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5 Reasons To Raise CIO's Pay
Mar 10, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
The 30-year-old CIO of a Chicago-area public school district has a salary of $96,000 and until recently earned an additional $24,000 by serving as school-board treasurer. When the district's teachers accepted pay cuts due to budget limitations, they carped about the $24,000 stipend—so the CIO gave it up, but requested the board consider increasing his salary. Here are 5 reasons why he deserves a big raise.

Microsoft Cloud Gets $1 Billion Delivery From Domino's
Mar 9, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Last month, Domino's Pizza online-orders revenue topped $1 billion since the new channel was launched. With online orders now accounting for 20% of Domino's total revenue and that, uh, slice of the revenue pie expected to grow, Domino's wants to put it all in Microsoft's cloud. But Microsoft's not ready yet, and it appears that the "all-in" strategy needs to stay in the oven a bit longer.

Cisco To Add 5,500 New Jobs In North Carolina
Mar 5, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Cisco CEO John Chambers says he wants to add more than 5,500 new jobs at the Research Triangle Park, which would give Cisco 10,000 employees at what Chambers called its East Coast headquarters. Also coming to RTP: a $100 million data center/development hub for strategic technologies.

Desktops Irrelevant? Oh, That It Could Be So
Mar 4, 2010
Posted by Chris Murphy
SiliconRepublic quotes a Google Europe exec saying "desktops will be irrelevant in three years." CIOs can only dream that some device, any device, would actually go away.

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