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Quick Tip: Add an Applications folder to the Windows 8 Desktop

April 19, 2013 12:08pm PDT

With the help of a special code, add an applications folder to the Windows 8 Desktop that grants easy access to all programs.

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Screenshots: Create a detailed Battery Report with Windows 8

April 19, 2013 8:58am PDT

A new feature in Windows 8 will produce a detailed report on your system's battery usage.

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10 timesaving strategies for the help desk

April 19, 2013 5:00am PDT

Vague descriptions, off-the-wall requests, and ad hoc 'quick questions' can slow help desk operations to a crawl. Try these tricks to remove obstacles and speed things up.

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Top 10 Mistakes in Data Center Operations: Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centers

April 19, 2013 12:00am PDT

How can you avoid making major mistakes when operating and maintaining your data center(s)? The key lies in the methodology behind your operations and maintenance program. All too often, companies...

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Use LiquidPlanner's checklists to track project tasks and communications

April 18, 2013 1:21pm PDT

LiquidPlanner's latest enhancements are checklists and better collaboration features. By using the checklists, your project team just might be more productive.

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Five Apps for virtualization management

April 18, 2013 12:15pm PDT

Virtualization plays vital role in IT. Here are five virtualization applications that you should consider.

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Quick tip: Command line basics for Amazon Web Services users

April 18, 2013 6:00am PDT

If you want to take advantage of the very lowest prices on Amazon EC2, Linux/UNIX users are in luck. If you're not an expert, you'll want to brush up your command line skills.

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Energy Efficiency in TDMA-Based Next-Generation Passive Optical Access Networks

April 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

Next-generation Passive Optical Network (PON) has been considered in the past few years as a cost-effective broadband access technology. With the ever-increasing power saving concern, energy...

Provided by: Stanford Technology Ventures Program

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10 things you should know about deploying Windows Azure VMs in a hybrid IT environment

April 17, 2013 10:36am PDT

Microsoft's Windows Azure Infrastructure Services is now generally available -- and its Virtual Network technology could be your ticket to deploying a secure hybrid cloud model.

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Company boards? Must try harder - you're just not digital enough

April 17, 2013 7:32am PDT

Despite all the senior-level chatter about the importance of digital-business initiatives, only a tiny minority of firms have put executives on the board who have any digital knowhow.

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Process Firewalls: Protecting Processes During Resource Access

April 17, 2013 12:00am PDT

Processes retrieve a variety of resources from the operating system in order to execute properly, but adversaries have several ways to trick processes into retrieving resources of the adversaries'...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Gold Fields Limited: Gold Mining Firm Deploys Office 365 ProPlus to Reduce Costs, Boost Productivity

April 16, 2013 12:00am PDT

Gold Fields Limited is a South African gold mining firm. Headquartered in Johannesburg, the company owns and operates mines on several continents including Africa, Australia, and South America....

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Automating and Securing Healthcare Information with Cloud-Based Fax Messaging

April 16, 2013 12:00am PDT

Federal guidelines are driving healthcare providers to automate the processing of patient-related information. Using internal fax infrastructures to manage healthcare information is becoming more...

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Compliance in the Corporate World : - How Digital Fax Technology Minimizes Compliance Risks

April 16, 2013 12:00am PDT

The ability to secure, track, and store information is critical to avoiding civil and/or criminal penalties resulting from non-compliance. For years, businesses have relied on fax communications...

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Quick Tip: Make Windows 8 File Explorer launch in Computer view

April 15, 2013 12:28pm PDT

With the right code you can change the default settings of Windows 8 File Explorer.

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BusMonitor: A Hypervisor-Based Solution for Memory Bus Covert Channels

April 14, 2013 12:00am PDT

Researchers continue to find side channels present in cloud infrastructure which threaten Virtual Machine (VM) isolation. Specifically, the memory bus on virtualized x86 systems has been targeted...

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Create a customized navigation system with the Win+X Menu Editor for Windows 8

April 11, 2013 1:17pm PDT

Greg Shultz shows you to create your own customized WinX menu for Windows 8.

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Five small business replacements for QuickBooks

April 11, 2013 12:01pm PDT

Jack Wallen suggests several options that offer a near feature-for-feature comparison to the popular QuickBooks.

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Quick Tip: Take fast screenshots with Windows 8 shortcut

April 10, 2013 11:42am PDT

Capturing and saving a screenshot in Windows 8 can be as simple as a basic keyboard shortcut.

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OK, so stick with Windows XP: But how big a risk do you run?

April 10, 2013 6:00am PDT

Some organisations intend to keep using Windows XP even in the post-apocalyptic world after Microsoft ends support in 12 months. It's a calculated risk and one they should weigh up carefully.

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