[TechRepublic] Hottest IT specialties, LinkedIn annoyances, e-publishing via Linux tools

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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 Resource of the day Learn the Alternatives to RAC You want the horizontal scaling and load balancing capabilities of RAC, but you don't want to compromise on availability, performance, or cost. Learn about alternatives that work alongside RAC or replace it entirely. The 10 biggest LinkedIn annoyances As useful as LinkedIn can be for promoting your career or business and connecting with other professionals, users have voiced some major peeves. Tim Heard rounded up the top complaints. Read more 10 ways to e-publish with Linux If you're looking for a low-cost way to create, publish, and market an e-book, be sure to check out these Linux tools. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   How do I turn off the Caps Lock key in Windows 7? After seeing our blog post explaining how to disable the Insert key, one member asked for information on how to similarly disable the Caps Lock key. Read more Five management tenets for every CIO It's far easier to keep the people you have than it is to hire new ones. Here are five management tenets that are critically important to staffing success. 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 that it's time to end or postpone a project. Read more Five things you should never say to a client Unless an issue is critical enough to require immediate client input, IT consultants should gather as much information about the problem as possible before presenting a potential solution. Read more Photos through a microscope Olympus BioScapes: Art that lives under the microscope Photomicrography winning images over the years Nikon Small World winning photographs under the microscope for 2010 Nikon Small World's categories of photos through the microscope Today's recommended downloads Optimize Your Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Eaton) The Best Ways to Maximize UPS Availability (Eaton) How IBM Can Help Your Business Be More Resilient (IBM) Dispelling the Vapor Around Cloud Computing (IBM) Implement these Best Practices for Cloud Security (IBM) Desktop Wallpaper gallery: Deep space nebula The mysterious nebula is arguably the most awe-inspiring cosmological phenomena known. The images published by our friends at NASA reveal the vastness of the universe and make for some mesmerizing desktop wallpaper. TechRepublic newsletters   Get Mac tips, product reviews, and smartphones news in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Macs in Business Product Spotlight Smartphones Five Tips

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[TechRepublic] Five time-wasting tasks IT shouldn't be doing anymore

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Five time-wasting tasks IT shouldn't be doing anymore Bill Detwiler explores five tasks that no IT department should be wasting time on in the 21st century. Read more Resource of the day Learn the Alternatives to RAC You want the horizontal scaling and load balancing capabilities of RAC, but you don't want to compromise on availability, performance, or cost. Learn about alternatives that work alongside RAC or replace it entirely. More from TechRepublic   Poll: Are you looking forward to the next generation of CPU-OS combinations? So far on the operating system front, 2011 has been about major changes in the established combinations of CPU and OS. Are you looking forward to dealing with the changes? Read more The 10 biggest LinkedIn annoyances As useful as LinkedIn can be for promoting your career or business and connecting with other professionals, users have voiced some major peeves. Tim Heard rounded up the top complaints. Read more How to select a color scheme for your website Using the Color Scheme Designer tool, Ryan Boudreaux shows you how you can use it to create a well-designed color theme for your website that is easy on the eye. Read more News from ZDNet   Bahrain's death toll grows and its Internet slows Arbor Networks speculates that Bahrain is censoring its Internet as the strife torn nation's death toll climbs. Read more Open Source Obama The U.S. government isn't just using open source, it's creating it, and even the White House has gotten into the act. Read more Motorola Xoom pre-sale 'confirmed' for Feb. 20, Atrix 4G on Feb. 22 (updated) Yesterday, Motorola came clean with the $799 price tag for the 3G/4G Xoom tablet. Today, we might have a pre-sale date. Read more Bogus Android apps lead to malware Security researchers have detected a new trojan horse targeting Android users. Read more Sony unveils 17" and 25" Trimaster EL professional OLED displays Sony is updating its Trimaster EL monitor series with a pair of new OLED displays designed for professionals and critical evaluation application uses. Read more 68 percent of households have broadband More than 68 percent of Americans have high-speed broadband access, according to a government report. However, that percentage fluctuates based on education, race, family and location. Read more IBM Watson's next adventure: Healthcare with Nuance IBM has said its Watson computer would be applied beyond Jeopardy and now is making good on that promise. IBM and Nuance Communications have launched a research program to commercialize Watson for... Read more Mozilla: "Is IE9 a modern browser? NO" Mozilla's technical evangelist Paul Rouget tears into Microsoft, claiming that while Internet Explorer 9 is "definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction," it's still not a modern... Read more Windows 8 tablet sooner than we expect? Windows 8 is supposed to embrace the tablet form better than anything produced to date. Information leaked by Dell implies it will release a Windows 8 tablet in Q1 of 2012. Can that timetable be met? Read more Kno tablet shipments expected to start in two months In other e-reader news, the Kno educational tablet, which has been delayed a few times now, now has an actual expected launch plan. Read more Kobo reasserts independent status amid Borders bankruptcy It would be easy to confuse the Kobo eReader as Borders' official entry in the e-book reader market, but that would be wrong - and Kobo doesn't want you to make that mistake right now. Read more Driver sued for updating Facebook during fatal crash A wrongful death lawsuit is accusing a driver of updating Facebook on her cell phone, after she killed another driver standing outside of his car. Read more Man arrested over Facebook relationship status Changing your relationship status on Facebook isn't always taken lightly. In this case, it resulted in a very heated argument that required the law to sort out. Read more Microsoft puts Facebook into Bing Bar Microsoft's Bing partnership with Facebook sees no bounds: even toolbars can't hide forever. Read more Number of Facebook users in China septuples The number of Facebook users in China has septupled from around 100,000 to 700,000. The social network is still blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Read more Featured multimedia   The Evolution of the Windows Start menu We all use the Windows Start menu every day, but did you know that it wasnât always called the Start menu? View on site Acer smartphones and tablets at MWC (photos) CNET checks out Acer's collection of smartphones and tablets at Mobile World Congress 2011. View on site Samsung's little Android family At Mobile World Congress, CNET checks out the tiny Samsung Galaxy Ace, Gio, Fit, and Mini. View on site Samsung Galaxy Indulge--photos MetroPCS' second 4G-capable phone is also its first 4G smartphone, and an Android Galaxy handset at that. View on site Samsung Galaxy S 4G hands-on Though it wasn't announced at Mobile World Congress, the show offered CNET its first opportunity to handle the Samsung Galaxy S 4G. View on site Samsung Galaxy S Wi-Fi hands-on (photos) Samsung rolls out an iPod Touch competitor at MWC 2011. Check out our hands-on photos of the Galaxy S Wi-Fi here. View on site Desktop Wallpaper: Deep space nebula The mysterious nebula is arguably the most awe-inspiring cosmological phenomena known. The images published by our friends at NASA reveal the vastness of the universe and make for some mesmerizing desktop wallpaper. View on site Today's recommended downloads How IBM Can Help Your Business Be More Resilient (IBM) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) New Storage Options to Tame the Information Explosion (IBM) Dispelling the Vapor Around Cloud Computing (IBM) Ensure High Availability for Critical Systems and Apps (Quest Software)   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 Desktop Wallpaper gallery: Deep space nebula The mysterious nebula is arguably the most awe-inspiring cosmological phenomena known. The images published by our friends at NASA reveal the vastness of the universe and make for some mesmerizing desktop wallpaper. 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[TechRepublic] SL4A, LG Optimus 3D, Verizon iPhone apps

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Try the SL4A scripting environment for your Android device Do you have an Android device, knowledge of a popular scripting language, and a few minutes to kill? If so, then why don't you write an Android app with the Scripting Layer for Android? Read more Hands on with the LG Optimus 3D Resource of the day Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software Easily manage, measure, and monitor all your physical, virtual, and cloud assets across platforms, applications, domains, and multiple datacenters. Apple's subscription plan: Time for an app work stoppage Apple's subscription plan had a bevy of media execs in a tizzy and many were still trying to figure out the new App Store new deal. But these media types were sure Apple's new deal wasn't good. The solution: Walk away en masse. Read more Nokia and Microsoft: Economics, risks of a 2-year transition to Windows Phone 7 The economics for Microsoft and Nokia may work out, but the biggest unknown is whether the phone maker can endure a two-year transition to Windows Phone 7 devices in a mobile world evolving so quickly. Read more Microsoft-Nokia deal: The challenges and opportunities Microsoft and Nokia have joined forces in mobile in a move they are both counting on to get them back in the game. The deal raises some important and nefarious questions. Read more Superphones need super chips Larry Dignan highlights key developments from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and says the mobile processor race is on. Read more Programming news: Reflector, BlackBerry AppWorld 2.1, HTML Working Group Read about IronPython 2.7 Beta 2, Mule iON, Windows Phone tools and tips, BlackBerry tablet simulator, Async examples, and more. Read more 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 Install software from outside the Android Market on your Android phone Even though there are thousands of titles in the Android Market, there's still a lot of great software that isn't available in the Market. Here's how to install a non-Market application on your Android device. Read more Camera phone challenge: Darndest things that geeks' kids do You have from now until Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST to submit camera phone photos of your kids doing the darndest things. We will send the participants of our three favorite submissions some free swag! Read more Featured multimedia   10 must-have apps for Verizon iPhone owners New to the iPhone? Welcome to the party! No doubt you've already stocked up on well-known apps like Angry Birds, Facebook, and Netflix, but those are just the tip of the iceberg. Here are 10 lesser-known but amazingly cool apps--many of them free!--for your shiny new toy. View on site Samsung's Mobile World Congress festivities Samsung showed off two new Android devices at its Mobile World Congress show--its new Galaxy S II flagship smartphone and its Galaxy Tab 10.1. Here's a look at the event. 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 Samsung Galaxy S II hands-on (photos) Curious to see what the next-gen Galaxy S has to offer? Check out CNET's hands-on photo gallery of the Galaxy S II. View on site Hands-on with the AT&T HTC Inspire 4G HTC has been making 4.3 inch display devices for quite some time and the latest model feels great in your hand with an aluminum unibody construction. AT&T is finally getting into the Android game with good devices and $100 for the Inspire 4G is a great price. View on site HTC Desire S hands-on (photos) The Desire S is one of six new HTC phones at Mobile World Congress. CNET takes it on for a closer look. View on site HTC ChaCha, Salsa hands-on (photos) The Facebook phone is real, and there are two. Check out CNET's hands-on photos of the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa. View on site Hands-on with HTC Incredible S (photos) HTC Incredible gets a successor with the new Incredible S. CNET checks out the phone at Mobile World Congress. View on site TechRepublic's camera phone challenge: Guilty pleasures It makes perfect sense that the camera phone challenge that TechRepublic publishes on Valentine's Day -- think chocolates, candy conversation hearts, and other sweets for the sweet -- focuses on what TechRepublic members identify as "guilty pleasures." Take a look at the entries. View on site Today's recommended downloads Save 20% When You Upgrade Your Skills to Windows Server 2008 R2 (New Horizons Computer Learning Centers) Ensure High Availability for Critical Systems and Apps (Quest Software) Learn the Alternatives to RAC (Quest Software) IBM Pulse 2011, The Premier Service Management Event (IBM) The Achilles Heel in Google Apps (Backupify) Verizon iPhone 4 teardown gallery Bill Detwiler cracks open Verizon iPhone 4. Although similar to the AT&T version, this Apple smartphone has some significant differences. 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