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A six-figure salary is just the beginning for CIOs. Cash bonuses, stock awards and executive perks can propel pay packages into the millions. CIO salaries in the U.S. average between $153,000 and $246,750, according to Robert Half Technology. But salary is just the beginning. Cash bonuses and equity awards can […]
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Watson Analytics can answer questions business managers might have about their data On Tuesday, IBM launched a beta of Watson Analytics, an interactive Q&A service designed to answer questions and highlight trends within sets of enterprise data. The service “is about putting powerful analytics in the hands of every business […]
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Microsoft has begun a months-long rollout of Delve, the first Office 365 application that taps into the suite’s Office Graph machine learning capabilities and maps connections between co-workers, documents and information. Delve, announced in March with the code-name Oslo, is designed to automatically surface colleagues, files and data that are […]
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BlackBerry, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS take different approaches to staying alive. The smartphone operating system market is dominated by Android and iOS, but you can never count out Microsoft, so let’s say that Windows Phone, despite lagging in market share, rounds out the Big Three. That leaves four […]
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Mozilla has added small advertisements to the new tab page of Firefox’s roughest-edged build, the channel dubbed “Nightly” because it is updated each evening. The ads, which Mozilla’s calls “sponsored tiles,” were first discussed by Mozilla in February, but the initiative was criticized by Firefox users. The company, however, defended […]
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Our first glimpse of Windows 9 may be right around the corner, as the new rapid-fire Microsoft scrambles to put the stigma of Windows 8’s disastrous launch in the rear view mirror. MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 10 (FREE!) Microsoft tools to make admins happier Microsoft is set to officially unveil […]
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There’s still much that’s unclear about Tuesday’s revelation that a small group of hackers in Russia have amassed a database of 1.2 billion stolen user IDs and passwords. The company that disclosed the incident, Hold Security, didn’t offer any fresh information Wednesday, but here are five questions we’d like to […]
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If you stay at one of 11 brands of hotels in Hilton’s portfolio, you can choose your room online now; by 2015 you can bypass the front desk and use a smartphone to unlock the door to your hotel room. If you have an Apple or Android smartphone and stay […]
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Look to Vista for how Redmond will treat Windows 8 as it moves on to the next bright, shiny OS As talk of the next Windows begins to build and some details of what most are calling for now either Windows 9 or Threshold come into focus, it’s worthwhile to […]