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	Tech companies pick up tab for pricey CEO perks CEO pay packages include perks such as access to the corporate jet, home security, and financial planning advice. Read More   WHITE PAPER: VMware Ebook: A Guide to Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud allows you to augment your internal data center resources, providing a flexible and cost-effective solution for a variety of use cases. This eBook presents an inside-out approach for extending your data center to the cloud. Learn more! In this Issue Box Helps Creative Pros 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' INSIDER Why Cisco, Intel, and Qualcomm are funding IoT startups Let the countdown begin: Windows 7 mainstream support ends in six months 12 Tips to Help College Grads Land Their First IT Job Best crowdfunded project ever: Potato salad. Goal: $10. Pledged (so far): over $57,000! What's next for Wi-Fi? A second wave of 802.11ac devices, and then: 802.11ax Superclass: 14 of the world's best living programmers INSIDER Must-have tools for setting up a Wi-Fi net Work up a sweat with these Bluetooth headphones WEBCAST: HP Meg Whitman presents Unlocking IT with Big Data Today, the industry is at an inflection point - driven by a triple storm of Big Data, cloud, and mobility; and in this new environment, security is paramount. The New Style of IT is about how businesses and IT leverage this rapid change for enterprise growth. Learn More Box Helps Creative Pros 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' Box is starting to gain traction in one of the world's largest industries, winning more customers in advertising, digital marketing and communications. While the company is making its presence known at major events like last month's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the value proposition Box makes to companies in the advertising and marketing field are much like any other.With more than 225,000 businesses now using Box, the company has little incentive to re-focus or produce vertical industry versions of its product. Features that have been added to the file-sharing and enterprise-collaboration platform already deliver many use cases, including those appreciated by creative professionals.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER Why Cisco, Intel, and Qualcomm are funding IoT startups Internet of Things startups have had little trouble finding seed money lately, with overall venture capital surpassing the $1 billion mark in 2013 alone, according to CB Insights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   Let the countdown begin: Windows 7 mainstream support ends in six months   Three months after the XPocalypse, Microsoft has reset the countdown clock, this time for the end of free mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015.Now, this is a big difference over the end of XP support, and having gone through this argument with at least one person in my household, it made for good blog fodder.While this covers all versions of Windows 7, what this basically means is no more updated features or performance improvements, and you can't call up Microsoft support and get free help unless you are covered by an extended support contract, which I would think virtually every enterprise worth its salt would have.To some degree, Microsoft has already ended the first half of support for Windows 7. It has not released a second service pack for 7 despite the OS now approaching its fifth year and showing no signs of diminished popularity. It certainly hasn't added any new features or functionality in a long time, and it's hard for me to tell on my machine if performance has been improved since the vanilla release in 2009.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   12 Tips to Help College Grads Land Their First IT Job According to research conducted by labor market analytics and consulting firm Burning Glass , the future is looking bright, or brighter, for college students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) -- especially if they are looking to go into healthcare, IT or engineering & advanced manufacturing. Indeed, according to Burning Glass's findings, STEM graduates have access to twice as many entry-level jobs as non-STEM graduates -- and the pay is better too, $66,123 compared to $52,299.[ Best College Tech Majors for Landing a Top Starting Salary ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Best crowdfunded project ever: Potato salad. Goal: $10. Pledged (so far): over $57,000! If you were going to go for crowdfunding what sort of project do you think you might put forward? Something techie, like Adapteva's supercomputer on a chip (successfully funded with $898,921 pledged on a $750,000 goal)? Or maybe something in the bio world, such as a delightful project to explore the mushrooms of Madagascar (successfully funded with $7,682 pledged on a $5,000 goal)?  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   What's next for Wi-Fi? A second wave of 802.11ac devices, and then: 802.11ax Now that blazing-fast routers based on the IEEE 802.11ac standard are finally entering the mainstream, intrepid engineers are busily cooking up all-new hardware that will make that gear's performance seem quaint by comparison.That's not to say 802.11ac is about to fall by the wayside—after all, the IEEE didn't officially ratify the standard until December 2013. It's just that the chipsets capable of delivering all the features and performance in that standard are still in development.You see, most of the first wave of 802.11ac routers were based on draft versions of the 802.11ac standard. While some newer routers, such as Netgear's six-antenna Nighthawk X6, are implementing cool tricks to squeeze more performance from that technology, a second wave of 802.11ac routers will hit the beach in early 2015.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Superclass: 14 of the world's best living programmers When developers discuss who the world's top programmer is, these names tend to come up a lot Read More     INSIDER Must-have tools for setting up a Wi-Fi net   In order to ensure proper Wi-Fi coverage and performance, RF site surveys should be performed before and after WLAN installations and modifications. Though you can walk around and do simple signal checks and throughput tests using free software on your laptop, using Wi-Fi surveying software provides much better testing and reporting.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   Work up a sweat with these Bluetooth headphones I like how Bluetooth technology has evolved so much that there are now devices geared specifically towards a single purpose - in the case of these two gadgets, the workout/exercise crowd. While these headsets can still be used for making/receiving phone calls, that feature is now minor compared with other purposes - giving you good sound for music/podcasts/radio, long-lasting battery life and the ability to remain sweat-proof/waterproof for outside or strenuous exercise. Plantronics The scoop: BackBeat FIT Bluetooth headphones, by Plantronics, about $130To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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