Enterprise IT loses with Microsoft's CAL price hike

	Paul Glen: Build relationships, and career opportunities will follow | The Grill: James T. Wilkes finds connections between beekeeping and IT
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	Enterprise IT loses with Microsoft's CAL price hike Microsoft's recent increase in the price of its user client-access licenses (CAL) is a 'lose-lose' deal for enterprise customers but will likely yield a major revenue boost for the vendor. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial In this Issue Paul Glen: Build relationships, and career opportunities will follow INSIDER The Grill: James T. Wilkes finds connections between beekeeping and IT Samsung clashes with labor group over underage worker allegations in China IT Outsourcing Year in Review: Grading Our Predictions Patrick Thibodeau: Automation is making unions irrelevant RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Paul Glen: Build relationships, and career opportunities will follow Your competitive advantage in the labor market will come from your interest in, and aptitude for, creating good experiences for the people you work with, says columnist Paul Glen. Read More INSIDER The Grill: James T. Wilkes finds connections between beekeeping and IT James T. Wilkes, chair of the Appalachian State University computer science department, mixes what he's learned about IT with his other professions: farming and beekeeping. For example, he created a Web application that helps beekeepers manage their hives. Insider (registration required) Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right View this on-demand webcast to learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. Samsung clashes with labor group over underage worker allegations in China Samsung is facing accusations that the company deliberately tried to hide the employment of underage workers at a Chinese supplier, after a labor protection group said it found three girls under the age of 16 employed at the factory. Read More IT Outsourcing Year in Review: Grading Our Predictions At this time last year, we predicted that 2012 would be the year cloud computing hype ended. We said application development would migrate from offshore to cities stateside. And we forecasted that IT service providers would become more relationship-oriented. Now it's time to see how those predictions panned out. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Automation is making unions irrelevant The problem with unions is they can't protect jobs. They can't stop a company from moving jobs overseas, closing offices, and replacing workers with automation. I grew up in Connecticut, a heavily unionized state. In the post-war period, the state's industries made typewriters, appliances, bearings, locks, tools.  None of them survived. Read More
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