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Monday, September 02, 2013

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September 02, 2013

14 Ways to Take Your IT Career to the Next Level

Trying to climb the corporate IT ladder is tough enough, but differentiating yourself from the pack is even tougher. Learn what it takes to build a plan for success and get ahead as an IT pro.

Issue highlights

1. 8 Tips to Boost Your Resume Chances with Applicant Tracking Systems

2. Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver

3. Top 10 States for Tech Jobs Growth

4. IT Gender Salary Gap Not As Dramatic As You Think

5. Career Watch: QA engineers are just about the happiest workers of all

6. IT careers: Does it pay to become a brand specialist?

7. INSIDER Working vacations are an IT mainstay

8. Career Watch: Mentoring, from both sides

9. How to Take Your IT Career to the Next Level

10. IT Resume Makeover: How to Tell Your Career Story

11. 3 Tips for Handling the 'Between Jobs' Status

12. How to Prepare for (and Ace) the Technical Interview

13. 10 reasons for IT job-hunters to be optimistic

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8 Tips to Boost Your Resume Chances with Applicant Tracking Systems

Experts agree that submitting your resume online isn't the best choice. But what do you do when you've found a dream job that matches your skill set perfectly, you don't know anyone on the inside and you're running out of time? READ MORE

Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver

It can be a long climb to the top of the corporate ladder. With Labor Day in mind, we asked tech CEOs who've reached the highest rung to share their first job experiences. Some were entrepreneurs at an early age, offering lawn-mowing and scuba diving services. Others toiled in the fields and factories. Many got their hands dirty, scrubbing oil stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. READ MORE

Top 10 States for Tech Jobs Growth

The IT job market has slowly and steadily been growing overall, but these 10 states have shown the most growth within the tech jobs sector. We talk to industry experts to find out what's driving the trends in these thriving markets. READ MORE

IT Gender Salary Gap Not As Dramatic As You Think

It's a common belief that men are paid more than women for the same job in the tech field. However, based on two recent salary surveys, that belief turns out to be less accurate than you might think. However, that doesn't mean significant gender career issues don't exist. READ MORE

WEBCAST: HP & Intel®

Cloud Knowledge Vault

According to market research, more than 60 percent of enterprises will have adopted some form of cloud computing by 2013. Learn how your organization can benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and performance that the cloud offers through the short videos and other resources in this HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault. View Now

Career Watch: QA engineers are just about the happiest workers of all

A survey puts QA in the No. 2 position when it comes to on-the-job contentment. READ MORE

IT careers: Does it pay to become a brand specialist?

Hitching your wagon to the latest 'it' technology can lead to lucrative pay and compelling job opportunities, but it's not without risk. dBase developer, anyone? READ MORE

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Working vacations are an IT mainstay

That IT professionals work on vacation is as obvious as sand on the beach. Some see that as an inescapable aspect of their chosen careers, and they just might relish the idea of being indispensable. Insider (registration required) READ MORE

Career Watch: Mentoring, from both sides

A mentor and mentee explain what they have gained from their company's mentorship program. READ MORE

WEBCAST: Egnyte

The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing

Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now!

How to Take Your IT Career to the Next Level

Trying to climb the corporate IT ladder is tough enough, but differentiating yourself from the pack is even tougher. Learn what it takes to build a plan for success and get ahead as an IT pro. READ MORE

IT Resume Makeover: How to Tell Your Career Story

Not getting the responses you expected from your online resume? Learn what common pitfalls IT pros experience in their journey to find a better job. READ MORE

3 Tips for Handling the 'Between Jobs' Status

A career coach describes ways to deal with a transition between jobs. Hint: Don't call yourself 'unemployed.' READ MORE

How to Prepare for (and Ace) the Technical Interview

As developers and IT pros you need to do all the things everyone else does to prepare for a job interview such as update and focus your resume as well as work on your communication and presentation skills. However, you also have the technical interview to deal with. READ MORE

10 reasons for IT job-hunters to be optimistic

IT employment numbers are rising, employers are forging ahead with hiring plans, and CIOs are confident about business operations and budget stability READ MORE

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Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences

Whether you are in retail, hospitality, healthcare, transportation, or another industry, keeping and attracting customers is crucial to the success of your organization. Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences can help you improve customer loyalty and increase revenue. Learn more.

