[TechRepublic] Pros and cons of bring your own device for the workplace

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Pros and cons of bring your own device for the workplace One of the more contentious topics in managing endpoint devices is the issue of users bringing their own device to the workplace. IT pro Rick Vanover discusses some considerations of BYOD for support staff. Read more Resource of the day Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility New technologies and devices are providing ever more mobility options. Companies must decide where to invest to maximize mobility's productivity boost. Listen and quickly learn what trends are driving these mobility initiatives. Additional TechRepublic resources   AutoRun turned off permanently in Windows XP by Microsoft Microsoft has decided to modify the way AutoRun works in all Windows systems to increase security and prevent malware. Does this change satisfy your need for security? Read more Use Hamachi VPN on your Linux clients If you need to set up a VPN on your Linux machine, and you don't want to deal with the hassle of configuring OpenVPN (or passing traffic through a router), there is a solution. Jack Wallen has the details in this tip. Read more vSphere 4.1 Update 1 adds customization support VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1 has been released. vExpert Rick Vanover notes the most significant enhancement in the update is the addition of operating system support. Read more Canonical releases complete component list for Ubuntu and Linux Canonical has released handy links to its full certified components and hardware lists for Ubuntu and Linux. Read more How to share files using the iPad Erik Eckel names his three favorite methods for sharing files among other computers with the iPad. Read more Featured multimedia   Gallery: HP's 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet Fresh from news that its top tablet competitor is releasing shortly, HP takes the wraps off its 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet. View on site Hands-on with the BEST Windows Phone 7 device; the Dell Venue Pro The Dell Venue Pro is the best Windows Phone 7 device available and with a 32GB microSD card mod it becomes even better. The device is unique with a 4.1 inch AMOLED display and portrait QWERTY keyboard. 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 Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.) Best Practices for Moving to Google Apps (Google) Solve the Desktop Management Challenge (Dell, Inc., Intel, Inc. & Citrix Systems) Improve productivity through real-time collaboration and communication (Google) End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP (TechRepublic) $100 LY-706 MID Android tablet teardown gallery Bill Detwiler cracks open the $100 LY-706 MID Android tablet. This low-price tablet has chips from Samsung, Hynix, Wolfson Micro, and VIA. 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 Tech history galleries Computer History Museum opens new exhibit Babbage's Difference Engine and other historic computers Colossus and other vintage computers from The National Museum of Computing Vintage Computer Festival showcases technology from the 1970s and 1980s 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] Downloads

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10 tips for dealing with difficult people Some people are just plain hard to get along with. But you don't have to let them get under your skin. Calvin Sun offers advice for surviving your encounters with vexing customers and colleagues. Read more Resource of the day Address All Your Information Archiving and Retention Needs with IBM's Solution View this webcast to learn about IBM Information Archive, the next-generation information retention solution that addresses all your archiving and information retention needs while reducing costs, managing risk, and dealing with all types of content. Five tips for removing viruses and spyware from client machines IT consultants must regularly remove stubborn, regenerative, and corrupting spyware and viruses from client machines. These pointers will help you return systems to stable operation. Read more Quick Tip: Reclaim used hard drive memory with Disk Cleanup Windows 7 has a built-in utility that will free used hard drive memory, increasing available storage space with a click or two of the mouse. Read more 10 handy PowerShell scripts for Exchange 2010 administrators Save time and effort tackling complex Exchange admin tasks with the help of these ready-made PowerShell scripts. Read more Modify the Windows Explorer Command Bar for all folders Greg Shultz shows you how to modify the Generic registry key to add commands to Windows Explorer's Command Bar for folders that don't appear in any Libraries. Read more 10 key success factors for enterprise video Use of video is escalating in the enterprise, and organizations need to be ready to meet challenges such as platform selection, video file storage, and device compatibility. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Review: Ragic cloud collaboration tool Ragic allows non-programmers to bring the ease-of-use of a spreadsheet to an online application development collaboration. Read more Featured multimedia   Photos: What's new in the iPhone 4 on Verizon The Apple iPhone has finally landed on Verizon. Take a look at the subtle differences between this iPhone 4 and the one that first launched on AT&T last June. View on site Tech history galleries Computer History Museum opens new exhibit Babbage's Difference Engine and other historic computers Colossus and other vintage computers from The National Museum of Computing Vintage Computer Festival showcases technology from the 1970s and 1980s Today's recommended downloads Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.) The Advantages of Intelligent Point-of-Sale Automation (Adobe Systems) Save Money and Increase Collaboration with Google Apps (Google) Leveraging the Web for Secure Data Processing (Adobe Systems) IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network. (IBM) $100 LY-706 MID Android tablet teardown gallery Bill Detwiler cracks open the $100 LY-706 MID Android tablet. This low-price tablet has chips from Samsung, Hynix, Wolfson Micro, and VIA. 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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[TechRepublic] Did you give your client a reason or an excuse?

