CIOs rack up millions in incentives

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The last iPhone 6 rumor roundup: 11 predictions for Sept. 9 Apple liveblogs to swarm around iPhone 6, iWatch on Sept. 9 Network World Daily News AM September 09, 2014 CIOs rack up millions in incentives A six-figure salary is just the beginning for CIOs. Cash bonuses, stock awards and executive perks can propel pay packages into the millions. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. The last iPhone 6 rumor roundup: 11 predictions for Sept. 9 2. Apple liveblogs to swarm around iPhone 6, iWatch on Sept. 9 3. Devices featuring Intel's 'always listening' chips to start selling in October 4. Tech industry groups ask US Senate to 'swiftly pass' NSA curbs 5. DARPA targets complex software algorithm vulnerabilities 6. Malicious advertising hits Amazon, YouTube and Yahoo, Cisco says 7. OpenSSL warns vendors against using vulnerability info for marketing 8. Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems 9. Beefier servers pack more storage, DDR4 memory 10. How could I have missed Jenna Elfman? WHITE PAPER: Red Hat UNIX vs. Red Hat Linux and Your TCO Increasing line of business demands? Shrinking IT budget? See how Red Hat can help you meet growing. Read Now The last iPhone 6 rumor roundup: 11 predictions for Sept. 9 The iPhone Rumor Rollup presents 11 predictions on what Apple will announce tomorrow. Overall, the best guide for what Apple will announce is the overall pattern of Apple's past announcements. iPhone models For this, The Rollup likes the broad outline of the predictions, in a recent tweet, by Asymco's Horace Dediu. There will be a new "lead phone," the iPhone 6 with a 4.7-inch screen; a new "mid phone," the iPhone 6c, which will be, mainly, the innards and 4-inch screen of the current iPhone 5s, with a plastic body, and some improved hardware components (Wi-Fi, faster LTE etc.) found in the lead phone. The iPhone 5c will continue, as the new "entry phone" for 2014-15 and possibly the 4s model as well, as a still lower price point.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Apple liveblogs to swarm around iPhone 6, iWatch on Sept. 9 Apple Liveblogs of big Apple news events used to be kind of a big deal because press organizations with privileged access were able to share blow-by-blow accounts of the action to an audience that couldn't otherwise take part. But the newer, perhaps more open Apple led by Tim Cook, is inviting anyone with an Internet connection to join a livestream of the event, which starts at 10am Pacific Time/1am Eastern Time from The Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Calif. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Devices featuring Intel's 'always listening' chips to start selling in October If you ever wanted to interact with your PC, in hands-free Star Trek intelligent-personal-assistant sort of way, then you might not be creeped out by devices featuring Intel Core M chips that are 'always listening' for voice commands. The chips will be devices and available for purchase this holiday season. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More Tech industry groups ask US Senate to 'swiftly pass' NSA curbs Tech industry organizations have written a letter to leaders in the U.S. Senate, to ask them to swiftly pass the USA Freedom Act, legislation that is expected to end the collection of bulk domestic phone data by the National Security Agency.Disclosures about the U.S. government's surveillance programs since June 2013 have led to an erosion of public trust in the U.S. government and the U.S. technology sector, anti-software piracy group BSA, Computer and Communications Industry Association, Information Technology Industry Council, Reform Government Surveillance and the Software and Information Industry Association wrote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell on Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE DARPA targets complex software algorithm vulnerabilities Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it wants to develop sophisticated code that can find faults in key algorithms used to anchor major software packages that for example implement hash tables or conduct password checks. READ MORE Malicious advertising hits Amazon, YouTube and Yahoo, Cisco says Malicious advertisements have popped up on websites such as YouTube, Amazon and Yahoo, part of a sophisticated campaign to spread malware, Cisco said Monday.When encountered, the malicious advertisements cause a person to be redirected to a different website, which triggers a download based on whether the computer is running Windows or Apple's OS X, wrote Armin Pelkmann, a threat researcher.The network has been nicknamed "Kyle and Stan" due to those names appearing in subdomains of more than 700 websites the attackers have set up to distribute the malware, Pelkmann wrote."The large number of domains allows the attackers to use a certain domain just for a very short time, burn it and move on to use another one for future attacks," he wrote "This helps avoiding reputation and blacklist based security solutions."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM Quintillion Case Study Hedge fund administration company Quintillion doubles its asset and investor portfolio while keeping staff levels almost flat, by working with Insight 2 Value to deploy an efficient content management solution, based on IBM Case Manager. Read Now OpenSSL warns vendors against using vulnerability info for marketing Security advisories for OpenSSL should not be used for competitive advantage, according to the development project behind the widely used cryptography component.The warning comes from the OpenSSL Project, which has published for the first time guidelines for how it internally handles security problems, part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the project following the Heartbleed security scare in April.High severity issues such as remote code execution vulnerabilities will be kept private within OpenSSL's development team, ideally for no longer than a month until a new release is ready.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems Home Depot said Monday that its payment systems had been breached, potentially affecting any customers who shopped at its stores in the U.S. and Canada since April.There's no evidence yet that debit card PIN numbers had been compromised, the company said, though it was still figuring out the scope and scale of the attacks.Home Depot doesn't believe people who shopped online at HomeDepot.com, or at its physical stores in Mexico, were affected, it said.The company didn't specify what information tied to people's cards may have been compromised, and a spokeswoman declined to comment further.Home Depot made the announcement after nearly a week-long investigation conducted with IT security firms, banking partners and the Secret Service, it said. The investigation focused on the period from April onward.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Beefier servers pack more storage, DDR4 memory Chasing data-center trends, top server makers have made storage and memory capacity a priority in their new servers.Servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v3 server chips, code-named Grantley, were announced by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and IBM Monday. The servers were announced on the same day Intel debuted the chips, which are based on the Haswell microarchitecture.Intel has cranked up the core count to 18 on the new server chips, an improvement from 12 cores in predecessors. IBM said the new 18-core chip helps deliver 59 percent better database performance and 61 percent better virtualization performance than its predecessor, the E5-2600 v2 chip, which shipped last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How could I have missed Jenna Elfman? I really liked "Dharma & Greg," an ABC sitcom that ran from 1997 until 2002.OK, truth be told, I really liked Dharma, portrayed by actress Jenna Elfman.Yet despite that appreciation, I failed to recognize Elfman last week after watching (multiple times) and writing about this YouTube video chronicling AT&T's old "You Will" television ad campaign, which aired in 1994, or a few years before Dharma made Elfman a TV star: Paying closer attention was longtime Buzzblog reader George Grenley, who in an email otherwise packed with observations about '90s-era technology noted: "The woman tucking the baby in looks familiar (at 0:50). Future actress Jenna Elfman, maybe?"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Coresite 4 Advantages of Multi-Tenant Data Centers Increasing demands on IT are forcing organizations to rethink their data center options. 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