Here are five very simple and nearly hands-off ways to recession-proof your life. Lucky for you, between social media and your inbox, you can tweak your incoming doom-and-gloom filter and skip the rest. Anyway you shouldn’t be watching so much TV, it’s bad for you!

In this helpful article, Brenda Coxe shows you how to think about phishing and how to avoid being bait. With so many different scams on the Internet, it can be difficult for the average person to know what is safe and what isn’t. Phishing sites are become more common and are very difficult to detect at a glance.

One day after he was sworn in as President of the United States and in the same week signing executive orders ushering in a new era of government transparency, Barack Obama’s Justice Department quietly filed a motion in federal court to dismiss a long-running lawsuit that sought to force the Bush administration to recover as many as 15 million missing White House emails. The story continues

Social media tools like Twitter and Facebook have transformed the world of public relations. In this important article, PR guru Jamie Adams takes a look at what it all means.

Politics. With the 2008 election year just behind us and all the news from Washington every day, politics is a word that we’re hearing a lot. It was quite common to hear the candidates use the word politics in an accusatory way: "He is playing politics." In our work places, politics is also something of a dirty word. Learning how to manage politics can help you stay sane (and might even save your job).

We’ve got two letters from readers concerned about their email. In the first, Jen Kaye wonders if there’s any way we can find her missing messages. In the second, Lillie Weeams asks why a shared mailbox doesn’t seem to work right.

Today has been an interesting day, and it comes on the heals of a week that’s been an interesting week. There was big news in the battle to save White House email, an ongoing discussion about whether President-elect Obama can keep his precious BlackBerry, and more. The boss doesn’t want to brag, so he won’t tell you that he’s been featured on CNN.com four times in the last week, twice today alone. First, I’ll cover the big news, which is the emergency order to preserve White House email issued by federal court in Washington, D.C. David got the news early this morning, and he broke a detailed story on the CNN site by mid-afternoon.

In this all-new book review shootout, we put three books to the test. Read on to learn how CCNA Security Exam Cram by Eric Stewart, CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide by Brandon James Carroll, and IPv6 Security by Scott Hogg and Eric Vyncke stand up to our editorial review.