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Experienced IT Employees Can Expect Higher Salaries: Dice
Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, a career site for technology and engineering professionals. After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from…
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Growth Continues to Accelerate for Private Clouds
Just like the Energizer bunny, the adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. A case in point is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. While DynamicOps is the latest example of a rapidly growing cloud services company, it s by…
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AT&T Launches Cloud-Based UC Service
Many enterprises are looking to unified communications (UC) products to increase productivity and simplify communications. However, adoption of UC solutions has long been a challenge, both financially and technologically, for those wanting the most out of UC. AT&T is aiming to simplify the transition to UC with a cloud-based offering that eliminates much of the…
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IDC: Smartphone, Tablet Adoption Growing in Global SMB Market
Increased adoption and personal use of advanced technology is paying dividends for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) around the world as the consumerization of IT continues to expand, especially in developing countries, according to survey research from IT research firm IDC. The report found that SMBs in developing countries are much more likely to encourage…
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iPhone 4S, iPad Drive Record Sales for Apple
Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads during its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which ended Dec. 31. That suggests a particularly strong holiday selling season for the company; the iPhone number, for example, was well above the 30.2 million units predicted by many analysts. Overall, quarterly revenue totaled $46.33 billion, with a…
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iPad Gets Avaya’s Flare Communicator Technology
Avaya is extending Flare Communicator technology beyond its own Flare tablet hardware, beginning with the launch of a version of the software for the popular Apple iPad tablet. The announcement of the iPad version of the user interface follows on prior announcements of PC and smartphone versions. The mobile collaboration application is available to iPad…