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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

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

STAMFORD, Conn., November 9, 2011— Worldwide security services spending is on pace to reach $35.1 billion in 2011, up from $31.1 billion in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to total $38.3 billion in 2012, and surpass $49.1 billion in 2015. “The security services market has changed rapidly over the last several

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decisions when applying Microsoft’s November 2011 patches in your organization. So, we’re treated to one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays of the year, with no really big items done out of band either. And the whole thing is ruined by MS11-083, which

  Enterprise users and consumers who have held off buying new PCs recently may come to regret their decision as a hard-drive shortage following floods in Thailand is expected to result in higher prices, according to Gartner.   The market research company on Monday presented its survey of third-quarter PC sales in western Europe, reporting