Life after IT: When CIOs leave at the top of their game

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	INSIDER Life after IT: When CIOs leave at the top of their game You work, you strive, you reach the top of your profession -- and then you leave? Sure, say these ex-CIOs. Read their take on life after IT. Insider (registration required) Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue In this Issue IE's browser share recovers, Chrome down for third straight month Global Payments says fewer than 1.5M cards affected in data theft Why Amazon can't win a tablet price war against Google Forecasting a warming world via thousands of PCs Samsung, NTT DoCoMo chip group abandon planned LTE chip joint venture iPad buyers: Your tablet is at the store (maybe) IBM to develop telescope data analysis system From CIO.com: 10 best U.S. cities for IT jobs with tech startups Why the key to Apple's future is in the clouds Qualcomm preps quad-core Snapdragon chip to counter Intel Dell expands virtual desktops into the cloud Gov't targets online counterfeits more than digital piracy IT Blogwatch: Ashton Kutcher "is" Steve Jobs in movie RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! IE's browser share recovers, Chrome down for third straight month Internet Explorer posted another major gain in share last month, the second in the first quarter of the year, perhaps signaling a turnaround in Microsoft's fortunes, a Web metrics company said. Read More Global Payments says fewer than 1.5M cards affected in data theft Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been "exported" as a result of an unauthorized access into its processing system. Read More Why Amazon can't win a tablet price war against Google Google and Amazon are about to go to war for the future of non-iPad tablets, but Amazon's business model can't be sustained. Here's why, according to columnist Mike Elgan. Read More Forecasting a warming world via thousands of PCs A recently released study that found global temperatures may be rising faster than expected was developed with the help of thousands of PCs. Read More Samsung, NTT DoCoMo chip group abandon planned LTE chip joint venture NTT DoCoMo said Monday a planned joint venture with Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC and other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE standard has been abandoned. Read More iPad buyers: Your tablet is at the store (maybe) The wait for a new iPad ordered online from Apple stretches one to two weeks, but customers can walk into a company store now and buy a tablet, according to a stock sampling on Friday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault How "mobile ready" is your infrastructure? This Mobility Knowledge Vault provides a wide variety of expert advice on how to strike a balance between end user ease-of-use and security. View now IBM to develop telescope data analysis system IBM is developing new data management and analysis technologies for what will be the world's largest radio telescope. The Square Kilometre Array, due to become operational in 2024, will produce so much data that even tomorrow's off-the-shelf computers will have difficulty processing all of it, the company predicted. Read More From CIO.com: 10 best U.S. cities for IT jobs with tech startups Tech startups have long attracted IT professionals to their payrolls, lured by the opportunity to work on cool projects with new technologies. If you're seeking the thrill of startup life, head to one of the following 10 U.S. cities identified by PayScale as a hot spot for finding high-paying IT jobs with tech startups. Read More Why the key to Apple's future is in the clouds When Apple changed its corporate name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc., it marked the first step in the transition from Apple's focus on the personal computer as the hub of consumer digital life to an ecosystem driven by a diverse collection of connected devices and services. Read More Qualcomm preps quad-core Snapdragon chip to counter Intel Qualcomm is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 chip for thin and light Windows 8 laptops, which the chip maker hopes will steal some thunder from Intel's second wave of ultrabooks due later this year. Read More Dell expands virtual desktops into the cloud Dell said it is expanding its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud through a partnership with another company. Read More Gov't targets online counterfeits more than digital piracy Two U.S. agencies seized 270 websites in 2011 for alleged copyright infringement, but just 22 of those sites were targeted for digital piracy, with the rest allegedly selling counterfeit products, according to the annual report from the government's intellectual-property enforcement coordinator. Read More IT Blogwatch: Ashton Kutcher "is" Steve Jobs in movie Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in a movie about the Apple co-founder's life. And he's such a look-alike, could he be Steve's son? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wait for @aplusk to confirm it on Twitter. Not to mention: Are they, perhaps, related? Read More
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