Avoiding nightmare clients, sharing mobile device data, optimizing your Windows system

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Five tips for weeding out potentially bad clients Unless you want to get stuck in a relationship with a nightmare client, it's a good idea to do some sleuthing up front. Read more Resource of the day Looking for a solution to curb your organization's rising IT costs? Download complimentary whitepaper from Oracle and learn the key capabilities in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enable IT professionals to successfully deliver more information, with high quality service, and at much lower cost. Hottest new tips   Five tips for sharing data from your mobile device When your users need help moving data from a phone or tablet to a PC, one of these approaches should do the trick. Read more Five tips for maintaining a healthy Windows system A little preventive maintenance can go a long way toward keeping a machine optimized and problem-free. Here are some basic but vital steps to follow. Read more Five tips for working with Office 2010 file properties and tags Keep your Office files organized and easy to find by putting properties and tags to work. Here are some simple ways to take advantage of these features. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   But that's not in my job description What do you do when you're being asked to do more than you signed on for? Read more 10 wacky IT office pranks An office without practical jokes would be a mighty dull place to work. Luckily, legions of IT pranksters have kept things lively over the years. Read more Steve Jobs: 10 historic achievements Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple CEO inspired this retrospective of his most significant and innovative contributions. Read more The five worst Star Trek episodes of all time More than a few of Kirk's and Spock's original voyages were (ahem) less than stellar. We rounded up the bottom five for your reading... pleasure? Read more Five of my favorite Excel worksheet tips If you're not using these worksheet-related tricks, you're working harder than you have to! Susan Harkins shares five of her favorites. Read more Featured multimedia   Five new Facebook privacy tweaks Facebook just launched a new privacy center that offers even more privacy options, and reintroduces some of the older, lesser-known settings. Find out what they are and how to adjust them. View on site Today's recommended downloads Looking for a solution to curb your organization's rising IT costs? KPMG, HP simplify HP records management - A Case Study Detect performance bottlenecks before system deployments or upgrades Prepare an ERM classification scheme Cloud Security Demo (Symantec) Manage your inbox with free tools to snooze your Gmail What certain emails need is a snooze function that works like your alarm clock, just with a bigger time frame and wider eyes. Kevin Purdy introduces you to the tools you need to make it work. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tablets in the Enterprise (launching soon) Google in the Enterprise App Builder 10 Things Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, Tim Cook takes the reins Five ways Apple will never be the same without Jobs as CEO Steve Jobs: 10 historic achievements The Steve Jobs era is over: Reaction and a poll Steve Jobs at Apple: A retrospective (gallery) Steve Jobs retrospective (video) Apple's Steve Jobs: In his own words (video)

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[TechRepublic] Microsoft wants to move cloud computing to the current decade

