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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Nobody likes to be treated like a line item on the budget.

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

CTOvision

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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The Future of Reading: eReaders in the Digital Age

Kitaboo

In 1997, E Ink Corporation developed the technology of ePaper, or electronic paper, a display screen that reflects light and resembles the look of ordinary paper imprinted with ink. Price : Keeping in mind the features the eReader device offers, does the price seem justified and budget-friendly?

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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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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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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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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

From the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 to the earthquakes in Chile, Haiti and Japan, awareness of disasters reaches around the globe in time measured in milliseconds. applications and platform for development of disaster-specific apps. tight federal, state and local IT budgets. lands nearby neighbors. disaster response.

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