Karma? Microsoft's Nadella backtracks after comments on women pay lead to protests

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World's craziest Halloween coffinsl Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks Network World Daily News AM October 10, 2014 Karma? Microsoft's Nadella backtracks after comments on women pay lead to protests Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recommends that not asking for a pay raise is "good karma" for women, leading bosses to trust them and give them more responsibility.Nadella's remarks did not, however, go down well with the audience and the interviewer Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College and a Microsoft director, who told him she disagreed, citing her own experience. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. World's craziest Halloween coffinsl 2. Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks 3. Slow Internet? Edit your DNS settings 4. Review: Surface Pro 3 isn't really what enterprises want in a laptop 5. Analysts react to Symantec split announcement 6. Patch Tuesday: Windows, Internet Explorer need critical patches 7. Dairy Queen stores hit by 'Backoff' malware, payment card data stolen 8. Dell pushes laptop chip clock speed to 4.4GHz in Alienware 18 9. Apple sends out invites for Oct 16 special event 10. IPhone 6 Plus: Just in time for some very cool Halloween costumes : KnowBe4 Avoid the Nightmare of CryptoLocker Since September 2013, several ransomware strains are attacking end-users. You cannot just rely on your filters, you also have to train your end-users. Get a Quote for your organization now and your users trained ASAP. If your files get encrypted due to human error after your user steps through our training, KnowBe4 will pay the crypto-ransom. Learn more >> World's craziest Halloween coffinsl From KISS caskets to lions and airplanes, a plethora of burial boxes populate the world READ MORE Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks What's prompting many senior vice president-level executives to leave Cisco is the company's previously announced layoff of 6,000 employees, and a restructuring in the product development and engineering organization affecting 25,000 employees. Business Insider first wrote about the magnitude of the engineering restructuring earlier this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Slow Internet? Edit your DNS settings Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their simple email addresses? All this depends on DNS, or the Domain Name System. This is what lets your computer find macworld.com, keeping track of the fact that this domain name corresponds to an IP address of 70.42.185.230, and that numerical address is hosting Macworld's webpages. When you click on a link, your browser sends a request to a Web server to load a page, but that request passes through a DNS server, which stores this information in huge databases containing every single domain recorded listed together with its numerical address.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell | Symantec Strategies for Gaining Control and Securing Mobility We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Numbers of mobile devices are growing with some experts predicting that employees will be carrying three or more devices. Growth is not limited to just devices. As the number of enterprise apps rapidly expands, "an app for everything" is a slogan few would question. Learn More Review: Surface Pro 3 isn't really what enterprises want in a laptop There are a lot of good things to say about Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet. It's lightweight. It's got a big, crisp display. It supports any app Windows 7 does plus all the ones designed just for Windows 8.1. It's got a pen that's nicely integrated with Office apps. Microsoft says it's the tablet that can replace your laptop, and that's true, although it has some physical shortcomings that laptops don't. For example, it requires a kickstand to prop it up when it's in laptop mode, which introduces some problems of its own. + Also on Network World: Surface Pro 3: A great business desktop and a pretty good laptop, too |10 things you need to know about Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Analysts react to Symantec split announcement On Thursday, Symantec said that it would separate into two business units; one that focuses entirely on security, while the other sticks to information management.Symantec's announcement follows similar ones from Hewlett-Packard, which said they would spin off their PC and printer business into a new company called HP Inc., and eBay, which said that PayPal would be turned into a new publicly traded company.In a statement, Michael Brown, Symantec's president and CEO, said that separating would provide each business the flexibility and focus needed to drive growth and enhance shareholder value.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Free security tools you should try The concept of growth and value has been something Symantec has had to struggle with over the years. Many business leaders were left disappointed after Symantec's $10.2 billion acquisition of storage vendor Veritas in 2005.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Patch Tuesday: Windows, Internet Explorer need critical patches Windows and Internet Explorer need critical patches this month, according to Microsoft's advanced notification about Patch Tuesday bulletins for Oct. 14.In all there are nine bulletins, but three of them are ranked critical and could allow attackers to execute malicious code remotely, according to the notification. "These will be the top patching priorities, probably with the IE issue being the most at risk for exploitation," says Ross Barrett, senior manager of security engineering at Rapid7.+ Also on NetworkWorld: Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrities +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: Enterprise Management Associates Best Practices for Automation and Limiting Risk Everyone knows that effective network management practices start with establishing a full foundational understanding of the network. But simply monitoring individual elements can only get you so far. Learn More Dairy Queen stores hit by 'Backoff' malware, payment card data stolen Dairy Queen said Thursday the "Backoff" point-of-sale malware infected systems at 395 of its stores, stealing payment card data.The company, which has 4,500 independently owned franchises in the U.S., said in a statement it believes the "malware has been contained." Most of the stores, including one Orange Julius location, were affected for between three weeks to a month starting in early August, according to a list."We deeply regret any inconvenience this incident may cause," wrote CEO and President John Gainor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Dell pushes laptop chip clock speed to 4.4GHz in Alienware 18 Dell is cranking up laptop performance with an overclocked 4.4GHz Intel Core i7 chip in its new Alienware 18 laptop, which is targeted at gamers.The company on Thursday also announced an Alienware 17 laptop with optional Core i7 chips with clock speeds surpassing the 4.0GHz threshold. Processors running at that frequency are rare in laptops, though they can be found in gaming desktops.Higher clock speeds boost PC performance, and gamers typically overclock CPUs to run faster. Intel and Advanced Micro Devices consistently crank up desktop CPU clock speeds in an ongoing battle to gain the desktop performance crown.Over the past decade, chip makers reverted to adding more cores instead of cranking up clock speeds to balance system performance and power consumption. Laptop chips mostly operate at frequencies between 1.4GHz and 3GHz, and most users won't need 4GHz laptops. But gamers love the extra performance to run intense games.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Apple sends out invites for Oct 16 special event Apple next week is likely to announce a slew of new hardware READ MORE IPhone 6 Plus: Just in time for some very cool Halloween costumes Mark Rober and the DigitalDudz team have come up with some truly creative and creepy Halloween costumes, a number of which incorporate smartphones, to haunt your geeky graveyard or party.Some of the costumes, as Rober points out, even can take advantage of the new Apple iPhone 6 Plus! (H/T Devour)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell | Symantec Strategies for Gaining Control and Securing Mobility We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Numbers of mobile devices are growing with some experts predicting that employees will be carrying three or more devices. Growth is not limited to just devices. 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