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Assess whether you gave your client a reason or an excuse Before telling a client that you cannot accomplish a project task, consider whether you're giving them a reason or an excuse. Chip Camden encourages you to take another look to make sure the... Read more Resource of the day End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP All organizations are challenged by the rising amount of information that is now tightly woven into everyday business. Learn about promising innovations and trends for the comprehensive command and control your most important asset, information. Five items all IT consultancies must stock IT consultancies can reduce clients' downtime by having some inventory on hand. Basic desktop computers and routers are just two of the items your consultancy should stock. Read more Advice on finding a good subcontractor If you determine it's time to bring in a subcontractor to help with your projects, read these tips on finding a subcontractor and easing that person into the client relationship. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   When to kill or shelve an IT project Pulling the plug on an IT project is never an ideal outcome, but sometimes it's necessary. These four signs may indicate it's time to end or postpone a project. Read more Five tips for handling stubborn clients When a client asks you to implement a solution that isn't up to your standards, what do you do? Here are a few ways to handle this type of situation. Read more Great ideas trump killer features Before implementing a killer feature for an application, be sure to consider whether it will support your company's killer idea. Justin James offers additional insights about features vs. ideas. Read more Learn Ruby with these 10 books and other resources Finding the best resources when learning any programming language is not always easy. Chad Perrin makes this process easier for experienced and novice programmers interested in learning Ruby. He recommends 10 great Ruby books as well as other resources. Read more Five desktop security tips that are easily overlooked A few small tweaks can add up to a more secure desktop. Jack Wallen shares some simple precautions that will provide a bit more protection. Read more Featured multimedia   Photos: What's new in the iPhone 4 on Verizon The Apple iPhone has finally landed on Verizon. Take a look at the subtle differences between this iPhone 4 and the one that first launched on AT&T last June. View on site How Many Floppy Disks Would It Take To Equal 1 Gigabyte? Have you ever wondered how many floppy disks it would take to equal 1 Gigabyte? View on site Slideshow: Modify Windows Explorer Command Bar for all folders In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to modify the Generic registry key to add commands to the Windows Explorer's Command Bar for all the other folders. 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 Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.) How IBM Can Help You Build Your ITIL Infrastructure (IBM) Address All Your Information Archiving and Retention Needs with IBM's Solution (IBM) Save Money and Increase Collaboration with Google Apps (Google) The Advantages of Intelligent Point-of-Sale Automation (Adobe Systems) $100 LY-706 MID Android tablet teardown gallery Bill Detwiler cracks open the $100 LY-706 MID Android tablet. This low-price tablet has chips from Samsung, Hynix, Wolfson Micro, and VIA. 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 Tech history galleries Computer History Museum opens new exhibit Babbage's Difference Engine and other historic computers Colossus and other vintage computers from The National Museum of Computing Vintage Computer Festival showcases technology from the 1970s and 1980s

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[TechRepublic] Annoucing DIY IT Guy: IT on a shoestring budget

