[TechRepublic] You, yourself, and Google: Managing your personal search ranking

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You, yourself, and Google: Managing your personal search ranking Google has released a few tools to help you monitor where and how your name shows up in a search ranking. Kevin Purdy shows you how to edit your Google Profile. Read more Resource of the day AD Provisioning: More Efficient, More Secure, Wouldn't it Be Nice? Managing your active directory would be easier if you didn't have to spend so much time provisioning users. Read this white paper to learn how provisioning users in your active directory can be easier, and even more secure. More from TechRepublic   Use your common sense when it comes to Microsoft's mobile strategy focus Microsoft's lack of product and market focus may be earned, but that doesn't mean they don't have a viable mobile strategy, especially if you apply some common sense. Read more ASUS Eee Pad Transformer tablet is a mixed bag Despite its issues, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is the strongest Android Honeycomb tablet on the market, according to reviewer Donovan Colbert. Read more How Mac OS X Lion will impact businesses using Macs Erik Eckel explains why he is confident that Mac OS X Lion will be beneficial to business users and highlights some of the new features he thinks will have the most impact. Read more 10 reasons why not to accept that promotion Before you accept a promotion, it's important to take a step back and reflect on the pros and cons. This week, John M McKee shares 10 reasons for why you may want to pass on a promotion opportunity. Read more 10 ways to keep PCs cool this summer Guard against hardware failure by following a few easy tips that will help your PC beat the heat. Read more 10 ways the Linux community can fix the mess on the desktop The Linux desktop has become somewhat chaotic, thanks in part to Ubuntu Unity. Jack Wallen offers a list of suggestions he says will put the desktop back on track. Read more News from ZDNet   IT organizations becoming cloud providers: IDC survey New IDC survey finds many IT executives agreeing that corporate IT departments are evolving into that of cloud providers. Read more LulzSec: Doing it more for the money than the lulz? It's clear that Lulzsec is far beyond doing it for the "lulz." At this point, money seems to be a primary focal point as their goals become more ambitious. Read more Google hits one billion visitors per month In a first for any Internet company, Google hit one billion unique visitors in May. Read more The failing of Android as a tablet platform My personal preference for Android aside, I have to be honest and state that Android is failing as a tablet platform compared to the competition. Google has let it happen, and only Amazon can... Read more Five reasons Android can fail I want Android to succeed and grow, but the way things are going, I'm beginning to doubt that it will thrive in the long run. Read more Tablet wars: RIM lowers PlayBook estimates, Amazon readies tablet, iPad rolls on The tablet wars are heating up: RIM is halving sales forecasts of its PlayBook tablet, as Amazon is readying its Android tablet to shake up the tablet segment. Meanwhile Apple keeps selling iPads... Read more Amazon tablets reportedly being prepped: Watch prices fall What's the big deal? Amazon has enough parts to make its tablet competitive with Apple's iPad. The key thread here is price. How cheap can Amazon tablets get? Read more Google rolls out reverse image search: RIP Tineye Did Google just destroy Tineye to claim the throne of supreme reverse image search engine? I think so. Read more Amazon CTO: Cloud computing is defined by its benefits There's a lot of talk that cloud computing is the next era of IT, but Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels argues that the cloud will only be successful depending on the benefits it offers. Read more 2011 iPad Office apps showdown: Who says you can't work on the go? The iPad clearly leads in the tablet space and this year we find even more Office apps available while those from last year are even better and more capable. There is no excuse for not getting... Read more Internet's next evolution: 'a Facebook without Facebook.com' 'Data's got a name, not a location:' Content-Centric Networking may finally free data and applications from underlying plumbing. Read more Google invests another $102 million in wind power Google and Citibank are each contributing $102 million to Terra-Gen Power's Alta Wind Energy Center in California. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive Bill Detwiler cracks open the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive, which can survive being crushed, dropped, and submerged in 30' of water. View on site A look at Final Cut Pro X (screenshots) Apple released the latest version of Final Cut Pro this morning as a digital download. CNET walks you through some of the big new features, and tells you why they're important. View on site The 15 sexiest printers (photos) OK, when you think of printers, you don't usually think sexy tech gadget. Well, here are 15 models that might help change your mind about that. View on site Today's recommended downloads 30 day trial of Foglight Experience Monitor Appliance (Quest Software) 10 Best Practices for Archiving (Quest Software) Help Diverse Platforms Play Well Together (Quest Software) Take a Free "QuestDrive," No Install Required (Quest Software) Putting Business Information to Work (TechRepublic)   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the people, products, and companies 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 Facebook page (click Like) Introducing two new TechRepublic newsletters Google in the Enterprise and App Builder are new TechRepublic newsletters that will launch by the end of June. Go to our subcenter to sign up for (and to learn a little more about) these newsletters. 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[TechRepublic] You, yourself, and Google: Managing your personal search ranking

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You, yourself, and Google: Managing your personal search ranking Google has released a few tools to help you monitor where and how your name shows up in a search ranking. Kevin Purdy shows you how to edit your Google Profile. Read more Resource of the day Four steps to standardizing IT service management Realizing the benefits of IT service management requires more than just software but also consistent adoption of standardized IT processes. Explore a best practice approach to standardization, designed to deliver quick wins and rapid ROI in four steps. Download whitepapers now More from TechRepublic   Use your common sense when it comes to Microsoft's mobile strategy focus Microsoft's lack of product and market focus may be earned, but that doesn't mean they don't have a viable mobile strategy, especially if you apply some common sense. Read more ASUS Eee Pad Transformer tablet is a mixed bag Despite its issues, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is the strongest Android Honeycomb tablet on the market, according to reviewer Donovan Colbert. Read more How Mac OS X Lion will impact businesses using Macs Erik Eckel explains why he is confident that Mac OS X Lion will be beneficial to business users and highlights some of the new features he thinks will have the most impact. Read more 10 reasons why not to accept that promotion Before you accept a promotion, it's important to take a step back and reflect on the pros and cons. This week, John M McKee shares 10 reasons for why you may want to pass on a promotion opportunity. Read more 10 ways to keep PCs cool this summer Guard against hardware failure by following a few easy tips that will help your PC beat the heat. Read more 10 ways the Linux community can fix the mess on the desktop The Linux desktop has become somewhat chaotic, thanks in part to Ubuntu Unity. Jack Wallen offers a list of suggestions he says will put the desktop back on track. Read more News from ZDNet   IT organizations becoming cloud providers: IDC survey New IDC survey finds many IT executives agreeing that corporate IT departments are evolving into that of cloud providers. Read more LulzSec: Doing it more for the money than the lulz? It's clear that Lulzsec is far beyond doing it for the "lulz." At this point, money seems to be a primary focal point as their goals become more ambitious. Read more Google hits one billion visitors per month In a first for any Internet company, Google hit one billion unique visitors in May. Read more The failing of Android as a tablet platform My personal preference for Android aside, I have to be honest and state that Android is failing as a tablet platform compared to the competition. Google has let it happen, and only Amazon can... Read more Five reasons Android can fail I want Android to succeed and grow, but the way things are going, I'm beginning to doubt that it will thrive in the long run. Read more Tablet wars: RIM lowers PlayBook estimates, Amazon readies tablet, iPad rolls on The tablet wars are heating up: RIM is halving sales forecasts of its PlayBook tablet, as Amazon is readying its Android tablet to shake up the tablet segment. Meanwhile Apple keeps selling iPads... Read more Amazon tablets reportedly being prepped: Watch prices fall What's the big deal? Amazon has enough parts to make its tablet competitive with Apple's iPad. The key thread here is price. How cheap can Amazon tablets get? Read more Google rolls out reverse image search: RIP Tineye Did Google just destroy Tineye to claim the throne of supreme reverse image search engine? I think so. Read more Amazon CTO: Cloud computing is defined by its benefits There's a lot of talk that cloud computing is the next era of IT, but Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels argues that the cloud will only be successful depending on the benefits it offers. Read more 2011 iPad Office apps showdown: Who says you can't work on the go? The iPad clearly leads in the tablet space and this year we find even more Office apps available while those from last year are even better and more capable. There is no excuse for not getting... Read more Internet's next evolution: 'a Facebook without Facebook.com' 'Data's got a name, not a location:' Content-Centric Networking may finally free data and applications from underlying plumbing. Read more Google invests another $102 million in wind power Google and Citibank are each contributing $102 million to Terra-Gen Power's Alta Wind Energy Center in California. