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	Best Buy cancels telework program First Yahoo, now Best Buy. In the midst of a corporate restructuring, the electronics retailer has canceled its flexible work program and expects corporate employees to put in traditional 40-hour work weeks at its headquarters in Richfield, Minn. Read More WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Forrester Video: The Next Generation Cloud and Your Network Forrester's Vanessa Alvarez highlights the importance of automation, flexibility, and agility when enterprise organizations rely on the cloud, in particular, the large amounts of data traversing the WAN. Learn more. In this Issue Which tech degrees pay the most from day one? U.S. lawmaker introduces bill to legalize cellphone unlocking Cisco targeted by another patent troll Business user makes case for Windows Phone 8 Hybrid technology degrees emerging IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012 INSIDER How to blunt spear phishing attacks Productivity gains spur Intel to expand BYOD program Microsoft issues free tool it says will cut Azure costs WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now Which tech degrees pay the most from day one? Young technologists have a variety of undergraduate degrees that they can pursue at the collegiate level. But which degree is going to produce the most job offers and the highest starting salaries? Should college students major in computer science, software engineering, IT or some other niche in order to snare the top prize four years from now: a six-figure starting salary, perhaps with stock options? Read More U.S. lawmaker introduces bill to legalize cellphone unlocking A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Barack Obama backed over 114,000 petitioners who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. Read More Cisco targeted by another patent troll Another patent enforcement company is coming after Cisco. VirnetX Holding Corp. is seeking $258 million from Cisco for allegedly infringing VPN patents, according to this Bloomberg report. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Taking Collaboration to the Cloud The 25-point plan and the Cloud First policy both encourage and pressure Federal CIOs to find cloud solutions that can result in significant cost take-outs in the IT support model. Read Now Business user makes case for Windows Phone 8 Part of what Microsoft hopes customers will understand about Windows Phone 8 smartphones is that they are linked to an ecosystem that includes Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Read More Hybrid technology degrees emerging As demand for college graduates with technical degrees soars, new majors are emerging that are hybrids of computer science, information systems and computer engineering. Read More IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012 IDC is predicting a growth rate of 6% in IT spending in the U.S. this year, an amount that's virtually unchanged from last year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. INSIDER How to blunt spear phishing attacks According to Allen Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks are the result of successful spear phishing. In other words, somebody received an email and either clicked on a link or opened a file that they weren't supposed to. Read More Productivity gains spur Intel to expand BYOD program Intel has expanded its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program, which has been a resounding success, providing around 5 million hours of annual productivity gains last year, the company said. Read More Microsoft issues free tool it says will cut Azure costs If it works, a new free tool called MetricsHub can help cut costs of using Microsoft's Azure cloud services by automatically making the service run more efficiently and by increasing and decreasing Azure resources as customer need fluctuates. Read More
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