[TechRepublic] 2010's most important tech stories

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Editor's note: As always, I tried to cover the most important stories in tech in 2010 and today's lead is my pick of the important issues of the year. Also, check out the story on Microsoft and Nokia potentially joining forces in mobile and the gallery of the secret Motorola-Google-Verizon tablet. -Jason Sanity check 2010: The most important tech stories of the year Out of all the issues that Tech Sanity Check has covered in 2010, here is Jason Hiner's list of the most important stories of the year. Read more Resource of the day Reduce Database Management Systems Costs Are you overspending on Oracle database management, licensing, and maintenance? Download this white paper to find out. You'll learn key information that will help you reduce costs and get the most out of your company's current assets. More from TechRepublic   Apple steals innovation from the heart of the Linux community Jack Wallen cries "foul" to the idea that Apple invented the "app store." Linux has had an "app for that" years before the mega-hip child of Steve Jobs. Read on and see if you fall in line with Jack's claim that it's time the Linux community stood up for its... Read more Study says computers more harmful to IQ than smoking marijuana A study conducted in 2005 said that use of technology was more harmful to one's IQ than smoking marijuana. And that was before the smartphones revolution! Read more Connect your smartphone to your desktop via software or web service The ability to connect to your desktop from your smartphone can be a lifesaver. RDP, VNC, or web-based services will get the job done, though you need to be aware of some drawbacks. Read more News from ZDNet   AT&T grabs more 4G capacity, buys Qualcomm wireless spectrum for $1.92 billion AT&T will acquire Qualcomm wireless spectrum licenses for $1.925 billion in a move that will give it more capacity for 4G services. Qualcomm had capacity to spare since it's shutting down its Flo TV plans. Read more Nokia eyeing Windows Phone 7 for new devices? Not to worry, Symbian will live on! Russian site Mobile-review.com (via Winrumors.com) claims that Nokia has been in talks with Microsoft over putting WP7 on its devices for the past month following ex-Microsoft employee Stephen Elop's appointment as Nokia CEO. Read more Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program Late last week, with no public announcement, Microsoft quietly retired one cog in its antipiracy machine. Office Genuine Advantage was officially shut down as of Thursday, December 16, and virtually all traces of the once-controversial program have been scrubbed from Microsoft's web site. Read more The FCC's taking another run at net neutrality: good or bad? There's a lot happening this week in the net neutrality argument. Read more NEC to debut dual screen Android tablet at CES 2011 The wait for CES 2011 is much shorter now, and NEC has already announced some of the offerings it will trot out next month - including a dual screen, Android-based Cloud Communicator tablet. Read more Google Maps 5.0 rolls out for Android with 3D and offline mapping Google Maps is a fantastic mobile navigation and mapping solution on Android devices that just got better with 3D and offline support. Read more Oracle CEO Ellison: Fusion apps will give us edge on cloud crowd Oracle's quarter was dominated by talk about Exadata and hardware, but there were a few signs that CEO Larry Ellison was preparing to position his Fusion applications as an alternative to on-demand rivals such as Salesforce.com and Workday. Read more Google TV: Back to the drawing board may be best bet Word is that Google is rethinking its approach to Google TV. That's probably the best move if the company really wants to revolutionize television viewing. Read more The Fourth Amendment doesn't protect Email as much as You might think The good news is that the courts have ruled that email is email is protected from searches without warrants. The bad news is that your email is still open to being looked at by bosses, management, and snoopy email and network administrators. Read more Facebook vs. Twitter: A closer look at the numbers for 2010 [infographic] 40% of all people on Facebook follow a brand, and 51% of those people will actually purchase a product or service from a specific brand they follow. Read more Amazon names HP's Rubinstein to board, brings periodicals to Android Kindle app Amazon has elected Jonathan Rubinstein, head of Hewlett-Packard's Palm unit, to its board of directors. The company is also bringing periodicals to its Kindle Android app. Read more Sam's Club selling 16GB iPhone 4 for $147 with contract Sam's Club has a big last-minute promotion for holiday shoppers. The retailer giant has cut the subsidized price on the iPhone 4 by more than $50. Read more Amazon offering to replace problematic Kindle covers Beware of buying the Amazon-branded Kindle case at the moment. The accessory has been discovered to be very problematic, causing Amazon to start offering replacements and even refunds. Read more Kindle for Android gets a store and periodical support Amazon continues to improve their Kindle clients and today we see that Android owners get a nice update with a Kindle store and support for newspapers and magazines. Read more Featured multimedia   Going back in Time: Person of the Year winners in tech (images) Mark Zuckerberg, Time's Person of the Year, is not the first honoree from the world of technology and science. He's in good company, with a list that includes tech titans, a machine, and even a planet. View on site Motorola Android Honeycomb tablet, Verizon (photos) Take a closer look at rumored photos of Motorola's upcoming 10-inch tablet for Verizon, running Android's Honeycomb OS. View on site RIM BlackBerry Bold 9780 (photos) The RIM BlackBerry Bold 9780 rocks BlackBerry OS 6, but is there anything new about the hardware? Check out CNET's hands-on photo gallery for a look. View on site Kensington PowerBack Bill Detwiler looks at the Kensington PowerBack--an Apple iPad case with built-in battery and kickstand. View on site Great geek reads for snowy days Nicole Bremer Nash offers geeky book recommendations that you may want to add to your holiday shopping list. View on site Today's recommended downloads Which Small Business Endpoint Protection Software Performs Best? (Symantec) Consolidating IT Infrastructure with Data Center Virtualization (TechRepublic) Selling Through a Slump (Oracle) Estimating a Data Center's Electrical Carbon Footprint (American Power Conversion (APC)) Mobility Powers the Next Wave of Growth for UC (Sprint)   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 What should job seekers be doing during the holidays? HR Recruiter Tim Heard shares tips on how to handle your job search during the holiday season. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! 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[TechRepublic] Network Adminstrator galleries: Best of 2010

