Software employment rises, as angst in engineering grows

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	Software employment rises 45% in 10 years, as angst in engineering grows Software development employment has increased over the past 10 years, but not all IT areas have done as well. The number of jobs for engineers fell over the same period. Read More In this Issue Apple confirms hack of its developer website Long-term review: Apple's newest MacBook Air continues to impress HP, NEC to develop next-generation x86 servers SIM cards vulnerable to hacking, says researcher Mike Elgan: Why the mob rules Best security tools for under $3,000 Internet traffic jams, meet your robot nemesis SAS Institute, National Instruments top list of companies with good work-life balance SAP co-CEO Snabe to step down in 2014 U.S. court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata 10 cool analog computers Wall Street Beat: Software a bright spot as tech results bring gloom AMD continues to move toward profitability Ubuntu forum defaced, breached by hackers Richi Jennings: Apple hacked: 'Naked' personal details accessed; Dev Center down for DAYS WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Data Center Transformation: Stepping Back to Move Forward With goals to regain control, improve security and control costs, IT leaders are reevaluating computing assets in remote locations. A new IDG Research Services study highlights how organizations are transforming their data centers while improving application performance and availability, consolidating branch servers, and improving data protection. Learn more>> Apple confirms hack of its developer website Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and sSome information may have been stolen. Read More Long-term review: Apple's newest MacBook Air continues to impress When it comes to style, the new model looks exactly like its predecessor. This year's changes are all beneath the surface -- and are uniformly good, says Michael deAgonia. Read More HP, NEC to develop next-generation x86 servers Hewlett Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications. Read More SIM cards vulnerable to hacking, says researcher Millions of mobile phones may be vulnerable to spying due to the use of outdated, 1970s-era cryptography, according to new research due to be presented at the Black Hat security conference. Read More Mike Elgan: Why the mob rules Many of today's hottest products do something similar -- they get their value from the collective actions of users. Mike Elgan explains why crowdsourcing and all that user data is so successful and valuable. Read More Best security tools for under $3,000 Check Point wins test of eight unified threat management (UTM) devices for small business. Read More Internet traffic jams, meet your robot nemesis On an 80-core computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists have built a tool that might make networks significantly faster just by coming up with better algorithms. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Federal IT Innovation Caught in a Catch-22 Fed resources shoring up old infrastructure, holding back new technologies. Read Now SAS Institute, National Instruments top list of companies with good work-life balance Sixteen of the top 25 companies offering a good work-life balance are technology companies, according to a new ranking from the job site Glassdoor, with the SAS Institute and National Instruments leading the pack. Read More SAP co-CEO Snabe to step down in 2014 SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe will leave his post in May 2014 to become a member of the enterprise software vendor's supervisory board, leaving Bill McDermott as sole CEO. Read More U.S. court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect telephone metadata in bulk. Read More 10 cool analog computers In their heyday, analog computers handled heavy-duty math, scientific and industrial applications. Read More Wall Street Beat: Software a bright spot as tech results bring gloom Though software sales provided a ray of light in otherwise mixed results this week, gloom settled over the tech sector Friday in the wake of bellwether IT quarterly earnings reports. Read More AMD continues to move toward profitability Advanced Micro Devices hopes for financial stability after years of struggles, but analysts said that a volatile PC market could derail the chip designer's progress. Read More Ubuntu forum defaced, breached by hackers A website dedicated to discussion of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was breached on Saturday, with hackers gaining access to encrypted passwords and email addresses. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple hacked: 'Naked' personal details accessed; Dev Center down for DAYS Cook and Co. rush around and fix bugs. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is scrambling to fix a security hole in its Developer Center site. It's been down 'for maintenance' since Thursday, but now the company's confessed it was hacked, and that some personal information was stored unencrypted. However, a Turkish security researcher based in London says he reported the problem and that he's not a hacker at all. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get to the bottom of the situation. Read More
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