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Annoucing DIY IT Guy: IT on a shoestring budget This new blog will help those IT pros in small and mom-and-pop shops tweak their systems without breaking the bank. Read more Resource of the day Server Virtualization: When Less Is More Many underutilized servers. That's the state of affairs in data centers, and it's a waste of money, space, and resources. You can have fewer servers when each is fully utilized. Learn how the latest virtualization technologies make it possible. More from TechRepublic   10 hot areas of expertise for IT specialists Success in the IT field is increasingly tied to specialization -- but what particular tech niches are most in demand? Deb Shinder runs through the IT specialties that top the list. Read more When to kill or shelve an IT project Pulling the plug on an IT project is never an ideal outcome, but sometimes it's necessary. These four signs may indicate it's time to end or postpone a project. Read more Two Word 2010 security features that increase flexibility Two Word 2010 security features offer protection, flexibility, and peace of mind. One is new to Word 2010, the other is enhanced, but newly situation for convenience. Read more Identify the geeks in a crowd by how they communicate Geeks usually reveal their geekiness when they talk even if they don't reference World of Warcraft, Star Trek, or some other specifically geeky topic because of their speech patterns and conversation habits. Read more News from ZDNet   Nokia and Microsoft announce Windows Phone partnership Ahead of the press event today, Nokia and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance to build a new ecosystem - around Windows Phone. Read more What Nokia's Windows move means for Open Source Many of Nokia's open-source partners aren't happy with its new buddy-buddy friendship with Microsoft, but they plan on making the best of it. Read more Nokia jumps from one burning platform to another with Windows Phone 7 Nokia makes its last strategic mistake and moves to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. Read more What will the Nokia deal mean for Microsoft's other phone-maker partners? What does a multi-partner ecosystem look like when not all participants are deemed equal? We're about to find out in the Windows Phone world. Read more Intel to begin shipping updated Sandy Point chipsets Feb 14th On Monday (February 14th) Intel will begin shipping updated B3 stepping Cougar Point chipsets to fix the Sandy Bridge flaw announced a few weeks ago. Read more Google's two-factor authentication: nice idea, but unwieldy Google's new two-factor authentication scheme is a huge improvement in terms of account security in the public Cloud. But I can't use it for regular day to day use. Read more ViewSonic debuts V350 smartphone, ViewPad 10 Pro tablet Mobile World Congress is barely getting started in Barcelona today, but ViewSonic is already unveiling its new V350 smartphone and a ViewPad 10 Pro tablet. Read more BlackBerry PlayBook will reportedly support Google Android apps Well, this is a bit of a surprise. RIM is reportedly working to ensure that the BlackBerry PlayBook can support some apps from the Google Android platform. Read more First legal shots fired at Google's VP8 codec Google wants to make its VP8 video codec a patent-free standard. The competition just threw down the first big challenge to that strategy. MPEG-LA, lhe group that manages the licensing of patents... Read more Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 rumored to be 10-inch, misses the mark The Galaxy Tab 2 is expected to be an updated version of the Tab running Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, on a bigger slate form with a 10-inch screen. I'm afraid a 10-inch Galaxy Tab is a mistake, as... Read more Rumor: Samsung will unveil Galaxy Tab 2 with Honeycomb at MWC Samsung's first stab at a tablet, the Galaxy Tab, might have had its ups and downs over the last few months, but we could be seeing the successor sooner than we expected.According to Pocket-lint... Read more LG VL600 LTE modem finally gets some Mac love Verizon released a Mac driver for the screaming-fast LG VL600 LTE modem. This means that Mac users now have two 4G modems to choose from, both are faster than my Comcast connection. Read more Two great iPhone 4 upgrades: iWrap and ThinSkin I'm pretty rough on my pocket-sized devices and have to protect them from day one. The first two things that I added to my Verizon iPhone 4 were an iWrap and a ThinSkin. Read more The Future Of... Credit Cards [video] They're a modern-day must. Anyone who's ever forgotten their credit card at home or worse, lost it, knows exactly how crucial that piece of plastic truly is. With rampant fraud and ID theft... Read more Featured multimedia   How Many Floppy Disks Would It Take To Equal 1 Gigabyte? Have you ever wondered how many floppy disks it would take to equal 1 Gigabyte? View on site Slideshow: Modify Windows Explorer Command Bar for all folders In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to modify the Generic registry key to add commands to the Windows Explorer's Command Bar for all the other folders. View on site Gallery: HP's 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet Fresh from news that its top tablet competitor is releasing shortly, HP takes the wraps off its 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet. View on site Thin is in! The LG E2290 (photos) Photos of the thinnest monitor yet, the LG E2290. View on site Today's recommended downloads Drivers and Detractors for Enterprise Mobility (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.) End-to-end Business Visibility with On-demand ERP (TechRepublic) Improve productivity through real-time collaboration and communication (Google) Businesses Thrive with Google Apps (Google) Save Money and Increase Collaboration with Google Apps (Google)   About this newsletter The Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the technology world. You'll get my top stories, opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner Photos: What's new in the iPhone 4 on Verizon The Apple iPhone has finally landed on Verizon. Take a look at the subtle differences between this iPhone 4 and the one that first launched on AT&T last June. 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 Tech history galleries Computer History Museum opens new exhibit Babbage's Difference Engine and other historic computers Colossus and other vintage computers from The National Museum of Computing Vintage Computer Festival showcases technology from the 1970s and 1980s

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