10 More Gadgets to Help Improve Productivity | ITBusinessEdge.com

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Click through for 10 gadgets that could help improve your productivity.



Most everyone will agree that gadgets that help improve day-to-day productivity are essential in the fast-paced business world. Last spring, Paul Mah highlighted some must-have peripherals that he considered to be excellent tools for helping workers be more productive. We’ve revisited that list and identified 10 more must-have gadgets you may want to consider adding to your collection.



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Six Tips for Deploying iPads in the Enterprise | ITBusinessEdge.com

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Click through for six tips on integrating iPad devices in the enterprise from 318, Inc., a technology services company focused on heterogeneous Apple/Microsoft/Linux infrastructures in Fortune 2000 enterprises and SMBs.



Challenged by the deployment of Apple iPads in your enterprise? It's not surprising when Gartner estimates that media tablet sales reached 19.5 million units in 2010, driven by sales of the iPad. Media tablets and the iPad will fuel even faster growth in the category of mobile PCs, already 55 percent of industry shipments in 2009 and forecasted to reach 70 percent by 2012, according to Gartner.



As a result, many Fortune 2000 enterprise CIOs and SMB IT directors are caught reacting to the immediate need to integrate Apple iPads and iPhones for mobile executives and sales teams.



Charles Edge, director of technology for 318, Inc., a technology IT consulting and development firm, has authored a new book entitled Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator's Guide, which focuses on securely integrating Apple in the enterprise.



“The difficulty of securely and efficiently deploying Apple in the enterprise is that IT teams in most organizations are more familiar with deploying Microsoft solutions,” said Edge. “Even something as basic as opening a Microsoft Word document stored on a server, changing it on the iPad and saving it back to the server cannot be done out-of-the box. Unfortunately, the timelines for most IT organizations are such that they need to have mass integration done yesterday.”



This slideshow highlights how 318’s team is advising clients who are trying to bring iPads and iPhones into enterprise environment.

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How to create an Android Live virtual machine | TechRepublic Photo Gallery

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Virtual machines are among the best ways to experiment with a new operating system. Now, we can download a specialized version of Android that can run within a virtual machine. In this gallery, I will go through the steps to create the virtual machine. I would be remiss if I didn't send credit to Eric Sloof of NTPRO.NL, who showed this in a recent blog post.



This gallery is based on the Androidx86.org version of the Android operating system. This is not a Google project, but technologists across the board will appreciate the ability to run an Android-like operating systems on other platforms.



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How the stars aligned against Microsoft at CES 2011 | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

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This year’s Consumer Electronics Shows was one of the biggest and most substantive in years as tech companies showed off some legitimately breakthrough products and transmitted a general sense of enthusiasm about the future and the innovations that are coming down the pipeline.



However, one big player that noticeably missed the boat on the big trends and failed to generate much enthusiasm was Microsoft. That’s why I put Microsoft on the losers list in my post on the biggest winners and losers of CES 2011. Some people have questioned that choice, arguing that Microsoft just had a big success with Xbox 360 Kinect and announced Windows 8 for ARM at CES.



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CES 2011: The biggest winners and losers | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

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The Consumer Electronics Show is the Super Bowl of the technology industry. As much as industry analysts and the tech press whine about CES being too big and being a relic of a bygone era, there’s no better place for tech companies to make a big splash that will be remembered throughout the year, and in some cases for years to come.



It’s also the place where tech companies can jockey for a better position in the market by generating more attention for their product line than a competitor’s. Conversely, companies that don’t make a good showing at CES can risk creating an impression that they are falling behind and risk having their products get lost in the crowd.



As such, every CES has its winners and losers. Here is this year’s scoreboard.

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Breakthrough device of CES: Motorola Atrix = Phone + PC | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

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Top 10 Emerging Technology Trends for 2011 | CTO Edge

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Will the Mac App Store keep malware at bay? | Naked Security

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Apple's App Store revolutionized finding and installing applications for mobile devices. Now with the announcement of the Mac App Store will users benefit from the same safeguards against malware infections on their computers?

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Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages | Naked Security

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Sophos protects customers against the W32/Palevo-BB worm, which has been spotted spreading across Facebook with the intention of infecting users' computers. Learn more now.

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Facebook will NOT end on March 15th. Hoax news story spreads like wildfire | Naked Security

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A story is spreading like wildfire across Facebook this weekend, claiming that the world's most popular social network is going to shut down on March 15th. But what's the truth?

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6 Things You Should Never Reveal on Facebook - CBS MoneyWatch.com

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Yes, go ahead and post those update and photos, but be warned: There are a handful of personal details that you should never reveal if you don't want criminals - cyber or otherwise - to rob you blind.

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