TechRepublic's 2011 Geek Gift Guide: 12 items for your shopping list

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TechRepublic's 2011 Geek Gift Guide: 12 items for your holiday shopping list Resource of the day Optimize Business Service and Application Performance In order to optimize your business services and application performance you'll need to re-evaluate your IT network. Check out this white paper to discover the steps you'll need to take to make your network the best it's ever been. More from TechRepublic   The 20 most useful Android smartphone apps of 2011 Jason Hiner provides his list of the top 20 tried-and-true Android smartphone apps that are worth your time to download. Read more Readying Windows Azure to supplement Office (365/2010) Ian Hardenburgh offers an overview of the Windows Azure platform and the benefits of leveraging Microsoft's data center to host applications and store data. Read more Samsung Stratosphere: Average Android phone with a better than average keyboard Jack Wallen lists the Samsung Stratosphere's pros and cons to help you decide whether the Android device might be the right smartphone for you. Read more Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet teardown: Upgraded, improved Nook Color The Nook Tablet is nearly identical to the Nook Color, both inside and out. This Android tablet also shares hardware with its chief rival--the Kindle Fire. Read more News from ZDNet   Roundup of online only Black Friday sales From CompUSA, MacMall to the Sony Style Store, expand your Black Friday gadget shopping spree to these online storefronts. Read more Apple's Black Friday sales prices Meager discounts as usual. Read more Beware the Black Friday iTunes malware scam It's not just bargain hunters taking advantage of Black Friday! Read more Hotels that put style ahead of usability or common sense Starwood Hotel's aloft and Hyatt's Hyatt Place were very disappointing. An off topic musing on new hotel concepts. Read more UK cyber-security strategy: Spy agency to share secret technology with private industry The UK government is to shortly announce this coming year's cyber-security strategy, including giving private industry access to government 'state secret' technologies. Read more Facebook calling out to mobile developers in Asia Facebook is calling out for mobile developers in Asia in a bid to establish a better mobile and HTML5 market. Read more 51% of ecommerce site visitors are logged in to Facebook 50.8 percent of customers are still logged in to Facebook while visiting ecommerce websites, according to a recent Social Labs study. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open: Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Bill Detwiler cracks open the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. Inside this Android-based tablet, he found hardware from Texas Instruments, SanDisk, and Hynix. View on site Pixar's beautiful pre-film imagery In "The Art of Pixar," hundreds of colorscripts and concept images give us a glimpse of the terrific artistry that went into the making of the hit studio's many blockbuster films. View on site Today's recommended downloads Live Rally Events: Aligning Execution and Business Strategy (Rally Software Development) A Back Up for Your Back Up (IBM) Sales Performance Management Evolution (Varicent) The CDW Virtualization Assessment (CDW & VMware) VMware Solutions for Small and Midsize Business (CDW & VMware)   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the products, people, and ideas that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief For real-time updates on the latest tech stories, follow: My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner My Google+ feed: +Jason Hiner TechRepublic is looking for tech writers TechRepublic is expanding its blog network again and is looking for IT pros who like to write about what they do. Popular TechRepublic galleries Jason Hiner's 10 best Android smartphones Jason Hiner's 10 best tablets of 2011 A gallery of goofy error messages NASA images: Desktop wallpaper from outer space Dinosaur Sightings: Windows splash screens from 1.01 to 7

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