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	Improv group comes to rescue of texting pedestrians with Seeing-eye People The scene-making Improv Everywhere troupe has released a pair of videos in which it pokes fun at people who can't take their eyes off their texting devices even while navigating busy streets in New York City. Improv Everywhere's solution for safeguarding oblivious walking/texting zombies: Seeing-eye People. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! In this Issue Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired Carnegie Mellon develops wee QWERTY texting technology for impossibly tiny devices White House program targets IT jobs for service members HP refreshes data center core and aggregation with SDN switches Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com Apache servers ambushed by sophisticated backdoor attacks 11 Profiles in Bad Leadership Behavior CIO Takes the Less-Traveled Path to IT Career Success Twitter's 'Who to follow' feature sometimes gets lost Interop: The quiz WEBCAST: Meru Networks Advanced WLAN Architectures for BYOD and Beyond Join industry - expert Craig Mathias and Robert Crisp from Meru Networks as they discuss today's key IT challenges View Now Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired Have you been considering adding some new programming skills to your toolbox, but you're not sure where to start? When it comes to what's hot for developers, CIO.com has you covered with which programming languages are in demand and where the development and programming jobs are. Read More Carnegie Mellon develops wee QWERTY texting technology for impossibly tiny devices If smartwatches and other ultra-small devices are to become the text generators of the future, their diminutive keyboards are going to have to be way more useful for, um, big fingered typists. Carnegie Mellon researchers may have the answer to that problem. Called ZoomBoard, the text entry technique is based on the iconic QWERTY keyboard layout. Read More White House program targets IT jobs for service members The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. Read More HP refreshes data center core and aggregation with SDN switches HP this week refreshed its switch line and fortified its SDN portfolio with three new systems and a router, along with management and provisioning software extensions. Read More Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data Any discussion about the challenges of big data will eventually come to the talent gap--the demand for people with big data analytics skills is expected to dramatically outpace supply over the next several years. Read More Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox. Read More Apache servers ambushed by sophisticated backdoor attacks Apache servers are being ambushed by a particularly pernicious malware program called Linux/Cdorked.A that's infecting visitors to the sick machines with the Blackhole malware kit. Read More 11 Profiles in Bad Leadership Behavior Recognizing where you fall short in your management style and then developing a plan to strengthen those areas can mean the difference between being a boss and being a leader. It can also make a difference in how far you advance in your IT management career. Read More CIO Takes the Less-Traveled Path to IT Career Success This divisional CIO got his promotion after a stint in the IT infrastructure group -- a stint that some would view as career suicide, but he viewed as valuable experience Read More Twitter's 'Who to follow' feature sometimes gets lost This post is for serious Twitter users, so others should feel free to check their Facebook pages. Read More Interop: The quiz From strange titles of talks to the use of exotic broadcast media, Interop has been drawing attention for more than two decades Read More
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