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4 reasons email will never die How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers Network World Daily News PM November 21, 2013 Share this email 12 IT jobs getting biggest raises in 2014 The average salary for newly hired IT pros is expected to increase 5.6% in the coming year READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 4 reasons email will never die 2. INSIDER How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers 3. South Park: A dead Bill Gates engineers the murder of Steve Ballmer over Xbox competition 4. Money, money: Box, others bask in hot VC market 5. Hot products from Supercomputing Conference 6. Smartwatches are basically useless 7. How open data can keep us safe 8. How to introduce Linux to your little kid 9. FTC jams mobile phone crammers 10. Stuxnet creators defined 21st century warfare 11. 13 highly productive Android apps that play nice with your PC 12. How BYOD Puts Everyone at Legal Risk 13. Study: Business leaders lacking confidence in IT 14. 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But for Karl Collins, vice president of technical services and infrastructure at SavaSeniorCare, IT's newfound ownership of enterprise-wide photocopiers has yielded $739,000 annual savings and increased visibility among executives. READ MORE South Park: A dead Bill Gates engineers the murder of Steve Ballmer over Xbox competition The only thing more brutal than Microsoft-Sony gamebox competition is South Park's depiction of how brutal that competition is. In the most recent episode, the folks producing the show have created a scene in which Bill Gates lectures a mortally wounded Steve Ballmer about the cutthroat nature of that rivalry. (If you click on that link, beware it's pretty NSFW. The scene in question is at 7:47)... READ MORE Money, money: Box, others bask in hot VC market Recent investments by venture capitalists in cloud, big data and converged infrastructure companies show not only the healthy interest among financiers to back next-generation technologies, but provide a preview of what technologies from startups today could be mainstream in tomorrow's IT world. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) FREE 30-day Trial SolarWinds NPM works as your early warning system to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. Use this early warning system to stop network outages before they affect your users, so you can spend your time monitoring your network rather than supporting your network monitoring software. To find out more about how this early detection system works reference the free, fully functional 30-day trial of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. Download now and start discovering your network within an hour! Hot products from Supercomputing Conference Some of the biggest new products rolled out at SC13 READ MORE Smartwatches are basically useless The buzz around smartwatches will fade once people realize there's no actual reason to buy one. READ MORE How open data can keep us safe After two convicted murderers walked free after hacking their own release documents, some are concerned that the systems will be closed down in response. Here's why that's the wrong approach. READ MORE How to introduce Linux to your little kid What are the best ways to get kids interested in Linux at an early age? READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More FTC jams mobile phone crammers The Federal Trade Commission today said it settled allegations that a mobile operator had put charges on phone bills without user consent - an illegal practice known as cramming or "cramouflage"- to the tune of $10 million. READ MORE Stuxnet creators defined 21st century warfare Stuxnet creators recognized they had built the world's first true cyber-weapon and were more interested in pushing the envelope of this new type of digital warfare than causing large-scale destruction within targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, a study shows. READ MORE 13 highly productive Android apps that play nice with your PC READ MORE How BYOD Puts Everyone at Legal Risk If your BYOD policy goes too far you may be prosecuted for unfair labor practices. However, courts expect you to produce all relevant data in discovery proceedings. Meanwhile, your employees may fear retaliation if they don't sign draconian BYOD policies. CIO.com talks to attorneys to better understand the legal side of BYOD. READ MORE Study: Business leaders lacking confidence in IT When it comes to the readiness of critical IT requirements, including availability, security, as well as backup and recovery, business leaders in some of the world's top markets lack confidence in their ability to cope and recover from disruptive incidents. READ MORE Worm targeting Apache Tomcat servers, possibly for DDoS A worm-like type of malicious software has been found targeting Apache Tomcat, an open-source Web server application, according to Symantec. READ MORE WEBCAST: Novell Putting Mobile Employees to Work Mobile Employees in the workplace. Watch this webcast. Click Here>> Learn More>> SLIDESHOWS 20 hottest tech toys for the holidays Cool Yule Tools 2013: Our Tester Elf-approved picks for awesome gadgety goodness. 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