Best Places to Work in IT 2013: Employee scorecard

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	Best Places to Work in IT 2013: Employee scorecard Find out what matters most to more than 27,000 technology workers at the 100 Best Places to Work in IT. Read More WHITE PAPER: Nasuni Corp Eliminating the Need for WAN Acceleration Using the Cloud Download this white paper to learn about how the cloud is an exciting new alternative to traditional WAN acceleration. Learn More. In this Issue Microsoft shows revenue hand with Office for iPhone Google tests Internet connectivity via balloons in the stratosphere Feedly starts moving users to homespun RSS service as Google Reader death looms Now, a robot with nine lives Samsung mass produces 1.4GBps PCIe flash cards for notebooks NSA can access data without court approval, leaker says U.K. spy agency reportedly snooped on delegates at G20 meetings in '09 Samsung's Galaxy S4 doubles download speeds on LTE-Advanced network Video Brew: Derned right geeks are funny! Five ways the Sprint-Clearwire drama might end Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet Guys, stop creeping out women at tech events European trust in US compromised, says EU data protection head Jonny Evans: Woz says no to PRISM in the free world Preston Gralla: Microsoft: We've had surveillance requests on over 31,000 customers Robert L. Mitchell: How Enova programmers gamified recruiting WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc What it takes to deliver Security, and Privacy at Mimecast. This whitepaper explains the process and controls that Mimecast put in place to deliver a secure, private and trusted SaaS platform for your email security, email archiving and email continuity. Learn More Microsoft shows revenue hand with Office for iPhone Last week's release of Office Mobile for the iPhone nailed down one of the mysteries pundits had pondered -- how Microsoft planned to generate Office revenue from Apple's iPhone and iPad. Read More Google tests Internet connectivity via balloons in the stratosphere Google launched high-altitude balloons in a test to create a wireless network that could provide Internet access to remote and underserved parts of the world. Read More Feedly starts moving users to homespun RSS service as Google Reader death looms Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service. Read More Now, a robot with nine lives Swiss scientists have created a cat-like robot with the stability and agility to one day be used in search-and-rescue missions. Read More Samsung mass produces 1.4GBps PCIe flash cards for notebooks Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for ultra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1400MBps throughput. Read More NSA can access data without court approval, leaker says Analysts at the U.S. National Security Agency can gain access to the content of U.S. targets' phone calls and email messages without court orders, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said, contradicting denials from U.S. government sources. Read More U.K. spy agency reportedly snooped on delegates at G20 meetings in '09 British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly intercepted the electronic communications of foreign politicians during G20 meetings that took place in London in 2009. Read More Samsung's Galaxy S4 doubles download speeds on LTE-Advanced network Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of running on LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Backup and Recovery Changes This IDC Whitepaper provides an overview of the forces driving change within today's IT organizations and data centers and discusses how backup and recovery can enable or hinder broader IT infrastructure and business transformation. Learn more. Video Brew: Derned right geeks are funny! Many, if not all, professions require a sense of humor. That's certainly true in the case of the IT professional. Let's face it: we're pretty much stereotyped as social outcasts. The pocket protector industry would fold without our support. White adhesive tape would be utilized for purposes other than holding broken glasses frames together. Jolt! Cola might not even exist! Read More Five ways the Sprint-Clearwire drama might end The battle of takeovers among Sprint Nextel, Dish Network, Clearwire and SoftBank has heated up as Clearwire's board recommended shareholders accept Dish's bid instead of Sprint's. Read More Prism doesn't have CIOs in a panic -- yet Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions. Read More Guys, stop creeping out women at tech events Not realizing that your behaviors constitute harassment is no excuse. Read More European trust in US compromised, says EU data protection head Europe's top privacy watchdog and the Digital Agenda Commissioner both said Monday that more transparency and trust is needed between the European Union and the United States following the Prism scandal. Read More Jonny Evans: Woz says no to PRISM in the free world With free men now gazing through PRISM, darkly, Apple has moved to quell fears concerning its customer's online privacy by revealing those details it is aware of regarding the US NSA's legitimately filed requests for that data -- but have we got the big picture, or just a partial account of what's been going on? Meanwhile Apple co-founder, Woz, is angry at the implications of the NSA's snooping system. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft: We've had surveillance requests on over 31,000 customers How much snooping do government agencies actually do on people and businesses? Judging by the surveillance requests they ask of Microsoft, quite a bit. Microsoft reports that for the second half of last year, it had received requests on between 31,000 and 32,000 customers. And Google, Facebook, and Apple have had many tens of thousands others. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: How Enova programmers gamified recruiting The financial services firm's sofware engineers have gamified recruiting by challenging aspiring programmers to compete in a friendly game of poker. Read More
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