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IT salaries are up this year, but not by much
If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.
You're paying too much for the cloud
You can't go a month without hearing about some price drop by a major cloud computing provider, with others quickly following suit. Though it seems like a race to the bottom, in fact the cloud providers are starting to make real money.
Public clouds function much like utilities. How much businesses pay for these utilities depends directly on how they consume cloud-based resources such as storage, compute, and applications. Companies that consume cloud services efficiently pay less, and the inefficient ones pay more.
Prepare yourself for high-stakes cyber ransom
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Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.
Your device, your data: Don't let IT screw up your iPhone or iPad
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Fantastic failures: 9 startups that sank in 2014
IT salaries are up this year, but not by much
If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.
You're paying too much for the cloud
You can't go a month without hearing about some price drop by a major cloud computing provider, with others quickly following suit. Though it seems like a race to the bottom, in fact the cloud providers are starting to make real money.
Public clouds function much like utilities. How much businesses pay for these utilities depends directly on how they consume cloud-based resources such as storage, compute, and applications. Companies that consume cloud services efficiently pay less, and the inefficient ones pay more.
Facebook's big problem: Ethical blindness
When you agreed to Facebook's terms and conditions, did you know you were agreeing to become a subject in a psychology experiment?
Facebook's big problem: Ethical blindness
When you agreed to Facebook's terms and conditions, did you know you were agreeing to become a subject in a psychology experiment?
First look: Android L's fresh new face
First look: Android L's fresh new face
Tech traps 101: How to meet deadlines without sabotaging the future
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One enterprise tech trend to rule them all
Recently I was asked what I thought was the most important trend in IT. And it wasn't hard to answer: The shift from proprietary, scale-up systems to commodity, open source, scale-out systems.
Google Dart upgrade zooms in on mobile app dev
Although struggling against JavaScript, Google continues to plow forward with Dart, sprucing up the language with mobile development capabilities.
10 tech support requests you never want to hear from your family
10 tech support requests you never want to hear from your family
