[TechRepublic] Preview MS SCOM 2012 features: Public beta release

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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012: Easy setup, bundled features The public beta release of System Center Operations Manager 2012 is now available. Microsoft continues to add features that allow more applications and non-Windows devices to be monitored. John Joyner provides a preview. 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. Additional TechRepublic resources   Wit and lethality: Preview of DEFCON 2011 DEFCON 2011 follows close upon the heels of Black Hat this week in Las Vegas. Mark Underwood picks out a few talks and workshops of note from the packed schedule. Read more How to get the most out of Mission Control Wil Limoges focuses on the Mission Control feature in Mac Lion, which combines the power of Expose, Dashboard, and Spaces. Will it help you navigate your Mac more efficiently? Read more Poll: Is it practical to run your business via online subscription services? Microsoft Office 365 is now available and ready to help you run your business, but is it folly to think you can run your business entirely via online subscription services? Read more Get ready for the action at Black Hat 2011 The Black Hat 2011 technical security conference kicks off this week. Get a preview of the presentations on the schedule. Read more i-NVMM: Securing non-volatile memory on the fly Computer memory is a treasure of unencrypted information. Fortunately, power off and it disappears. That's not the case with next-generation memory. Read more Review: Use Laplink PCmover to move from XP to Windows 7 Laplink's PCmover allows you to transfer settings, files, and applications from one machine to another, including moving from Windows XP to Windows 7. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open the Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 Bill Detwiler cracks open the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. Inside this Android tablet, he found hardware from NVidia, Kingston, Elpida, and Broadcom. View on site Today's recommended downloads Prepare an ERM classification scheme KPMG, HP simplify HP records management - A Case Study Looking for a solution to curb your organization's rising IT costs? eBook: Learn more about Dell Workstations here Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Five tips for restoring an unbootable hard drive When you're dealing with a system that won't boot, you need to fall back on some diagnostic skills and recovery strategies. Jack Wallen shares his field-tested approach. 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 Focus on Chromebooks Your questions answered: What Chromebooks can and can't do While IT pros scoff, Google Chromebooks will likely seduce businesses Three things Chromebooks need to fix to win buyers Samsung and Acer Chromebooks: More netbook than notebook 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 criteria for choosing Web service vendors

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Five criteria for choosing Web service vendors These are five things developers should look at when picking a third-party Web service to integrate into their applications. Read more Resource of the day eBook: Learn more about Dell Workstations here Choose your ideal solution from Dell's highest-performing and most scalable systems. Dell? Precision? workstations are specifically designed for professionals in engineering, product design, animation, digital imaging and other graphics-intensive occupations. Learn more about Dell Workstations here. Simplify package management with NuGet NuGet is an open source package management system that makes it easy for you to focus on development rather than managing references. See how simple it is to add a reference or tool with NuGet. Read more Ordering in UNIONed SQL results Developer Justin James passes along a quick SQL coding trick for getting the query results to look just right. Read more Google Labs to shut down: What message does this send? In this programming news roundup, read about ParaSail, the AppCentral Developer Lab, SOASTA's CloudTest Lite, Revolution R Enterprise vs. SAS, and more. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   HTML5: Using sectional elements Ryan Boudreaux takes a look at various sectional elements in the new HTML5 specification and gives examples of how they are meant to be used. Read more Google and OK Go team up in HTML 5 interactive video See some HTML 5 in action in this OK Go music video, created by Google. It's meant to be viewed in the Chrome browser. Read more Quick tip: Debugging and testing Ryan Boudreaux offers some basic tips for troubleshooting and debugging web pages, including some tools that will help you check cross-browser support and other issues. Read more Job openings in Java development: Week of July 25, 2011 If you' re Java developer looking for a job, you may be interested in these openings. Read more The challenges of building a cloud-based app There are many reasons for making your rich app store its data/settings server-side in the cloud. The most compelling reason, in developer Kyle Miller's opinion, is convenience for the end user. Read more A cross-platform loading screen for mobile Java-enabled devices Developer Heshan Perera describes how to use the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit for Java ME to create a simple dialog object that serves as a loading screen. Read more Featured multimedia   5 seriously useful Chrome extensions (photos) There's one major element that sets browsers like Google Chrome apart from Safari and Internet Explorer--add-ons. Check out our top five Chrome extensions for the seriously efficient types. View on site Tweets in space! Astronaut shares photos from space station (photos) Using NASA's Nikon D3S, astronauts post images of newly retired shuttle Atlantis, Earth, and mission spacewalks via Twitter. View on site Today's recommended downloads eBook: Learn more about Dell Workstations here KPMG, HP simplify HP records management - A Case Study Prepare an ERM classification scheme Looking for a solution to curb your organization's rising IT costs? Help Diverse Platforms Play Well Together (Quest Software) Perennial favorites   Confessions of a mediocre programmer Form a learning plan for an HTML5 future Why clean code is more important than efficient code Is speech input/output on smartphones ready for prime time? According to Deb Shinder, voice integration on smartphones is increasingly becoming more advanced, and speech is well on its way to becoming the primary input/output method. Do you think it's ready for prime time? 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 Focus on Chromebooks Your questions answered: What Chromebooks can and can't do While IT pros scoff, Google Chromebooks will likely seduce businesses Three things Chromebooks need to fix to win buyers Samsung and Acer Chromebooks: More netbook than notebook