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Network Adminstrator galleries: Best of 2010 Here are the top five most-viewed image galleries featured in the Network Administrator newsletter this year. Read more Resource of the day Propelling Your Business Through the Economic Crisis Move from fear to value with these CIO strategies for delivering business results faster and better--with less--during the current economic crisis. Additional TechRepublic resources   Consulting services on free server software: Money to be made. The current offering of free software titles creates a great opportunity for side business. IT pro Rick Vanover shows a few ways you can earn money on the side with free software. Read more Connect your smartphone to your desktop via software or web service The ability to connect to your desktop from your smartphone can be a lifesaver. RDP, VNC, or web-based services will get the job done, though you need to be aware of some drawbacks. Read more What can the OpenBSD IPsec backdoor allegations teach us? Recent allegations that the FBI slipped some backdoors into OpenBSD encryption software raise an important question about government involvement in security. Read more 10 year-end tasks for network administrators Out with 2010 and in with 2011. Rick Vanover shares this list of tasks to help keep you organized as you tie up those loose ends before heading into the new year. Read more Quick Tip: Ensure services restart upon failure in Windows 7 There are times that you need to make sure a service restarts when it fails in Windows 7. Jack Wallen shows you how to configure a service to accomplish this task. Read more Digital pack rats will love organizing with EagleFiler Vincent Danen recommends the program EagleFiler for keeping your digital life in order on the Mac. See his tips for using it. Read more Featured multimedia   Great geek reads for snowy days Nicole Bremer Nash offers geeky book recommendations that you may want to add to your holiday shopping list. View on site Admin's Guide to Active Directory   Have extra budget to spend? Then order our Administrator's Guide to Active Directory, 2nd Edition. From planning to implementation to troubleshooting, you'll have the resources, templates, and checklists to meet every Active Directory challenge. Order it today! Today's recommended downloads How Are Midsize Businesses Succeeding where Others Fail? (BNET) Solve Communications Management Challenges (Adobe Systems) Innovation Through End-to-End Unified Networking Solutions (Hewlett-Packard (HP)) Increase innovation with Google Apps (Google) Improve productivity through real-time collaboration and communication (Google) What should job seekers be doing during the holidays? HR Recruiter Tim Heard shares tips on how to handle your job search during the holiday season. 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 Geek gift ideas Download TechRepublic's Geek Gift Guide 2010 Geek Gifts 2010: Call of Duty: Black Ops Geek Gifts 2010: Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics Star Trek collectibles for the ultimate Trekkie The Empire Strikes Back gifts for the ultimate Star Wars fan Featured training courses   CCNA Boot Camp v2.0 ICND1 - Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices 1 VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Understanding Networking Fundamentals SNAF - Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals Browse all training courses Presented by Global Knowledge

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[TechRepublic] Five tips for dealing with high maintenance clients