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive Bill Detwiler cracks open the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive, which can survive being crushed, dropped, and submerged in 30' of water. View on site A look at Final Cut Pro X (screenshots) Apple released the latest version of Final Cut Pro this morning as a digital download. CNET walks you through some of the big new features, and tells you why they're important. View on site The 15 sexiest printers (photos) OK, when you think of printers, you don't usually think sexy tech gadget. Well, here are 15 models that might help change your mind about that. View on site Today's recommended downloads Prepare an ERM classification scheme IBM Introduces More-Efficient x86 Servers Select the right ERM system KPMG, HP simplify HP records management - A Case Study Achieve an effective service catalog. Here's how.   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the people, products, and companies 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 Facebook page (click Like) Introducing two new TechRepublic newsletters Google in the Enterprise and App Builder are new TechRepublic newsletters that will launch by the end of June. Go to our subcenter to sign up for (and to learn a little more about) these newsletters. 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 25 must-read Word tips Five Word tips that could change your life Five tips for making sense out of the Word 2007/2010 style tools Five tips for using Word's Track Changes feature more efficiently Five tips for working beyond Word's page-numbering basics Five tips for working with headers and footers in Word 2010

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Hot Topic Spotlight   In wireless lawsuit fray, Apple snags mobile touchscreen patent Apple snags a U.S. patent related to user interactions with touchscreen displays on mobile devices. It's the latest win in an epic volley of wireless tech lawsuits. READ FULL STORY Microsoft BPOS users complain of new e-mail and dashboard outage Reports began surfacing about a new Microsoft cloud outage on June 22 -- less than a week before the company is slated to turn on its Office 365 hosted service platform. READ FULL STORY Recommended Select the right ERM system Your next step to implementing best-practice enterprise records management. It's essential to clarify what is being managed (distinguish between records and other types of information) before scoping and planning your ERM program. Download whitepaper here. Latest Blog Posts   Wikileaks: How the diplomatic cables were leaked   RIM already slashing PlayBook sales by more than half   Intel launches first Sandy Bridge chips for Ultrabooks   Attention Firefox 4.x users - Firefox 5.0 is your security update   New ranking: 10 biggest U.S. utility-scale solar investors in 2010 Latest TechRepublic   Latest shot fired in Apple patent wars   Harness the power of Subtotal in Excel to count grouped items   How Mac OS X Lion will impact businesses using Macs   Terminal server command line time-saving options   10 ways to keep PCs cool this summer Latest SmartPlanet   Airbus and Europe map jet biofuel goal   Internet branding: prepare for new era of domain names   Gallery: Soar to the Paris Air Show   In Philadelphia, evaluating a one-way transit fare   Fisker, EV Connect 'streamline' car charging infrastructure Featured Photo Gallery   2011 iPad Office Apps Showdown The Apple iPad is a great for having fun and being entertained, but it also functions very well as a mobile work platform. This year we are looking at the 6 best Office apps/suites. VIEW THE GALLERY More photo galleries: Gallery: NASA takes a new, closer look at the moon The 15 sexiest printers (photos) 10 of the coolest gadgets for the beach Videos   Churchill Club: Bringing social networks to big business At a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., executives from Cisco, ARM, and McKinsey Global Institute talk about the role social networking is playing inside the enterprise. WATCH THE VIDEO More videos: Steve Jobs' one more thing: iTunes Match Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils iCloud Google unveils Android@Home	TechRepublic Pro Computer Crime Reporting Checklist IT pros should report computer crimes to the proper authorities -- but which activities are considered crimes and who should you report them to? This easy-to-use checklist describes potential criminal activities and groups them into three categories. 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