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Anyone who has been a manager in a company of a reasonable size understands the concept of corporate culture. Investopedia refers to corporate culture as "the beliefs and behaviors that determine how a company's employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions." It is a pretty important concept if you want a thriving organization. To give you an idea of the importance I place on cultural fit, anyone I seriously considered for a position in the past 12 years had to complete... Читать дальше...

When Microsoft kicks off its annual developers conference Wednesday, it must show it has made progress on 2015's promises, analysts said today.

Written by Google Executive Chairman/ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg, "How Google Works" currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 320 people (see reviews). List price is $30.00, but with the current 44% discount it can be purchased for $16.85 (See on Amazon). 

Instagram plans to kill its chronological feed, leading to user uproar, panic and general FUD. And the flap has led to a flood of irritating celebs asking followers to 'turn on notifications,' causing yet more stress and anger.

Oil company Total has almost tripled the performance of Pangea, a supercomputer it uses for analyzing subsurface imaging in search of new oilfields.

IT pros have long been concerned about the potential for security breaches with increased employee use of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets owned by workers who bring in their own devices from home.

The first Ubuntu-based convergence tablet is finally here.

Ubuntu-maker Canonical and BQ, an electronics maker based in Spain, opened the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition for preorder today, with global shipping prices starting at €259.90 (about $291). The devices are slated to start shipping in early April.

Protip: If you’re ordering the Ubuntu Tablet, make sure you click through to BQ from Canonical’s tablet devices page to get the worldwide pricing and shipping options.

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I've been thinking a lot about thumbs lately.

Why, you might wonder? Simple: Whenever I watch unsuspecting strangers use their phones in public (it's not as creepy as it sounds, I swear), I can't help but notice how many people rely solely on their thumbs for on-screen typing.

Me? I've never been a two-thumb typing man myself. I'm also not a full-time swiper, which is another increasingly common type of mobile tech typist you see in the wild these days.

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I stood by myself in a darkened hallway.

The walls looked like a cross between a jail cell and a slime pit. Everything was arranged in perfectly perpendicular angles, and there was one soldier frozen in the center of the room, never flinching. I walked around, stunned a bit by the silence and the lack of motion. It was 1993, and I was playing an early demo version of the first-person shooter Doom. The gameplay was not quite ready. There were no animations yet, and I was moving around as a lifeless void controlling a camera. Читать дальше...

One thing you can say about AppDirect, the company that powers a number of the biggest application marketplaces on the Web: Its timing is pretty impeccable.

Antivirus firm Bitdefender has released a free tool that can prevent computers from being infected with some of the most widespread file-encrypting ransomware programs: Locky, TeslaCrypt and CTB-Locker.

Easter hasn’t been a happy holiday for Apple as a bug-laden software upgrade means users will think twice before they upgrade their devices, and a move by a third party to break device security for a US law enforcement team that likes to call personal privacy a “marketing gimmick”.

Our most recent article on this site identified IT's top four communication challenges and suggested means for overcoming them.

The indictment of seven Iranian hackers for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions and hacking a dam was infuriating because it assigned blame to the wrong parties.

Computerworld's 30th annual IT Salary Survey was administered via the Internet. Both Computerworld digital magazine subscribers and visitors to Computerworld.com were included in the survey.

Computerworld's 2016 IT Salary Survey shows continued strong gains for IT pros. More than 70% of the 3,301 respondents reported a pay raise this year, marking the sixth year in a row that figure has risen since hitting a low of 41% in 2010. Likewise, only 3% reported a pay cut for 2016, down from a high of 14% in 2009.

The numbers paint a pretty rosy financial picture for IT professionals. After a respectable 3.6% rise in 2015, IT compensation is up again this year, according to Computerworld's 2016 IT Salary Survey results.

Paychecks get pumped

Tech pros reported strong pay gains in Computerworld's 30th annual IT Salary Survey. We polled 3,300 IT professionals — 43% managers and 57% in technical staff positions.

On the whole, the financial news has been good for IT professionals. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that IT employment grew 3.1% in 2015, and 44% of IT managers who participated in Computerworld's 2016 IT Salary Survey said they expect to expand their IT staffs this year.

An IT veteran with more than 40 years of experience, George Craft got his start in the technical trenches and eventually crossed over to management, earning choice certifications along the way to advance his career. His first credential — a Certified Data Processor designation in the late 1970s — gave him credibility as a "computer guy" at a time when IT was a fledgling field, he says.

For the second year running, IT pay gains are strong. Our survey of 3,300 tech pros reveals whose salaries are beefiest -- and how you can add muscle to yours.

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Technical writer pilot fish is working with the Desktop Support team, and as soon as a new version of iOS is released, support guy has fish immediately update his iPhone.