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By Justin James April 10, 2012, 12:21 PM PDT Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decisions when applying Microsoft’s April 2012 patches in your organization. One nice thing about the April 2012 set of patches is that it seems like the issue where opening files on network shares

By Erik Eckel   Takeaway: The certification landscape changes as swiftly as the technologies you support. Erik Eckel looks at the certs that are currently relevant and valuable to IT pros. When it comes to IT skills and expertise, there are all kinds of “best certification” lists. Pundits are quick to add the safe bets:

By Susan Harkins February 11, 2012, 8:25 AM PST   Takeaway: Outlook is complex enough to confuse your users and create support headaches. These basic concepts will give them a better grasp of how things work.   Training users on Outlook is often as simple as showing them how to download their mail. But some

By Ryan Boudreaux Takeaway: Ryan Boudreaux looks at the state of online privacy policies in light of Google’s and others run-ins with consumers. Does your web develop strategy include tracking technologies?   On Thursday, March 1, 2012, Google updated its privacy policies in a combined effort to allay criticism from several communities, and to consolidate

Source I bare bad news Windows XP users. Come 2014 Microsoft have recently announced that they shall be finally stopping support for the OS all together after a 13 (and a bit) year lifespan. Users are expected to upgrade to a newer system such as the upcoming Windows 8 (no release date as of yet)

Soon, patients will be able to buy smart pills that have tiny ingestible sensors that can help track their medication use. Um, the call is coming from inside the house? Patients not taking their meds as prescribed cost the US $290 billion in increased medical costs. And last week, Silicon Valley’s Proteus Biomedical announced the

By Scott Lowe Takeaway: We may not know exactly what’s going to happen in the tech world this year — but a lot of you have strong opinions about what WON’T be happening. Last week, we put out a Call for Feedback asking you, the loyal TechRepublic community, to tell us what you think are

  Latest Media Tablet Trends Discussed Today at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on the Gold Coast, Australia, 14-17 November 2011 GOLD COAST, Australia, November 15, 2011— Business applications for the iPad and other tablet devices are moving beyond the first wave of personal productivity tools towards manageable and secure enterprise applications that support major business initiatives, according

    Takeaway: The iPad has its limits, but it’s really good at a few basic functions. Here are 20 useful apps that play to the iPad’s strengths. I previously said that the Apple iPad is only good for two things (I later added a third), but it’s really good at those things. With that in

By Susan Harkins Takeaway: Ever had Outlook refuse to offer an email suggestion when you enter a contact name? Learn why, and how to work around this limitation. When you begin an address in the To control, Outlook’s AutoComplete feature will attempt to find the address for you. Some of us depend on this feature