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8. Apple's iPhone trade-in program is a game changer

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Sunday, September 01, 2013

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Re: Headphones

Is it time to start hacking the hackers?

17 epic Microsoft Windows Auto Update meltdowns

iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28

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September 01, 2013

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Is it time to start hacking the hackers?

In the light of unprecedented attacks by cybercriminals against businesses that span every industry, this question has come to the fore: Is it time to fight back?

Issue highlights

1. 17 epic Microsoft Windows Auto Update meltdowns

2. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28

3. Microsoft: Ballmer may be going but our direction remains the same

4. Thinking of building a mobile app?

5. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety'

6. Apple remains the top target for patent trolls

7. Delta IV Heavy blasts off with NROL-65 reconnaissance satellite

8. INSIDER How to roll your own VPN

9. Products of the week 8.26.13

WHITE PAPER: CDW

Can You Benefit from Social CRM?

Social tools and strategies are now crucial to building a successful CRM strategy. Learn how to take advantage of social CRM to improve business processes and enhance customer loyalty without a complete "rip-and-replace" of traditional CRM tools. Read Now

17 epic Microsoft Windows Auto Update meltdowns

These legendary clunkers made Patch Tuesday a living hell for Windows users the world over READ MORE

iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28

Still more photographs purporting to show exteriors of the Apple iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 were posted this week. But they only underlined how little the iOSphere actually knows about the Next iPads. READ MORE

Microsoft: Ballmer may be going but our direction remains the same

Microsoft promises to keep hammering away at same business principles that were forged during the tenure of CEO Steve Ballmer, who has announced he's leaving the company within a year. According to The Official Microsoft Blog the company will adhere to the core beliefs that it and Ballmer first articulated last fall: READ MORE

WEBCAST: Juniper Networks

Live Event: Deploying a Virtual Network in Your Data Center

Many believe that data center network virtualization can effectively operate over any physical network infrastructure. Wrong! Join a live webinar discussion on September 26th at 11am PDT // 2 pm EDT with IDG, VMware and Juniper Networks where you'll learn to demystify this assumption. View Now

Thinking of building a mobile app?

If you're thinking of building a mobile app you don't have to go "native". Going with native tools can produce robust, complex apps but the downside is that porting from iOS to Android to Windows to Linux to ... quickly becomes a nightmare. READ MORE

School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety'

A California school district, citing it's for the children's "safety" excuses, hired a company to monitor students' social media posts even when the kids are not on campus. Glendale Unified School District includes "31 schools and over 2,620 employees, serving 27,000 students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade." The district is paying $40,500 for Geo Listening to analyze the social media posts... READ MORE

Apple remains the top target for patent trolls

With nearly US$150 billion in the bank, Apple finds itself in the envious position of having more cash on hand than it knows what to do with. Recently, Apple leveraged its cash position to borrow money at extremely low interest rates as a means to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks. On top of that, Apple in recent months appears to be acquiring companies at a faster clip than in years past. Unfortunately,... READ MORE

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SDN: The next wave of networking innovation

Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN

Delta IV Heavy blasts off with NROL-65 reconnaissance satellite

Delta IV Heavy blasts off with NROL-65 reconnaissance satellite A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:03am PDT on August 28, 2013, carrying a classified payload believed to be a U.S. spy satellite. From: networkworld Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 01:53 More in Science & Technology READ MORE

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How to roll your own VPN

With free open source OpenVPN and a low-cost VPS, you can have a secure connection from any location READ MORE

Products of the week 8.26.13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Dell and CheckPoint READ MORE

WEBCAST: Juniper Networks

Converged Access for a More Agile Enterprise

A new convergence trend is making its way through the enterprise: converged user access across wired and wireless networks. Driving this trend is the need to accommodate a dizzying array of devices and data, communicating wirelessly from a variety of locations across and outside of the enterprise. View now >>

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Hot products from VMworld 2013

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JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES

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MOST-READ STORIES

1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line

2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers

3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up

4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety'

5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data