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Five tips for dealing with high maintenance clients Certain clients -- and you know who they are -- require some special strategies to make the relationship bearable. Jack Wallen offers some survival tips for handling those problematic clients. Read more Resource of the day From Least Privilege to Best Privilege on Your Windows Desktops Users vs. Sales: The battle is waged on Windows desktops, the main entry point into the enterprise network. Examine this age-old struggle with Darren Mar-Elia, Microsoft Group Policy MVP, and achieve an environment of "best privilege." Additional TechRepublic resources   A visit from St. Geek IT consultant Chip Camden offers a techy take on the classic holiday poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Read more When conformance hands you the wrong tool for the job When a client insists on implementing conformance to a standard or regulation, here are four questions you should ask. Otherwise, you might use the wrong tools and waste time. Read more Create and validate deadlines in Microsoft Project 2007 PMs who need to determine whether their team can meet a project's end date should follow these steps for creating and validating the deadline in Microsoft Project 2007. Read more Three ways Macs save money over PCs Erik Eckel lists the three big reasons that he thinks makes Macs more economical than Windows PCs in the long run. Read more 10 ways to keep hard drives from failing With a little proactive care, you can extend hard drive life, squeezing more value from your company's equipment investments, reducing user downtime, and preventing catastrophic loss of data. Read more Featured multimedia   World of Warcraft: Cataclysm screenshots Cataclysm, the third expansion for the highly popular online game World of Warcraft, has hit the stores in time for the holiday season. See what comes with it. View on site Desktop Wallpaper: Northern lights The Winter Solstice is approaching, which means winter, which means cold weather and long nights. And for the kid in all of us it brings up memories of the North Pole. Imagine going to work under the colorful aurora borealis (northern lights). View on site Dinosaur sighting: The days of Big Iron A lot of IT pros got their start in the computer industry surrounded by massive mainframes, flashing lights, punched cards, and the sound of tape drives revving up and spinning down. Here's a look back at some of the equipment of that era. View on site Going back in Time: Person of the Year winners in tech (images) Mark Zuckerberg, Time's Person of the Year, is not the first honoree from the world of technology and science. He's in good company, with a list that includes tech titans, a machine, and even a planet. View on site Project Management Resource Kit   TechRepublic's Project Management Resource Kit features 70+ tips from experienced PMs about Agile PM, how to get the most out of Microsoft Project 2007, and more. Purchase the download today! Today's recommended downloads How to Market and Sell Services with Webinars (Citrix Online) The Role of Open Source in Data Integration (Talend) The ABCs of Cloud Computing (IBM) Explore "What-If" Modeling with IBM Cognos Express (IBM) Deliver the Interactive Customer Experience for Less (Adobe Systems) Perennial favorites   An IT consultant's end of year checklist Hourly income gets stuffed on the holidays 19 books for an IT consultant's library 100 comments to celebrate 100 IT Consultant posts What should job seekers be doing during the holidays? HR Recruiter Tim Heard shares tips on how to handle your job search during the holiday season. 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 Geek gift ideas Download TechRepublic's Geek Gift Guide 2010 Geek Gifts 2010: Call of Duty: Black Ops Geek Gifts 2010: Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics Star Trek collectibles for the ultimate Trekkie The Empire Strikes Back gifts for the ultimate Star Wars fan

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[TechRepublic] Downloads

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Year-end checklist for network administrators With 2010 coming to a close, this is a great time to get things in shape for next year. This checklist will help you stay organized as you tie up loose ends and get ready for 2011. Read more Resource of the day Get Buy-In for Email Archiving Why should you deploy and maintain an email archiving system? For one, archiving can net real cost savings, both directly and indirectly from lowered risk. Learn more concrete reasons to archive electronic content in this white paper. 10 PowerShell commands every Windows admin should know PowerShell combines the speed of the command line with the flexibility of a scripting language, making it a valuable Windows administration tool. Here are a few basic commands you'll want to master. Read more Quick Tip: Ensure services restart upon failure in Windows 7 There are times that you need to make sure a service restarts when it fails in Windows 7. Jack Wallen shows you how to configure a service to accomplish this task. Read more 10 ways to keep hard drives from failing With a little proactive care, you can extend hard drive life, squeezing more value from your company's equipment investments, reducing user downtime, and preventing catastrophic loss of data. Read more Create a local Fedora mirror system and get blazing-fast updates Vincent Danen shows you how to set up a local mirror for Fedora systems that will get you faster updates and conserve bandwidth. Read more 10 things I miss about Big Iron Many IT pros got their start surrounded by massive mainframes, flashing lights, punched cards, and the sound of tape drives revving up and spinning down. Jaime Henriquez looks back at what he liked best about those days. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   The most popular Product Spotlight reviews of 2010 As expected, Product Spotlight reviews on TechRepublic ran the gamut in 2010, with popular reviews ranging from the Apple iPad to the UltraDefrag application. Read more Featured multimedia   The 40 most anticipated games of 2011 (photos) Here are our picks for the 40 most anticipated games in the year 2011. View on site Geek gift ideas Download TechRepublic's Geek Gift Guide 2010 Geek Gifts 2010: Call of Duty: Black Ops Geek Gifts 2010: Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics Star Trek collectibles for the ultimate Trekkie The Empire Strikes Back gifts for the ultimate Star Wars fan Today's recommended downloads Project Success Is Contagious. Catch It! (Jama Software, Inc.) CIO White Paper: Web 2.0 at Work (IBM) Which Small Business Endpoint Protection Software Performs Best? (Symantec) Deliver the Interactive Customer Experience for Less (Adobe Systems) Specifying Power and Cooling for Today's High-Density Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) What should job seekers be doing during the holidays? HR Recruiter Tim Heard shares tips on how to handle your job search during the holiday season. 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

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