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	Tech's highest-paid CEOs, biggest raises and smallest salaries Before the new year rolls in, we're recapping the tech industry's top earners, biggest CEO bonuses, fattest raises, priciest perks and smallest salary earners, calculated from our analysis of 36 tech companies' 2011 proxy statements. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try it free today. In this Issue 6 ways to build SDNs without OpenFlow Will Thanksgiving Day upstage Black Friday for online tech sales? Linksys wins dual-band duel iPhone tops BlackBerry in workplace, study finds Jedi squirrels, Robotic polar bear, Steve Jobs Kid and the week's other geekiest videos Got a spare $8,400? The Microsoft Surface 2.0 is for you Resume Makeover: How to Write an IT Executive Resume Enterprises slow to join voice-recognition surge IT Hall of Fame seeks nominations San Francisco Tech company helps preserve World War II memories How to Find Out What Employees Really Think WHITE PAPER: BMC 5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service. Learn More! 6 ways to build SDNs without OpenFlow Although OpenFlow is stirring up all of the excitement around software defined networking (SDN), you can program a network with standard tools that have been around a while. Here are a few examples. Read More Will Thanksgiving Day upstage Black Friday for online tech sales? Best Buy, Target, Sears, Staples and other major retailers have been releasing their Black Friday ads and circulars for the past week, setting up for what should be a busy shopping day for TVs, laptops, tablets and other electronics. But savvy shoppers who can negotiate time away from the family, turkey and football on Thanksgiving Day itself could also score bargains. Read More Linksys wins dual-band duel Review: Six routers deliver 802.11n connectivity over 2.4 and 5GHz bands Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: mNext Protect, Prepare, Profit ­ Join Us At Enterprise MobileNext Join your peers and IDC thought leaders at Enterprise MobileNext, where speakers from Fortune 500 companies cover what matters most from securing and protecting your organization from common "BYOD" exposures to mobile enabling your sales team and beyond. Register today for your complimentary pass to Enterprise MobileNext, Nov 30-Dec 1, SF, CA Click to continue iPhone tops BlackBerry in workplace, study finds Apple's iPhone has overtaken RIM's BlackBerry devices as the top smartphone in the workplace, according to a new study from enterprise mobility services company iPass. Read More Jedi squirrels, Robotic polar bear, Steve Jobs Kid and the week's other geekiest videos It's hard to beat the combination of animals and bleeding-edge technology, but that's what some of this week's hottest Internet videos have captured. One Star Wars freak entertained himself with the squirrels overrunning his backyard by dropping a tiny light sabre on the grass and letting the squirrels do the rest: Read More Got a spare $8,400? The Microsoft Surface 2.0 is for you What a bargain! Microsoft will be releasing its second version of its touchscreen table,the Microsoft Surface 2.0, for pre-order in 23 countries in 2012. And it has reduced the price to a mere $8,400. When Microsoft first introduced the Surface back in 2007 (the first ones shipped in 2008), the price tag was $10,000. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA ARCserve Protecting Your Virtualized Server Investment Businesses that have virtualized on Hyper-V should consider extending their investment with reliable protection, recovery and availability solutions that work well in both physical and virtual environments. As a certified Microsoft solution, CA ARCserve offers world-class data protection for physical servers as well as Hyper-V virtualized servers. Read Now Resume Makeover: How to Write an IT Executive Resume Henry Cole has held his position as an IT manager with a global life sciences company for nearly eight years. Like all ambitious IT managers, he wants to move up to the executive level. Cole believes he's ready to step into an executive-level IT management position with a large company or into the top IT management spot at a small company based on his accomplishments, positive feedback he's received from his employer, and recognitions with which he's recently been honored. Since there are no opportunities for career growth with his employer, he's looking outside his company, as he has been for the last year and a half. Read More Enterprises slow to join voice-recognition surge Questions remain about whether or when enterprises will start widely deploying voice-recognition technology on mobile devices, partly because internally developed, specialized apps would have to be built to overcome issues like background noise that could corrupt its operation. Read More IT Hall of Fame seeks nominations IT trade group CompTIA is now accepting nominations for its 2012 IT Hall of Fame inductees. Read More San Francisco Tech company helps preserve World War II memories San Francisco Tech company helps preserve World War II memories by visiting veterans and recording oral histories as well as scanning their photos. Read More How to Find Out What Employees Really Think Sentiment analysis software, often used for monitoring customer opinions, can also be used to analyze email and intranets to gauge employee morale. But be forewarned: Employees may see it as Big Brother surveillance. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Geekiest holiday cards Holiday decorations appeared before the last of the Halloween skeletons were even boxed up. An endless loop of seasonal music is already playing in stores. Retail commerce forecasts are piling up. The countdown is on, and it's not too early to start thinking about holiday cards. Here are some clever geeky options for inspiration. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Barnes & Noble blows the lid off Microsoft's Android patent squeeze DOJ says you must be a felon if you clicked a link or opened email Unemployed Romanian hacker accused of breaking into NASA Avaya beefs up switch architecture to compete with Cisco, HP Cisco how-to guides for firewalls, IPv6, contact centers Microsoft: We don't update others' Windows apps Will IT certs get you jobs and raises? Survey says yes Companies worry about security of cloud computing 11 cool robots you may not have heard of Net neutrality: Implementation measured in the details
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