Monday, October 29, 2012

IT budgets up, but salary cuts still a concern

  IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips | Windows Store has enough apps to prevent Windows RT flop, say analysts
 
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IT budgets up, but salary cuts still a concern: study
Companies are still looking for ways for IT to reduce costs, still trying to increase employee productivity, and still cautious about raising IT salaries, according to the latest survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). Read More


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IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips
IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. Read More

Windows Store has enough apps to prevent Windows RT flop, say analysts
The apps available for Microsoft's new Windows operating systems are good enough to entice early buyers of tablets and other touch devices, analysts said. Read More

Hurricane Sandy shuts down Google's Android event
Sorry, Android fans, looks like you'll have to wait a little longer to hear more about the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10. Google has cancelled its Monday morning event in New York City because of safety concerns related to Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to hit the island in the next few days. Read More


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VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits
VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report.

Campaign 2012: Mining for voters
Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective when it comes to winning over voters and raising money. Read More

ORNL boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan, which the lab hopes will give the U.S. an edge over China and Japan in the race to build the world's fastest computers. Read More

Startup claims it saw early signs of Amazon's cloud outage
Almost two hours before Amazon Web Services publicly acknowledged an outage that brought down websites such as Reddit, Imgur and Heroku, application monitoring startup Boundary claims it started noticing the problem. Read More


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10 Windows 8 apps you should download first
Microsoft does a pretty decent job of covering your basic computing needs with apps like Messaging, Mail, SkyDrive and Skype, but there are a few excellent third-party apps you should download post-haste. Read More

Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs
Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. Read More

Ernst & Young's IT security survey shows struggle to control cloud computing, social media and mobile risks
Many CIOS and chief information security officers are struggling to adapt security practices to a changing environment that includes cloud computing, social media and tablets, according to a survey of 1,850 such IT pros. Read More

Critical flaw found in software used by many industrial control systems
CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for authentication, according to a report from security consultancy Digital Bond. Read More

 
 
 

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