If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat?

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	If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat? Despite information technology's ever increasing role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud - Learn How! This white paper discusses how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, & run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Learn More! In this Issue Qualcomm aims to bring quad-core phones to the masses Judge warns Apple, Samsung to follow court rules in patent case Yahoo acquires video chat startup OnTheAir Twitter fixes SMS-based account hijacking vulnerability China Mobile to brand own handsets, as it waits for iPhone HP brings tablet functionality to new laptop EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers U.S. government needs cybersecurity doctrine, experts say Nokia Siemens Networks closes one business unit, sells another Preston Gralla: Windows 8 convertible devices: Born to fail Richi Jennings: UN to grab net control at ITU WCIT boondoggle? Perhaps not. RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. Qualcomm aims to bring quad-core phones to the masses Qualcomm is preparing two new quad-core processors for the mainstream smartphone market, with support for several Chinese standards. Read More Judge warns Apple, Samsung to follow court rules in patent case Two days ahead of the first post-trial hearing in the patent infringement fight between Apple and Samsung, a California judge has signaled to lawyers for both companies that she expects them to follow her instructions and work by her rules. Read More Yahoo acquires video chat startup OnTheAir Yahoo has acquired a video chat startup OnTheAir as the company focuses on mobile applications and services. Read More Twitter fixes SMS-based account hijacking vulnerability Twitter has restricted the ability of attackers to post tweets and perform other actions on behalf of many users who have phone numbers associated with their accounts, but some users need to enable a PIN option in order to be protected. Read More China Mobile to brand own handsets, as it waits for iPhone China Mobile, the country's largest mobile carrier, will develop its own company-branded handsets, while hoping to eventually strike a deal with Apple for the iPhone. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Business Intelligence Market Trends and Adoption Patterns Date and Time: December 11th at 12:00 PM EST A valuable examination of the state of the BI marketplace, this report is the culmination of data from 859 users over topics such as quality and usefulness of product, sales experience, quality of technical support, quality and value of consulting services, integrity and recommendations. Register Now HP brings tablet functionality to new laptop Hewlett-Packard is bringing a twist to its business laptop design with the new EliteBook Revolve, which is the company's first Windows 8 touchscreen laptop that can double up as a tablet in some circumstances. Read More EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. Read More U.S. government needs cybersecurity doctrine, experts say The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cybersecurity instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyberthreats, according to a group of experts. Read More Nokia Siemens Networks closes one business unit, sells another Nokia Siemens Networks is selling off its second business unit in less than a week, and has announced the closure of another, as it focuses on its more profitable mobile broadband networking activities. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows 8 convertible devices: Born to fail Microsoft and hardware makers have big hopes for "convertible"Windows 8 notebooks/tablets -- machines that do double-duty as notebooks and tablets. But "convertibles" and similar devices are bound to fail. They're a marketing concept in search of a reason to live, and there is none. Read More Richi Jennings: UN to grab net control at ITU WCIT boondoggle? Perhaps not. WCIT, the meeting of the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is said to be plotting to seize control of the Internet. Naturally, this has many right-thinking people up in arms. But it also has a few less-sane voices speaking up. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers stop worrying and learn to love the ITU (only kidding). Read More
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