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12 IT Certifications That Aid Career Advancement

In today's competitive IT job market having the right certification can help push your resume to the top of the stack or push you ahead of your colleagues when the opportunity for a promotion arises. Once you have decided on your career goals and objectives you can identify the IT Certification which is right for you.

Test Driving Windows 8 RTM

We install and work with Windows 8 to see how the operating system performs in real life.

Things to Try With Google's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Voice Search

Got Jelly Bean, the latest release of Android? Try these 70 Voice Search commands to make your device spring to life.

9 Popular IT Security Practices That Don't Work

The security products and techniques you rely on most aren't keeping you as secure as you think.

How Consumerization Gives Business an Edge

Forward-thinking firms like Kraft didn't wait for employees to bring in consumer tech, but led the effort themselves.

Apple vs Samsung Patent Trial: What's at Stake

Massive Apple-Samsung mobile patent trial starts in US on Monday.

Setting IT User Policies That Work

Trends like enterprise mobility, bring-your-own-device and cloud computing are knocking on IT's doors and CIOs are having a hard time deciding whether to welcome them in or be the rude host and turn them away.

Windows 8 Features That Will Help Businesses

The new OS will be released October 26. Here's how businesses will benefit from upgrading.

3 Things You Need to Know About Gartner Magic Quadrants

Despite heated debate surrounding the Gartner Magic Quadrants, the vendor community and IT leaders both continue to support the research. The Magic Quadrant is a useful tool, but to reap its greatest benefit, you need to use it with the full knowledge of the research process and the analysts behind. For more insight, we turned to Richard Stiennon, who literally wrote the book on the topic.

Microsoft Office 2013: A First Look

The next revision of Office adds touches of Metro without itself being a Metro app.

Top 7 Dilemmas Facing Today's Developers

Platforms, databases, user control -- programming quandaries take hold before the first line of code.

A Look Back Into 25 Years of IBM's PC History

Here's a fond look back at the Personal System/2 series of PCs, which embarrassed IBM in the 1980s but shaped the modern PC you know today.