8 tips for retaining IT talent: What makes you stay?

HTC One vs. Samsung Galaxy S4: Which phone should you buy? Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go ITworld Today May 02, 2013 Share this email 8 tips for retaining top IT talent How do you retain top IT talent in a competitive market? Is it money? Flexibility? Something else? IT recruiters and executives share their top eight suggestions for how you can keep developers, engineers and IT staff happy. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. HTC One vs. Samsung Galaxy S4: Which phone should you buy? 2. Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go 3. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of 'Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition' 4. Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance 5. EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy 6. Who is tracking you across the Web? Even the ad industry doesn't know 7. BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job 8. BlackBerry CEO unfairly mocked for questioning tablets' dominion 9. MIT entrepreneur automates e-commerce ordering process 10. From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born White Paper: Zetta Cloud-based enterprise-grade online backup If you're searching for a cloud storage provider, you're not alone. According to IDC, worldwide spending on public IT cloud is expected to approach $100 billion by 2016. Read Now HTC One vs. Samsung Galaxy S4: Which phone should you buy? Due for an upgrade? We break down the big differences between the Galaxy S4 and the One to help you decide which phone to get. READ MORE Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP. READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a copy of 'Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition' We've got 5 copies to give to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win! READ MORE Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance The performance of Amazon machine instances is sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and sometimes absolutely abysmal. READ MORE EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands. READ MORE Webcast: LogiAnalytics (formerly LogiXML) On-Demand KPIs & Interactive Data Visualizations in 30 Days Pareto needed to improve their overall dashboard and reporting capabilities in order to make data more useful for internal staff as well as external clients. Learn how Pareto was able to provide on-demand KPIs and enable their mobile workforce in less than 30 days. Join this live, interactive webinar Thursday, April 11, 2:00PM EDT to learn more. Register now. Who is tracking you across the Web? Even the ad industry doesn't know Web tracking has become so widespread that nobody knows who all these companies are or what data they're collecting. READ MORE BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job A Gartner study predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes. READ MORE BlackBerry CEO unfairly mocked for questioning tablets' dominion So what will the mobile market actually look like five years from now? READ MORE MIT entrepreneur automates e-commerce ordering process After trying to solve a problem he had while running another business, an MIT computer science student found himself launching a startup. READ MORE From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born This brand-new distro will likely use the Consort desktop for a classic experience. READ MORE Webcast: Lexmark International Are You Getting the Most Out of Managed Print Services? Learn from IDC's Angele Boyd and Lexmark's John Crandall on how to achieve the maximum benefits from MPS. Learn More BOOK GIVEAWAY New month, new books. Enter the drawings today! Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer DON'T MISS... 2013 IT Salary Survey: How does your salary compare? Salesforce, the pillow maker and the $125,000 AmEx bill Greatest comebacks in tech history What's your obsolete tech really worth on eBay? Here's a master list of over 700 free online courses from top universities Follow ITworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2013 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **