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Tech worker asks judge to reject settlement in Silicon Valley hiring case

One of the lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit that accused Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel of conspiring to suppress wages by not poaching each others' employees is firing back against a settlement reached last month....

14.05.2014

How to accelerate software development by harnessing the power of DevOps, agile and hybrid cloud

Software development teams and operations/system administrators have historically pushed each other in opposing yet complementary directions. While development teams focus on delivering new features to end users, operations personnel generally focus on software deployment, minimizing liabilities and risks, and optimizing performance and reliability. The natural friction between the two groups can create a productive balance, but oftentimes it causes obstacles, resentment and a loss of revenue. ...

14.05.2014

Hadoop 2.0 a step forward, but still a just framework for programmers

Back in the 1800s John Godfrey Saxe wrote a famous poem about six blind men trying to discover what an elephant is by touching a part and describing it. Saxe observes that, "each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong." Fast forward to today and we have a similar situation with Hadoop. Opinions about Hadoop are as varied - and sometimes as incorrect – as they were in the poem....

14.05.2014

Laid-off IBM workers allege age bias in lawsuit

Three former IBM employees laid off last year have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging they were victims of age discrimination. IBM denies the charge....

14.05.2014

How to Manage Millennials: Let Them Do Whatever They Want

In about 10 years, 75 percent of the workforce will be made of millennials. Fortunately, managing them is easy. Just give them space, freedom to make decisions and a creative workplace. Oh, and be sure to ask them how their day was....

14.05.2014

Facebook experiment helps battle man-in-the-middle attacks

Researchers at Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a detection tool for man-in-the middle attacks that security pros might find helpful in protecting corporate data....

14.05.2014

Net neutrality advocates flood FCC Twitter chat

A flood of Internet users and net neutrality advocates called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to enact strong net neutrality rules, with many participants in an agency-sponsored Twitter chat Tuesday advocating utility-style regulations for broadband providers....

14.05.2014

BlackBerry opens management of its smartphones to rivals

BlackBerry is allowing rivals AirWatch, Citrix, SAP and IBM to directly manage its smartphones with the Blackberry 10 operating system as part of its strategy to open up management of its devices to third parties....

14.05.2014

Microsoft: We're serious this time; XP's dead to us

It's Patch Tuesday for Microsoft, but Windows XP users aren't getting any of the security updates. Get used to it, the company says....

14.05.2014

Feds offer $15M for research on the next Internet

The National Science Foundation is investing $15 million to create a more robust, agile and secure Internet....

14.05.2014

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