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[TechRepublic] Securing non-volatile memory on the fly

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i-NVMM: Securing non-volatile memory on the fly Computer memory is a treasure of unencrypted information. Fortunately, power off and it disappears. That's not the case with next-generation memory. 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. Get ready for the action at Black Hat 2011 The Black Hat 2011 technical security conference kicks off this week. Get a preview of the presentations on the schedule. Read more Unpatched servers and other insurgents: Antisec vs. Booz Allen Hamilton Mark Underwood takes a closer look at Antisec's attack on Booz Allen Hamilton. Meanwhile, arrests targeting the so-called hacktivists continue: UK police arrest alleged LulzSec spokesman "Topiary." Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   10 ways to safeguard your college-bound student's computer You protect your corporate systems, but what about that back-to-school laptop you just bought your kid? Here are some things you can do to keep your student safe from cyber dangers. Read more Looking for security and system administrator writers TechRepublic is looking for some writers who can talk about IT security in a from-the-trenches way. If you think that's you, drop us a line! Read more 10 things you still should do to a new PC before you login to Facebook When you get a new PC, one of the first things you want to do is connect it to the Internet. But that is a very bad idea. We list 10 things you need to do to prepare your new PC for the Internet. Read more The top 10 hackers of all time Black hat, white hat, or somewhere in between, hackers have had a huge impact on the evolution of information technology. See if you agree that these 10 hackers belong on this list. Read more Featured multimedia   5 seriously useful Chrome extensions (photos) There's one major element that sets browsers like Google Chrome apart from Safari and Internet Explorer--add-ons. Check out our top five Chrome extensions for the seriously efficient types. View on site Focus on Chromebooks Your questions answered: What Chromebooks can and can't do While IT pros scoff, Google Chromebooks will likely seduce businesses Three things Chromebooks need to fix to win buyers Samsung and Acer Chromebooks: More netbook than notebook Today's recommended downloads Prepare an ERM classification scheme eBook: Learn more about Dell Workstations here Looking for a solution to curb your organization's rising IT costs? KPMG, HP simplify HP records management - A Case Study Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Is speech input/output on smartphones ready for prime time? According to Deb Shinder, voice integration on smartphones is increasingly becoming more advanced, and speech is well on its way to becoming the primary input/output method. Do you think it's ready for prime time?

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[TechRepublic] Why Chromebooks aren't ready to succeed -- yet

