The 2009 Salary Survey is in; Microsoft layoff rumors continue their swirl

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Related News: Microsoft layoff rumors continue their swirl The on-again, off-again rumors of layoffs at Microsoft appear to be off again after CNBC reported that the company would not have layoffs ahead of its January earnings report. Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health problems caused by hormone imbalance, letter says Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been suffering from a hormone imbalance that's led to a gradual but steady weight loss for most of the past year. CA to buy data-leak prevention vendor CA Monday announced an agreement to acquire for an undisclosed sum data-leak prevention vendor Orchestria, boosting the software maker's security, privacy and compliance... EMC buys parts of SourceLabs to bolster cloud strategy EMC acquisition of SourceLabs' assets is targeted at the storage vendor's cloud division. Twitter hit with phishing scam As has happened with virtually every other popular Web site over the past decade, it seems that Twitter is being used in a phishing scam. IP call centers will do well despite VoIP slowdown Sales of IP contact centers will grow in 2009, but probably not as dramatically as they did in 2008 due to an expected slowdown in sales of IP telephony gear, according to a... Encryption top IT security initiative in 2009 Encryption seen as biggest IT security initiative in 2009, according to a Forrester Research survey. 2009 will be the year of IP video One of our predictions for 2009 was that the B2B demand for video over IP would grow this year. We'd like to expand on the topic and will look to cover IP video more extensively this year. Cisco invests in Outlook search start-up Xobni Cisco has invested in Xobni, the start-up that makes an Outlook plug-in and was once rumored to be acquired by Microsoft. 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