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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

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Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Even where budget is available, some regions do not yet have the capacity to expand the WAN to meet the demand. Dr. Deepak Kumar founded Adaptiva in 2004. – bg. About the Author: .

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Book Excerpt: How Microsoft leverages employee giving to build a culture of purpose

GeekWire

[Editor’s Note: Akhtar Badshah, who led Microsoft’s philanthropic efforts from 2004 to 2014, writes about the roots and impact of the company’s giving campaign in his new book, “Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires Employees & Alumni to Change the World.” This excerpt is reprinted with permission.]. Akhtar Badshah.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Nobody likes to be treated like a line item on the budget. Of course, the industry has matured a lot since McConnell’s book was released in 2004, and everyone pretty much understands the need for the cogitating phase of software development. Measure the right outputs.

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Meta layoffs ripple through Seattle region, taking some of the luster from ‘Silicon Valley North’

GeekWire

However, in his memo this morning, Zuckerberg said the company would be making cuts across its business, “including scaling back budgets, reducing perks, and shrinking our real estate footprint.” Among the Bay Area titans, Google was among the first to establish a Seattle-area engineering office, way back in 2004.

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The Future of Reading: eReaders in the Digital Age

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ePaper was incorporated by Sony Group Corporation into their eReaders, Sony Librie, and Sony Reader, which started gaining prominence after being launched in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Price : Keeping in mind the features the eReader device offers, does the price seem justified and budget-friendly?

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SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell as Blue Origin’s CEO? New book about Jeff Bezos says she was asked

GeekWire

Bezos gave a big boost to Blue Origin’s budget and began a steady ramp-up of its workforce. Stone writes that Bezos bitterly complained about a proposed budget of $500 million in 2016. So what’s happened since then? Back in 2016 , Blue Origin had 600 employees. Now the headcount exceeds 3,500.

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Australia is becoming a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms: Freelancer.com, 99designs, DesignCrowd

Trends in the Living Networks

Freelancer.com , was founded in Sweden as getafreelancer.com in 2004. 99designs has clients set a design brief and budget, and then provide feedback to designers during the design phase, ultimately selecting a winner who is awarded the full budget. I first wrote about it in 2005 in an overview of the space.

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