Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages

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	Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages CIOs and senior IT leaders have ascended the ranks of corporate America, and in some cases, they rate among the most highly paid executives at the largest U.S. companies. IT leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Aetna, Gap, FedEx, Home Depot and Walgreens took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2011. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue Why Microsoft spent $1.2B on Yammer Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion 12 free social media tools Samsung Galaxy S III: 8 Key Features and Facts DARPA spends $21.4M for Android mobile device security development Startup Allgress delivers heat maps that display cold risk management facts Supreme Court 'papers please' ruling hits Arizona H-1B workers Motorola's Amazing Wireless Badge WEBCAST: VCE/VMware Demystifying Desktop Virtualization Organizations faced with the growing costs and security concerns created by the quantity and diversity of personal computers and devices need a more secure, cost effective, flexible desktop environment. Now organizations can rapidly deploy a more secure, cost effective and flexible desktop environment. View Now Why Microsoft spent $1.2B on Yammer Microsoft's $1.2 billion move to buy collaboration platform Yammer is a way for the tech giant to get more users in the increasingly important enterprise social collaboration market. Read More Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2 billion Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software, for US$1.2 billion [b] in cash, a deal rumored to be in the works for the past week and a half. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. 12 free social media tools Read More Samsung Galaxy S III: 8 Key Features and Facts Less than a year ago, in September 2011, Samsung launched its Galaxy S II smartphone. Then a few months later in January, it released the popular Galaxy Nexus handheld, followed by the half-phone, half-tablet Note device. In other words, Samsung has been busy. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more. DARPA spends $21.4M for Android mobile device security development The military continues to get ever-more serious about securing mobile smartphones and tablets. The latest example: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Army Research Laboratory awarded a multi-year, $21.4 million contract to security start up Invincea, to lock down Android-based mobile operating system devic Read More Startup Allgress delivers heat maps that display cold risk management facts Startup Allgress made its debut Tuesday with software designed to give chief information security officers (CISOs) a view into the security and risk-compliance status of corporate networks and data resources. Read More Supreme Court 'papers please' ruling hits Arizona H-1B workers Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows Arizona police to check peoples' immigration status means that H-1B workers in the state should have their visa documents available at all times, immigration attorneys say. Read More Motorola's Amazing Wireless Badge I met with Motorola Solutions at Mobile Connect Wednesday last week to hear about a number of new products being announced that day. Retail has always been a strong market for Motorola going back to their acquisition of retail systems leader Symbol Technologies in 2007, which itself had acquired one of the other big retail systems players, Telxon. Both of these firms had industrial-strength tablets... Read More
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