The best places to work in IT in 2014

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	The best places to work in IT in 2014 Looking for hot technologies, abundant training, killer benefits and strong career development? Here's where you want to work. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ConnectIT Free Pass: Attend ConnectIT Atlanta - July 16 Computerworld invites you to ConnectIT, a NEW peer networking forum with sessions surrounding Mobile, Collaboration and Document Management. The event takes place on Wednesday, July 16 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. : Register today for free at: http://www.cwconnectit.com/atlanta In this Issue The UPC barcode arrived 40 years ago; now, they're ubiquitous How we chose the Best Places to Work in IT Video: What IT employees want, and what best employers deliver OS X Snow Leopard desertion rate accelerates after patches stop The Internet of Things figures into this IT leader's five-year plan Yosemite's 'Handoff' will work only on Macs less than 2-3 years old SC500: China wins a slowing supercomputer race Google's Nest pays $555M to acquire home camera maker Dropcam Why you shouldn't buy the Amazon Fire phone FCC proposes $1B per year for Wi-Fi in schools ARM 64-bit chips move beyond iPhone into servers Court grants NSA an extension to collect bulk phone data Prisoners freed after Dallas cops struggle with new records software Nvidia abandons 64-bit Denver chip for servers RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: PC Connection, Inc. 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Compensation and benefits, sure, but that's just the beginning of the list. Read More   OS X Snow Leopard desertion rate accelerates after patches stop The decline of OS X Snow Leopard has accelerated in the last three months, perhaps because users now know that Apple has stopped patching the five-year-old OS. Read More   The Internet of Things figures into this IT leader's five-year plan Chris LeBeau, IT director at Advanced Technology Services, is shutting down several outdated systems, migrating users and switching to a more modern business architecture. Read More   Yosemite's 'Handoff' will work only on Macs less than 2-3 years old Apple's "Handoff" -- one of the key new features of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite -- will work only on newer Macs that support Bluetooth 4.0 and the Bluetooth LE (low energy) technology. Read More   SC500: China wins a slowing supercomputer race China continues to dominate the high end of the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, even as the growth of the computing power on the list seems to be stagnating. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP Protecting Your Mid-Size Business from Security Threats Security breaches in large enterprises make the headlines, but 55% of small and mid-size businesses have also experienced a data breach. And 60% of small businesses fail within six months of falling victim to a cyber attack. Learn More Google's Nest pays $555M to acquire home camera maker Dropcam Nest, the Internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector maker owned by Google, is acquiring home security system developer Dropcam as part of a push to connect a wider range of devices in people's homes. Read More   Why you shouldn't buy the Amazon Fire phone Amazon and its Fire phone are capable of the most comprehensive and aggressive personal data harvesting ever offered in any product. The company needs to be far more transparent about what the phone actually does, and how Amazon protects all this data. Read More   FCC proposes $1B per year for Wi-Fi in schools U.S. schools could get a cool billion to set up Wi-Fi networks to connect more than 10 million more students by the 2015-2016 school year under a new FCC proposal. Read More   ARM 64-bit chips move beyond iPhone into servers Breaking from the cocoon of the iPhone 5S, 64-bit ARM processors will start delivering breakthrough performance in servers, aided by graphics cards used in some of the world's fastest computers. Read More   Court grants NSA an extension to collect bulk phone data The U.S. National Security Agency has been allowed to continue to collect phone records in bulk of people in the country, while lawmakers consider new legislation that would block the agency from collecting the data. Read More   Prisoners freed after Dallas cops struggle with new records software Police in Dallas are scrambling after snafus involving a new records management system caused more than 20 jail inmates, including a number of people charged with violent crimes, to be set free. Read More   Nvidia abandons 64-bit Denver chip for servers Nvidia has cancelled plans to develop a 64-bit CPU processor for servers, three years after it said it would build such a chip. Read More
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