Tech Salary Guide for 2014

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	Tech Salary Guide for 2014 If you work in the tech industry, the good news is that overall salaries are up year-over-year. But you're probably thinking, 'Fine, but what does that mean to me?' If you want to see where you fit, this IT salary guide covers every tech job from CIO to help desk professionals. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE The Cornerstone of New In-House IT Operation for CP Railways As part of this sweeping transformation, Canadian Pacific Railways (CP) took a fresh look at its outsourced IT and decided to bring the entire operation in-house. After evaluating various options, CP chose Vblock™ Systems from VCE to virtualize its extensive suite of business-critical SAP applications and other business solutions. Learn More In this Issue Google selling Motorola is win-win-win for Android MacGyver IT: 21 tools for IT heroes Payments made via mobile devices surge to about 20% of all transactions, processor says Why Android, Samsung are Real Winners in Google's Motorola/Lenovo Deal Researchers create Android app to show when other apps track you Internet of Things in five words: sensor, monkey, radio, cloud, Paris iPhoneys: Coolest iPhone 6 design concepts Should Sprint buy T-Mobile? Facebook sees apps in its future ... lots of apps Update: More than 1B smartphones were shipped in 2013 Boost the soft sounds around you; keychain-sized phone charging cable 21 more crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers WEBCAST: 8x8, Inc Using Cloud Communications for a Competitive Advantage Watch this Frost & Sullivan webcast to learn why distributed organizations are rejecting the old model of premises-based communications solutions and have turned to cloud communications. Learn more >> Google selling Motorola is win-win-win for Android Well, that was unexpected – most of you will have heard by now that Google just sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for almost $3 billion, taking Android's parent company back out of the hardware game, and, possibly, putting the whole ecosystem on solid footing for the future. Read More MacGyver IT: 21 tools for IT heroes On the road, under duress, or out in the boonies -- save the day with these essential IT troubleshooting and repair tools Read More Payments made via mobile devices surge to about 20% of all transactions, processor says Payments made with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets rose 55% over last year, reaching a total of 19.5% of all transactions processed worldwide in December by Amsterdam's Adyen. Read More Why Android, Samsung are Real Winners in Google's Motorola/Lenovo Deal Yesterday, Google shook up the mobile space with a surprising sale of its Motorola Mobility hardware division to China's Lenovo. (The purchase, of course, is pending regulatory approval.) Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Straight Talk about the Cloud Are you looking to understand how feasible the cloud really is to meet your specific requirements for backup and disaster recovery? Learn where the cloud is and is not a good fit by downloading Straight Talk About the Cloud for Data Backup & Disaster Recovery. Learn More Researchers create Android app to show when other apps track you A team of researchers has developed an Android app to help people better understand when their location is being accessed, something that happens more often than people think. Read More Internet of Things in five words: sensor, monkey, radio, cloud, Paris If you want to build your own Internet of Things, try the toy monkey hack. Read More iPhoneys: Coolest iPhone 6 design concepts Moving beyond iPhone 5S and 5C, new designs feature bigger screens and more magic Read More Should Sprint buy T-Mobile? Sprint is expected to report a big loss of subscribers in its next earnings report, expected Feb. 11, further fueling speculation that No. 3 carrier Sprint has to merge with brash and bold "Un-Carrier" T-Mobile US. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® START small, grow tall: Why cloud now Executives and leaders look forward to the day when IT will be delivered as a pure service throughout the organization - available on demand much like electricity or water. Without a clear plan, organizations risk re-infecting their IT environments with complexity and sprawl. This paper will show you how to avoid these pitfalls. Learn More Facebook sees apps in its future ... lots of apps Imagine using a separate Facebook app just for sharing status updates with your closest friends, or maybe co-workers. In the next few years, such an app could exist. Read More Update: More than 1B smartphones were shipped in 2013 For the first time ever, just over 1 billion smartphones shipped to vendors worldwide in 2013, double the number of just two years earlier, IDC said late Monday. Read More Boost the soft sounds around you; keychain-sized phone charging cable The scoop: BEAN Quiet Sound Amplifier, by Etymotic Research, about $480 (for one; $860 for two) Read More 21 more crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers This year the TSA found everything from Bazooka rounds to a medieval mace and bones Read More
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