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Getting compensation right has been a nagging problem with tech professionals for a very long time. I’ve spent a few columns exploring aspects of why employers will pay their tech workers extra cash for a skill or certification when they're already paying them a salary and annual bonus.

Ten years since Apple’s iPhone went on sale, here are eleven ways the device has profoundly transformed the enterprise.

Steve Jobs would be proud of this one.

10 years after the iPhone debuted, on June 28 of 2007, the smartphone that started it all is still going strong. From the latest sales figures I’ve seen, the phone has sold well over 1 billion units worldwide. Statista claims there are 2.2 million apps in the app store.

My own fascination with the “Jesus phone” (as it was called) started on launch day. I was one of those people who happened to obtain one from Apple on the day of release, then wrote about it that same week. Читать дальше...

Technologists have always been drawn to bright and shiny objects. That's why mobile development has focused on geolocation, streaming video, biometrics and impressive app gymnastics. But the core of the mobile phone — at it's heart, it is a telephone, capable of making voice calls — has generally been ignored. As Zappos has discovered, that can be very bad for business.

If only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive.—Lew Platt, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard

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This company adopts one of those employee incentive programs where, if you come up with an idea that increases revenue, you'll get a percentage of the increased profits for the next year, reports an IT pilot fish on the inside.

Businesses that remain wedded to Office 2007 have just over three months to drop Office 2007's applications and switch to a newer suite, such as Office 2016.