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By Justin James February 14, 2012, 1:55 PM PST Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s February 2012 patches in your organization. One unique thing about this month’s Patch Tuesday is the rash of update rollups for the second-level Windows Server products like Home Server

By Jack Wallen February 13, 2012, 8:28 AM PST Takeaway: Jack Wallen walks you through the steps for migrating your Outlook contacts to your Android phone if you’re using IMAP or POP3. If you own an Android device, you probably already know that you can’t sync to Outlook without the help of third-party software. Of

By Marco Fioretti February 7, 2012, 12:20 PM PST Takeaway: Marco Fioretti offers a script that you can use to create backups that don’t exceed a certain file size, making it easier to spread backups across various storage media or services. Backups are a necessity of digital life. The more frequently you make them, the

By Scott Lowe Takeaway: Stress, exhaustion, health problems, poor job performance, apathy — all these can be yours if you commit a few career sins and get burned out.   I’d be willing to bet that there isn’t one of you out there who hasn’t violated some basic work/life principles at least once in your

By Rosemary O’Neill How will your employees react to unlimited vacation time? Depends on how you answer these three questions. The call came in the middle of the day, and our COO was panic-stricken.  Her husband had just fallen off a ladder and shattered his leg.  Months of surgery and recovery lay ahead.  Could she possibly

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 Justin James January 10, 2012, 12:20 PM PST Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s January 2012 patches in your organization. Happy New Year to all! Given the complete lack of out-of-band patches (security or otherwise) and the sparseness of the nonsecurity patches, it

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

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: For the first time in years, PCs grabbed the spotlight at CES 2012. Ultrabooks were everywhere, but was it an innovation win or an innovation failure? Photo credit: James Martin/CNET Among the 30-foot displays of massive TVs and the now endless parade of new smartphones and tablets, it’s easy to forget