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Editor's note The Tech Sanity Check newsletter will not be delivered between December 23 and January 2, unless there is important breaking news in the technology world. For those of you celebrating a holiday this week, I'd like to wish you a safe and happy holiday. All the best, Jason CNET's Best and worst phones of 2011 Resource of the day How to Balance Performance, Availability, Capacity, Energy in the Data Center Data volumes have kept growing, despite your lack of resources to store and protect it for the longer periods of time that are now required. Explore new technologies that can handle rising amounts of data cost effectively. More from TechRepublic   CSS3 technology in action: Design examples Ryan Boudreaux highlights some beautiful examples of CSS3 design projects by some individuals who are at the forefront in tinkering with the new code possibilities. Read more Geek Trivia: What advertising mishap forced the U.S. military to begin 'tracking' Santa Claus in 1955? What mishandled advertising campaign led to NORAD providing flight-tracking data on Santa Claus for the last 50 years? Read more News from ZDNet   Asus Transformer Prime tablets are on the way, U.S. rep confirms Will the Asus Transformer Prime, arguably the most anticipated Android tablet to date, land in America in time for Christmas 2011? Read more LogMeIn: Now free on iOS The best way to remotely control Macs and Windows systems from the iPad 2 just got better, and free. Read more Oracle top CRM vendor with Salesforce.com No. 2, says IDC Eighteen vendors had 63 percent of the CRM market with 170 vendors splitting the rest of the category. Read more Enterprise IT spending: Blips or worries headed into 2012? Oracle, Accenture and Red Hat saw turbulence in their most recent quarters. It remains to be seen if these companies are seeing an operational blip or an enterprise demand slowdown. Read more Workday interview: Insights from a deep enterprise cloudist Great interview with Workday Co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who discusses cloud, ERP, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite, investing, and other hot topics. Read more Siri 2.0: How to serve me better Siri is a useful utility on the iPhone that performs many tasks for owners, despite the early beta nature of the technology. Here's what I want from Siri 2.0. Read more Featured multimedia   12 of the most influential tech investors of 2011 The year is shaping up to the biggest for VCs deals in a decade--with a ton of activity from well-known startup backers and a new breed of investor. View on site Galaxy Nexus: Google's little Android revolution in photos The Samsung Galaxy Nexus breaks new ground as the first smartphone to run Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." Get a look at the device from every angle and see comparison shots with the Droid Razr and iPhone 4S. Plus, get a quick peek at the software and see a photo from the camera. View on site Cracking Open the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Bill Detwiler cracks open the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Inside the 4G Android smartphone he found hardware from Samsung, VIA Telecom, FCI, and Texas Instruments. View on site Today's recommended downloads Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Live Webcast: The Power Behind Data Mining & Analytics (IBM) How to Balance Performance, Availability, Capacity, Energy in the Data Center (Quantum) Why Your Organization Needs LTO-5 Today (Quantum) Automating the Cloud to Drive ROI (IBM)   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 Connect with TechRepublic 12 of the most influential tech investors of 2011 The year is shaping up to the biggest for VCs deals in a decade--with a ton of activity from well-known startup backers and a new breed of investor. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tablets in the Enterprise Five Apps Software Engineer Smartphones

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