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InfoWorld: Recruiting firm CyberCoders has released a list of the ten cities in the U.S. that pay IT workers the best. No surprise, San Jose, Calif., came in first with a median salary of $120,000. The entire top ten included the following: San Jose, Calif. San Francisco New York Washington, D.C. Boston Los Angeles Brooklyn, […]

PCMag: Dell has purchased California-based software maker Wyse Technology for an undisclosed sum. Wyse offers thin and zero-client solutions, as well as desktop virtualization and cloud computing software. “Desktop virtualization can help organizations streamline IT management, improve productivity and security, and increase cost efficiency for discrete workloads or usage scenarios,” said Dell’s Jeff Clarke. “Wyse’s […]

Wall Street Journal: Credit card payment processing company Global Payments has admitted that hackers breached its networks, potentially exposing personal data for hundreds of thousands of credit card users. The company is still investigating the hack attack, but said it had “identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system” and “determined […]

The New York Times: A new report from security firm Trend Micro details extensive hack attacks against Japanese, Indian and Tibetan organizations. It links those attacks to the alias “scuhkr,” which is owned by a Chinese man named Gu Kaiyuan. Gu formerly studied at Sichuan University, in Chengdu, China, which receives funding for research into […]

Cnet: A group of engineers meeting in Paris agree that the Web should be faster, but they haven’t yet agreed on how to accomplish their goal. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) heard presentations on recommendations for HTTP 2.0 from Microsoft, Google and others. Google has already begun using a technology known as SPDY, and […]

Los Angeles Times: At Apple’s request, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) has completed an audit of one of the company’s Chinese suppliers, but the results were not what Apple hoped to see. The FLA report cited “significant issues,” including excessive overtime, problems with overtime pay and health and safety violations at factories operated by Foxconn. […]

Wall Street Journal: For its fourth fiscal quarter, BlackBerry-maker RIM reported a loss of $125 million, down from income of $934 million the previous year. Revenue fell 25 percent year-over-year, hitting just $4.19 billion. Sales were down 21 percent, as the company shipped 11.1 million smartphones and only 500,000 of its PlayBook tablets. As a […]

Computerworld: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its biennial employment forecasts, and this year’s report has some good news for IT workers. The agency predicts that employment in all computer-related fields will grow 22 percent through 2020. Some job titles will do even better, for example software developers (28-32 percent growth), database administrators […]

InformationWeek: Market research firm IDC foresees a day when Microsoft’s Windows will no longer be the dominant operating system. If you lump PCs and mobile devices together, Microsoft Windows accounted for 35.9 percent of the “smart connected devices” market, compared to 29.4 percent for Google’s Android and 14.6 percent for Apple’s iOS. By 2016, IDC […]

MSNBC: A new report from Nielsen shows that smartphones are continuing to surge in popularity. The firm said that 49.7 percent of mobile subscribers in the U.S. now have smartphones, an increase from 36 percent a year ago. Among people who have purchased a new cell phone in the last three months, two-thirds opted for […]

Ars Technica: Red Hat has become the first company that makes its money primarily from open source technology to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. For its fourth fiscal quarter, the firm reported $297 million in revenue, a 21 percent year-over-year increase. The put total revenue for the year at $1.13 billion with net income […]

Wall Street Journal: Shawn Henry, who is leaving his position as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top cyber cop to take a job in the private sector, said that U.S. is doing a poor job of securing its networks. “We’re not winning,” he candidly explained. Henry added, “I don’t see how we ever come out […]