How to take control of your own IT career

	SSD prices continue to plunge | After Newtown tragedy, cops target social net pranksters
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	How to take control of your own IT career Tech staffers are migrating into new roles -- frequently with non-IT job titles -- throughout the enterprise, working on an array of projects that require tech savvy in addition to business and process knowledge, management skills and more. Where you land all depends on your proficiency with one of today's most indispensable career navigation tools -- your own customized career strategy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Top 10 Considerations for cloud computing As business users push for faster and easier ways to roll out applications, cloud usage is on the rise. As a result, many cloud projects are initiated outside the realm of IT – without the clear requirements or measurable objectives. "Top 10 Considerations for Cloud Computing" provides a checklist for taking a more strategic approach to cloud. Download your complementary checklist In this Issue SSD prices continue to plunge After Newtown tragedy, cops target social net pranksters Ray Kurzweil to join Google Google to phase out Sync, other services Samsung devices vulnerable to dangerous Android exploit Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo Gmail wobbles again on Friday, fourth incident since late last week Website aims to bypass block on payments to WikiLeaks Finally: Real virtual assistants Darlene Storm: Feds spying on innocent Americans just in case we might commit future crimes Richi Jennings: Cisco to dump failed Linksys unit, say rumor-mongers WHITE PAPER: SAS Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics has the power to significantly improve the bottom line. From better targeting and risk assessment to streamlining operations and optimizing business decisions in all areas, predictive analytics is the next big step toward gaining a competitive edge. Read Now SSD prices continue to plunge Solid-state drive pricing has dropped about 30% this year, reaching what researchers call the magic price point of $1-per-gigabyte of capacity, according to information from IHS iSupply and Dynamite Data Read More After Newtown tragedy, cops target social net pranksters In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn, police warned that they will prosecute anyone purposefully posting false information related to the incident on social networks. Read More Ray Kurzweil to join Google Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google. Read More Google to phase out Sync, other services Google will begin to phase out its Sync service for consumers and discontinue several other services in early January. Read More Samsung devices vulnerable to dangerous Android exploit A suspected fault in how Samsung Electronics has implemented the Android's kernel in several of its devices could allow a malicious application to gain total control over the device. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). Read More Gmail wobbles again on Friday, fourth incident since late last week Gmail ran into technical difficulties again on Friday, the fourth such issue in a little over a week, and all happening after Google announced the elimination of its free Google Apps edition. Read More Website aims to bypass block on payments to WikiLeaks A new website, set up by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and some other civil rights activists, aims to crowdsource donations for WikiLeaks and three other organizations. Read More Finally: Real virtual assistants A new generation of free virtual assistant apps that are more powerful than Siri and Google Voice Search represent the future of human-machine interaction, and they are here now, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More Darlene Storm: Feds spying on innocent Americans just in case we might commit future crimes Although started in secret, the massive spying powers granted to the National Counterterrorism Center include access to any U.S. government database in order to analyze that stored info for suspicious patterns of behavior or for terrorism indicators. Data on innocent Americans can be collected and stored for five years, just in case you might commit future crimes. All it takes is a notice to be published on the Federal Register and your privacy rights are nonexistent. Read More Richi Jennings: Cisco to dump failed Linksys unit, say rumor-mongers People with (ahem) "knowledge of the situation" say that Cisco is about to sell its Linksys business unit. Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) bought Linksys almost ten years ago, as part of a strategy to move into consumer and small-business products. Sadly for Cisco CEO John Chambers (pictured), that strategy has lost money; this sale will be the latest in a line of closures and divestitures of Cisco's low-end businesses. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shed few tears for the purveyor of shoddy products that Linksys has become. Read More
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