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	Do you understand your company's personality? Corporate culture may matter even more to your project's success than ROI does. Here's how to work with it rather than against it. Read More   In this Issue Gotcha! The FBI Gets Into Biometrics IT Careers: Should You Be an SVP? Thornton May: Reflections on inflections INSIDER The Grill: Aon's CIO embraces social media tools to connect 65,000 employees Paul Glen: Motivating the mercenaries Security Manager's Journal: Thousands of dollars in phone calls? Management hates that. Preston Gralla: With Comcast deal, say goodbye to the Internet as we've known it Career Watch: Pay was down for CS grads last year, but IT workers find that money isn't everything MLB, Stores Make Location-based Pitches Net Neutrality Ruling Spurs FCC to Set New Regs Itanium Fades as New Xeon Chip Debuts Target Attack Reveals HVAC Vulnerabilities California Fighting Drought With Tech Prospects Wane for Office on the iPad WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   10 Steps to Reducing Mainframe MLC Costs Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. Learn More Gotcha! The FBI Gets Into Biometrics The agency is in the final stages of rolling out a new database that will let law enforcement search for and identify criminals by palm print, iris image and mug shot as well as fingerprints. Early results are very positive. Read More   IT Careers: Should You Be an SVP? Attaining the title of CIO was once as high as a techie could rise. Now we're in the 'age of the ampersand' as IT pros add VP, SVP, EVP or CVP onto their business cards. But do the new titles mean anything? Read More   Thornton May: Reflections on inflections Every day, contemporary executives confront a series of inflection points, where received wisdom is no longer adequate. Read More     INSIDER The Grill: Aon's CIO embraces social media tools to connect 65,000 employees Aon's global CIO, Steve Betts, who led the integration of IT operations following Aon's $4.9 billion acquisition of Hewitt Associates, is using social media tools to help employees connect around key issues. Insider (registration required) Read More   Paul Glen: Motivating the mercenaries To get your projects done, you'll need to motivate your people to perform, no matter where their loyalties lie. Read More   Security Manager's Journal: Thousands of dollars in phone calls? Management hates that. Problem arose after a consultant made a configuration change, opening up control ports to the Internet, with no authentication required. Read More   Preston Gralla: With Comcast deal, say goodbye to the Internet as we've known it With little or no competition, Comcast will have little reason to increase speed or lower the cost of broadband, or any impetus to preserve Net neutrality. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   Exploring Business and IT Friction: Myths and Realities IT Organizations with passion for and actions around customer experience will lead the Service Revolution. Learn More>> Learn More Career Watch: Pay was down for CS grads last year, but IT workers find that money isn't everything Two surveys show that starting salaries for recent college graduates with computer science degrees has slipped, but pay might not be the most important factor for IT professionals when it comes to choosing jobs. Read More   MLB, Stores Make Location-based Pitches   Eager to learn more about what customers do on their premises, a growing number of businesses are hoping to gather data from visitors' mobile phones. Read More   Net Neutrality Ruling Spurs FCC to Set New Regs The FCC will not seek further judicial review of a January court ruling that struck down the agency's Net neutrality regulations, but it does plan to issue a new set of rules covering ISPs. Read More   Itanium Fades as New Xeon Chip Debuts The writing is on the wall for Intel's high-end Itanium processor line with the recent launch of the chip maker's 15-core Xeon E7 v2. Read More   Target Attack Reveals HVAC Vulnerabilities   The massive Target breach led to revelations that many companies use Internet-connected HVAC systems without adequate security, giving hackers a potential gateway to key corporate systems. Read More   California Fighting Drought With Tech With California in the midst of its worst drought in more than 100 years, conserving water has never been more important in the state, and several Silicon Valley companies and experts are working to develop technologies to help with that effort. Read More   Prospects Wane for Office on the iPad Analysts say the longer Microsoft waits to ship versions of Office for iOS and Android, the less likely it is that such a move will pay off. Read More
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