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The next time "sincerely" won't do while writing to a prospective employer on LinkedIn, how about you try closing that cover letter with a big, round smiley face?

U.S. IT salaries rose by 4.25 percent in 2014, the largest increase in six years, according to a survey from IEEE-USA.

People testing the latest versions of Windows 10 in Japan, Canada, Australia and India will soon be receiving a visit from Microsoft's virtual assistant, Cortana.

Some are worried about embattled New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady taking a marketability and endorsements hit as a result of the NFL's ill-conceived Deflategate investigation into whether the player encouraged team personnel to mess around with footballs before a game. But let's focus on the positive NFL marketing story: Wireless carrier T-Mobile suddenly has a huge marketing opportunity to sync up with another Tyrod Taylor, newly named starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills.

Windows 10 in August set a record for a one-month increase in user share for any operating system, an analytics firm said today.

Now that Windows 10 is a full month old, usage statistics from firms like StatCounter and NetApplications are starting to roll in. So far, there’s good news and bad news.

Many high-profile tech companies and startups are known for their attractive employee benefits packages and working arrangements--things that help ensure they attract and retain top talent. When it comes to work-life balance and overall satisfaction, however, not all companies score well with their workers.

Government CIOs have been struggling mightily with developing prudent policies to enable employees to use their personal mobile devices for work without putting sensitive information at risk or otherwise compromising the security of agency systems.

Ten years ago, the Gulf Coast was completely devastated by Hurricane Katrina, leaving thousands of businesses in New Orleans and the surrounding area under water and without power for weeks.

A new tool from SAP will allow companies to analyze distributed Hadoop data alongside corporate data using the ERP giant's Hana in-memory computing platform.

It’s rare that the chairman of the board of directors of a public company reports to the company CEO. It’s rarer still that a board director reports to the CEO – the CEO typically reports to the board of directors.

BIG MONEY FOR BIG DATA

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So many big data and analytics-focused startups are getting funding these days that I’ve been inspired to compile a second slideshow highlighting these companies (see “13 Big Data and Analytics Companies to Watch” for the previous collection). This new batch has reined in some $250 million this year as they seek to help organizations more easily access and make sense of the seemingly endless amount of online data.

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In a couple of weeks, around 150,000 people will converge on San Francisco for DreamForce, Salesforce's annual customer conference and extravaganza (disclosure - Salesforce is covering my travel and expenses to attend the event). Last year, Salesforce introduced a lightweight analytics product that many people pointed out was more of a visualization tool than anything else.

If your Wi-Fi network is using the popular Belkin N600 DB router, be warned: it may have several vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to take it over.

In what is a symbiotic relationship for both companies, VMware and Google have expanded their partnership in the IaaS cloud market this week.

As of today, Google's Chrome browser will automatically pause ads that use Flash by default. Most Flash ads were converted to HTML5 and those HTML5 ads will still work. Flash can quickly suck the power from a laptop battery, but even worse is the never-ending supply of Flash vulnerabilities.

Ericsson is working on LTE with faster upload speeds, as well as using unlicensed spectrum to speed up downloads and customizing the technology for Internet of Things applications.

It's a truism that people—especially young people—spend a lot less time talking on the phone now than they once did. I don't have good numbers to cite, but the personal and anecdotal evidence seems pretty compelling. Where once I made and received dozens of calls a day, those have now been reduced to just a few. I roll over so many minutes on my mobile plan it feels like I could talk nonstop for the rest of the year and not run out. But I probably won't.

Here in New England, the biggest non-Deflategate news surrounding the Patriots was yesterday’s announcement from Dunkin’ Donuts that Rob Gronkowski, the team’s star Tight End, would be providing his voice to GPS app Waze as part of a Dunkin Donuts/Waze partnership. In addition to providing driving directions, traffic conditions and other reports (such as hazards on the road, accidents and other traffic situations), Gronkowski’s voice is supposed to “remind users about Dunkin’ Donuts locations... Читать дальше...

If you ever had the inkling that your presence on social media was giving away your game, you'd be absolutely correct. A Stanford behavioral professor says he has developed computer models to find links between social media users' online activity and their real-life personalities.

Everybody loves wireless: It's the main impetus driving technology innovation and social and business communications today, and it will continue to drive innovation for years to come. Yet an under-appreciated reality is that wireless is very dependent on wired connections. In fact, wireless is only as good as the wires that support it.

Malware that runs inside GPUs (graphics processing units) can be harder to detect, but is not completely invisible to security products.

Google-owned Nest is releasing a new version of its thermostat that has a larger display and is a little smarter than its predecessor.

Microsoft released a new set of tools on Monday to help developers make slick-looking add-ins for Office apps, at a time when the company wants to boost the ecosystem of third-party applications and services that work with its productivity suite.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a program that will launch and recover volleys of small unmanned aircraft from one or more existing large airplanes such as B-52s, B-1s or C-130s.