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Brian Reinholz

Brian Reinholz (breinholz@windowsitpro.com) is a former editorial web architect for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro, specializing in training and certification.

Email: brian.reinholz@penton.com

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Top Tech Tweets for July

By Reinholz, Brian, 07/22/2011

For many of us (myself included), Twitter has quickly become the "go to" place for insightful and witty tweets about all of the latest in the tech world. I've compiled a number of ...

Confusion and Cost Could Slow 4G Adoption

By Brian Reinholz, 07/14/2011

4G won't be a determining factor in most consumers' next phone purchase, either because they don't see the benefit or they don't want to pay the cost, says a recent study from ...

Are Your Employees Learning What You're Teaching Them?

By Brian Reinholz, 06/24/2011

According to a survey of 3,000 managers by ESI International, most employees use only a portion of the content they learn in training on the job, and most organizations have no ...

Is Mobile Application Management the New Mobile Device Management?

By Brian Reinholz, 06/23/2011

Here's the thesis behind MAM—in today's day and age, many employees are bringing their own smartphones into the Microsoft Exchange Server or other corporate network. In this ...

Detect Spam and Phishing on Facebook with MyPageKeeper

By Brian Reinholz, 06/21/2011

Where's the one place you can throw up mysterious, shortened URLs and know people will unsuspectingly click? Social networks! And Facebook is especially dangerous, since said ...

Top 7 Cities for New IT Jobs

By Brian Reinholz, 06/20/2011

IT staffing firm Modis has released a report on the top seven cities where they're finding a large growth in IT positions. Below is each city and what types of skills are in ...

New Products: SQL Monitor 2.3, SQL doctor 2.0, DBMoto 7.1, and More

By Brian Reinholz, 06/17/2011

Check out the latest products from BeyondTrust, Cofio Software, HiT Software, Idera, Red Gate Software, and TotallySQL.

Is the App Store No Longer a Game Changer?

By Brian Reinholz, 06/13/2011

Regardless of how this affects the market as a whole, it means good things for enterprises. Companies can develop home-grown applications on Android, or standardize across public ...

iPad Administration Using Rove Mobile Admin

By Brian Reinholz, 06/07/2011

Recently, Rove released Mobile Admin 6.1, which offers a native iPad client, meaning that in addition to BlackBerry and Android, IT pros can now easily administer Exchange, Active ...

Use Social Networking to Get Your Next Big Job

By Brian Reinholz, 05/23/2011

People in the tech industry, as a whole, are often not very focused on career development, which offers a real opportunity to those of you who are proactive in this department. ...

TechEd 2011: Left Behind, The Rapture

By Brian Reinholz, 05/18/2011

Last TechEd, several other editors and I were stranded in the office while the rest of the world partied in New Orleans. This year, it's the same scene, only in Atlanta. And you ...

TechEd 2011: Exchange Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) Available Without 3-Week Training

By Brian Reinholz, 05/16/2011

This means that if you're an Exchange expert with more than five years of experience, and you believe you have what it takes to become an MCM, you can take the two exams—the MCM: ...

HomePipe: An Interesting Alternative to Dropbox and SkyDrive

By Brian Reinholz, 05/13/2011

HomePipe essentially works like Dropbox from the end-user side, but it uses your own physical storage (your home computer, your company network, etc.) instead of a third party's ...

How Much Money Do You Waste on Mobile Devices Every Month?

By Brian Reinholz, 05/12/2011

Mobile devices are expensive, but what if you were paying twice as much as you need to for your company voice and data plans?

Dice.com Lets You Tour the Tech Industry's "Best Jobs Ever"

By Brian Reinholz, 05/11/2011

Ever wondered what it'd be like to work in IT or development for a company such as Zappos, Hulu, Facebook, or NASA? Now you can with Dice.com's site Best Job Ever.

New Products: Precise for SQL Server, Find it EZ Professional, Toad Multi-DB Suites, Database Compare

By Brian Reinholz, 05/06/2011

Check out the latest products from Precise, Bit n' Bytes Software, Quest Software, Nob Hill Software, SQL Sentry, and DBSophic.

New and Improved: LabTech 2011, Disk Defrag 3.2, PowerBroker Desktops 5.0, HP t5740e Thin Client, Norton AntiVirus 2012 Beta, and More

By Brian Reinholz, 05/04/2011

Check out the latest products from Auslogics Software, BeyondTrust, Broadcore, Forum Systems, HP, LabTech Software, PacketMotion, and Symantec.

New Android Phones: HTC Thunderbolt, Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Sensation, T-Mobile G2x

By Brian Reinholz, 04/27/2011

It's been a few months since I've provided an update on the latest Android phones, and already there seems to be more new devices than I can count. Below are a few that seem ...

More Options in Mobile Device Management: Telecom Expense Management and Cloud-Based

By Brian Reinholz, 04/25/2011

Mobile device management (MDM) is one of the hottest topics in IT today. There are a number of questions that relate to balancing security, cost, and flexibility for users. ...

Microsoft Increases Certification Testing Prices

By Brian Reinholz, 04/22/2011

Looking to get certified this year? Well, now's the time. Starting July 1, 2011, Microsoft is raising the price of certifications.



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