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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 at one of 11 brands…
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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 take a moment to remember…
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Dropbox for Business announces useful new control and collaboration features, but feature creep threatens to mar the service’s trademark simplicity. This morning, Dropbox announced a slew of new security, search, and developer features for its Dropbox for Business file-storage and sharing product. The new features come on top of the company’s recent release of Streaming…
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The typical organization loses 5% of its revenues to fraud by its own employees each year, with most thefts committed by trusted employees in executive management, operations, accounting, sales, customer service or purchasing, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). This type of malicious behavior by “privileged users” who have been given broad…
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Median CEO pay climbed 9% to $13.9 million last year, but some tech leaders saw their pay slashed. Spectacular pay raises keep widening the gap between what CEOs earn and what average workers take home. But not all CEOs got a raise last year. We examined 62 tech CEOs’ compensation — including salary, bonuses, stock…
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Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification is an entry-level certification and it is recommended to those people who want to start their career in the field of IT. This certification validates that the candidates have a basic understanding of the IT fundamentals, and that they can pursue their career in IT infrastructure, Database Design or Software…
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Best Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com Don’t get too comfy with Windows 8.1. Soon after Update 1 was released, announcements and rumors arose about what’s coming in the next version of Windows (“Windows 9” for the lack of an official name.) The earliest we might see a beta is spring 2015, but…
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One mistake in understanding the nature of the threats to your enterprise can have dire consequences, says Accuvant’s Jason Clark There is a scene in HBO’s adaption of Game of Thrones where a character counsels the king to dismiss the rising power of one of his rivals because “curiosities on the far side of the…
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Google is well-known for building its own server hardware to meet the unique needs of its massive compute network, but that won’t always be the case, the head of its infrastructure team said Wednesday. Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment As cloud deployments…
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When a eBay suffered a massive data breach a few weeks ago, most of the attention revolved around the compromise of passwords and the vulnerabilities in the site’s security. While those are legitimate concerns, they obscure the most glaringly weak link in the security chain: people. Indeed, it was not a sophisticated exploit that facilitated…