads Cooling strategies for high-density racks and blade servers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Free White Paper: Establishing a Data Center Floor Plan That Works (American Power Conversion (APC)) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Strategies for deploying blade servers in existing data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Tech Report: Guidelines for Specifying Data Center Criticality/Tier Levels (American Power Conversion (APC)) Microsoft's Windows InTune: This could be big John Joyner offers a detailed look at Windows Intune, a cloud-based PC management product that could be a big hit for SMBs that need help with managing updates and anti-malware protection. 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 Five of the best Android smartphones HTC ThunderBolt Motorola Atrix Samsung Galaxy S 4G HTC Inspire Google Nexus S Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones

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[TechRepublic] NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour's final flight

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NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour's final flight (photos) Resource of the day Is Your Data Center the Right Temperature? A popular hypothesis suggests that energy demands decrease as server inlet temperatures increase. This paper tests that hypothesis and applies the data to a variety of cooling architectures. Read this paper to find out more. Additional TechRepublic resources   Mobile apps for getting and staying fit Here are some fitness mobile apps that TechRepublic contributor Deb Shinder finds useful. Share your fitness app recommendations in the discussion. Read more Geeky spring science experiments Nicole Bremer Nash describes five science experiments that would be fun for the entire family. Geekend readers, share your science experiment suggestions in the discussion. Read more Big Brother is YOU watching In this guest post by TR member Todd Fluhr, he argues that George Orwell's vision of 1984 is already here. Todd believes that we are Big Brother, and we've given away freely what no government in the history of mankind has dared hope to take so completely. Do you agree? Read more Finding uses for the iPad 2: A skeptic gives it another shot Vincent Danen once pronounced the iPad a "giant iPod" and passed on the original device; however, caving to pressure on the iPad 2, he revises his opinion on its usefulness. Read more Sony Tablet S2 revives the idea of dual-screen productivity With all of the Android tablets starting to look alike, Sony is taking a different spin. In fact, Sony's S2 could revive some of the cool concepts introduced by the Microsoft Courier and OLPC XO-2. Read more Build a Droid 2 tablet, and people will buy TR member dcolbert wants to buy an Android tablet, but he's holding out for a device that meets his requirements. He thinks a giant Droid 2 would be a hot selling tablet. Do you agree? Read more Featured multimedia   WISE peers deep into space (photos) The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, which kicked off in 2009, has sent back some impressive photos of faraway places. View on site Marking 10 years of space tourism (images) On April 28, 2001, engineer Dennis Tito lifted off into space aboard a Soyuz FG rocket, becoming the first private space tourist in history. View on site NASA's wondrous views of Earth To celebrate Earth Day, NASA released dozens of its best images of the planet. Here are some of the most beautiful. View on site Hulu Plus on Xbox Live (photos) Hulu Plus debuts Friday April 29 on Xbox Live and will be free for an entire week to all Xbox Live subscribers. View on site Intel's Annual Tech Innovation Event Intel held its annual Tech Innovation Event in New York City on Wednesday, filled with tons of exciting and innovative products ranging from digital touch screens for in-store shopping to robots that could act as personal assistants. Let's take a look. View on site Amazon's $23 million book - algorithms gone wild UC Berkeley evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen uncovered a robot price war between two Amazon booksellers that got out of control. View on site Today's recommended downloads Effectively Balancing Speed, Quality, and Cost Metrics (Citrix Online) Preventive maintenance strategy for data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Perennial favorites   NASA's space shuttle Discovery takes last flight My trip to see the final Discovery space shuttle launch NASA spacecraft and aircraft in flight Microsoft's Windows InTune: This could be big John Joyner offers a detailed look at Windows Intune, a cloud-based PC management product that could be a big hit for SMBs that need help with managing updates and anti-malware protection. 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 Five of the best Android smartphones HTC ThunderBolt Motorola Atrix Samsung Galaxy S 4G HTC Inspire Google Nexus S Leaderboard 2011: The 10 best Android smartphones

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