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Three things Chromebooks need to fix to win buyers Google's Chromebooks showed some early sales momentum among consumers, but in order to capture business users and consumers in the long term, three things will have to be fixed. Read more Resource of the day LIVE WEBCAST: Top 7 Considerations for Refreshing Server & Storage Infrastructure Watch this webcast to learn more about the seven things to consider when refreshing your server and storage infrastructure. The things you learn now can save you time and money later. More from TechRepublic   Five tips for the best Android experience Android supports all sorts of mobile platform tweakage. Here are five great ideas for capitalizing on Android's flexibility. Read more The challenges of building a cloud-based app There are many reasons for making your rich app store its data/settings server-side in the cloud. The most compelling reason, in developer Kyle Miller's opinion, is convenience for the end user. Read more Five criteria for choosing Web service vendors These are five things developers should look at when picking a third-party Web service to integrate into their applications. Read more 10 small but brilliant things about Google Plus Google+ includes several attention-grabbing items -- like Circles, Google Takeout, and Sparks -- but there are some great subtle features you should know about as well. Read more A new Linux distribution for the security minded The U.S. Department of Defense has released it's own security-enhanced Linux distribution designed to protect remote workers who must access corporate and government networks from insecure locations. Read more Looking for security and system administrator writers TechRepublic is looking for some writers who can talk about IT security in a from-the-trenches way. If you think that's you, drop us a line! Read more News from ZDNet   EFF, Facebook argue over 'real name policies' Facebook wants "anonymity to go away" and the EFF wants a case for pseudonyms. Can either be right, or is each proposal as flawed as the other? Read more Adobe Edge debuts in preview mode as HTML5 design tool Adobe is warming up to HTML5 - so much in fact that its new design platform project, Edge, is touted to work natively with the language. Read more IT, loosen up a bit on that governance Quote of the week:"IT often enforces rigid rules and convoluted governance processes. IT must evolve new governance approaches that empower the business with providing 'guardrails' and... Read more With the iPhone 5 on its way, AT&T moves throttle unlimited data Apple's upcoming phone may have just throttled data transfer speeds for AT&T's top data users. Read more Microsoft Build conference for Windows 8 sells out (in spite of a dearth of details) Microsoft announced plans for its Windows 8 developer conference in mid-September, known as Build, back on June 1. As of August 1, the Build Web site now shows the conference to be sold out. Read more Happy Birthday MS-DOS - 30 years old this week! It might be dead and gone and forgotten, but this week sees Microsoft's DOS (Disk Operating System) turns 30 years old. Read more Roger McNamee: How the 'hypernet' is changing the Internet At the Always On Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee argues that the devices we attach to our belts are changing the fundamental architecture of the Internet. Read more HP TouchPad: Still better than Honeycomb I have been using the HP TouchPad as my main tablet for a month now, and while it may say something more about Honeycomb than the TouchPad, HP's product is better than every Honeycomb tablet I... Read more Report: Data centers ate up less power than thought New research commissioned by The New York Times suggests that data center electricity consumption grew more slowly from 2005 to 2010 than the EPA expected it would. Read more Nokia announces first 1 GHz smartphone, changes naming convention again Nokia announced another Symbian smartphone and changed their naming convention that seems to cause more confusion than the current system. Read more Hayden: 'Digital Blackwater' may be necessary for private sector to fight cyber threats The private sector may need to take up its own arms against cyber threats and not rely solely on the federal government, Gen. Michael Hayden says. Read more Where did all the Mac malware go? Mac Defender made life miserable for Apple and its support technicians for the entire month of May, before fading away in mid-June. The Mac Defender gang is laying low, but I'm convinced they'll... Read more Facebook launches security bug bounty program Facebook has launched a security bug bounty program that rewards security researchers for privately and responsibly informing the company of website vulnerabilities. Read more It's official -- Logitech drops price of Google TV-powered Revue set-top box to $99.99 Logitech dropped a bombshell last week when it said that its Google TV-powered Revue set-top box was not performing well, which is a bit of an understatement. Sales were so bad that the company's... Read more Featured multimedia   5 seriously useful Chrome extensions (photos) There's one major element that sets browsers like Google Chrome apart from Safari and Internet Explorer--add-ons. Check out our top five Chrome extensions for the seriously efficient types. View on site Slideshow: Create new Libraries in Windows 7 and increase productivity In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to create your own Libraries in Windows 7 and gives you some tips on how you can use this knowledge to personalize your Windows 7 experience. View on site Roger McNamee: The "Beyond Social" talk At the Always On Innovation Summit, investor Roger McNamee spelled out how mobile wins -- and Google loses. View on site Today's recommended downloads LIVE WEBCAST: Top 7 Considerations for Refreshing Server & Storage Infrastructure (TechRepublic) Storage Solutions Insight (IBM) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Technology Report: Energy-Efficient Cooling for Data Centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Help Diverse Platforms Play Well Together (Quest Software)   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) A study shows that almost 20% of companies use Google Apps Almost 1 out of 5 companies have deployed Google Apps in some form according to a study conducted by White Stratus. Susan Cline explores the study for additional insights. 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