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Microsoft wants to move cloud computing to the current decade In a marketing video Microsoft compares virtualization-only solutions to leisure suits, lounge lizards, and vans. Read more Resource of the day Detect performance bottlenecks before system deployments or upgrades HP LoadRunner - The de facto standard for application performance testing. Quantify the potential value & business benefits with the Business Value Calculator! More from TechRepublic   Andrew Shen adds a deeper search feature to Google Plus Andrew Shen has written a free Web app called Google Search Plus that adds the ability to search for both Profiles and content to Google Plus. Read more Linux desktop progress: Innovation vs. power-user backlash Jack Wallen has been hearing all the guff GNOME 3 has been getting and has decided it was time to stand up for progress on the Linux desktop. Read on to find out if you agree with him. Read more Quickly transfer business card information into Android contacts with CamCard Jack Wallen recommends CamCard Business Card Reader for busy, on-the-go types who frequently collect business cards. This app easily transfers business card information into your Android contacts. Read more News from ZDNet   Irene hits power, web infrastructure; Cell networks struggling to cope Estimating the damage of Hurricane Irene in the "billions of dollars", Manhattan's power and web connections took a beating, but suburban areas are hit the worst. Read more Samsung announces LTE Galaxy Tab 8.9, LTE Galaxy S II Samsung is showing its commitment to LTE with an LTE-enabled Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab. Read more Microsoft shows off its 'Ribbonized' Windows 8 file-management interface The Microsoft Windows 8 engineering team is sharing yet more information on the file-management app built into the next-generation Windows release. Read more One in six IT projects have 'out of control' budgets Major IT projects are put at risk by low probability but high impact problems, such as show-stoppers, which can put businesses and public sector organisations in jeopardy. Read more Amazon expected to sell 3 to 5 million tablets in Q4 2011 Forrester Research predicts that Amazon's tablet will a huge hit in its first quarter of availability. Read more Google: Don't like real name policy? Don't use Google+ Google chairman Eric Schmidt says that if you don't like the highly controversial real name policy, don't use Google+. Read more Is there another Steve Jobs somewhere? Chris O'Brien, a columnist at San Jose Mercury News, considers a short list of potential candidates to rival Steve Jobs... Read more Google's Schmidt delusional on TV again: 5 ways to end the madness Google Chairman Eric Schmidt remains fascinated by TV. When you dig a hole... Read more Microsoft rolls out open-source Python extension for Visual Studio Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite. Read more Wikileaks 'insurance' file decrypted: Names of informants exposed Names of sources appear in unedited and unredacted cables, released by Wikileaks, putting lives of informants at risk. Read more IBM explores the social, cultural aspects of energy management Approximately 1,000 Iowa households with smart meters will participate in a project that will give the energy information in almost-real-time. Read more Man brags about evading cops on Facebook; gets arrested Did you just manage to evade the cops on your motorcycle? Don't go bragging about it on Facebook, like this guy did. Read more Facebook wants to mimic consoles, feature wider range of games Facebook is looking for ways to offer more types of games on the social network, similar to the wide range found on consoles. Read more Missouri teachers win fight to be Facebook friends with students A Missouri teachers group has been granted a 180-day injunction in its fight against the state's new law that prohibits teachers from being Facebook friends with students. Read more Featured multimedia   How to create custom actions in Microsoft Management Console with TaskPad Views Custom Taskpad Views can streamline many IT processes with very little time investment. Harold Ogden takes you through the steps in this example. View on site Emergency tech for disaster preparation Aside from the obvious indispensables like food, water, pets, and pictures, we've rounded up a list of tech items you may want to include in your emergency kit. The essential techcessories are non-digital, human-powered items like hand-cranked flashlights and radios, but a battery pack for your phone or an may come in handy if you have extra room. Read on! 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Quad-core Windows 8 tablets could come to developers this fall [TechRepublic]

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Quad-core Windows 8 tablets could come to developers this fall A new report suggests that Microsoft is close to having a build of Windows 8 running on quad-core tablet hardware, and it may soon give away units to developers. Read more Resource of the day Looking for a solution to curb your organization's rising IT costs? Download complimentary whitepaper from Oracle and learn the key capabilities in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enable IT professionals to successfully deliver more information, with high quality service, and at much lower cost. More from TechRepublic   NASA announces new Technology Demonstration Missions NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions are the agency's latest efforts to transform the space program and spark new development in innovative technologies. Read more Lodsys targets app developers over patent infringement claims This is a survival guide for app developers who are in the midst of the Lodsys patent war. 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Read more Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is the most stable mobile phone OS Windows Phone 7 may not be flying off the shelves, but in my extensive experience the platform is the most stable and reliable out there. I recommend that you at least give the platform a try... Read more Google index change exposes 43,000 Yale social security numbers Another day, another serious data breach. This time, Yale University left social security numbers on an unsecured server, and complained when Google indexed it. Facepalm. Read more Nielsen: More women own e-readers, more men go for tablets A new survey finds that although women are buying more tablets, they still prefer e-book readers. Read more Apple without Jobs: Winners and losers Yes, Steve Jobs is still Apple's chairman, but as he retires from being Apple's CEO, everything in technology will change. My question for today: "Who will win and who will lose?" 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