Study for Cisco's IT certification exams with this $39 prep training

With hundreds of digital businesses launching each year, the demand for certified IT professionals to implement IT infrastructure and security systems is steadily increasing. As such, IT is a stable field with plenty of room for career advancement. However, there are dozens of IT certifications to choose from, many of which cater to vendor-specific technologies.

Cisco is one such vendor whose technologies are used in IT solutions all around the world; you can prepare for some of Ciscomost popular certification exams with this $39 bundle.

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Google just quietly gave us a killer midrange Android option

We've talked about how Google is playing its own game with its software-centric approach to the Pixel program, but one factor that's all too easy to overlook is the way that same mindset is now spreading from the flagship level to other parts of the Android phone spectrum.

Allow me to set the stage: With its Pixel phones, as we've seen now with three different generations of the device, Google is embracing the reality everyone else is ignoring and focusing primarily on the importance of software in the phone-using experience. Sure, each new set of Pixel products has the usual set of hardware updates and internal improvements, but the true selling points are less about megapixels or bezels and more about how the phone's bits and bytes push the experience forward in genuinely useful ways.

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IDG Contributor Network: Share your ideas for battling wireless telemarketing scam calls

Telemarketing and scam calls are spreading to your wireless phone. Everyone thinks they are a pain in the neck, but still they are continuing to grow. I&m sure you have noticed these calls have spread from your home or office phone to your cell phone. In fact, by next year, First Orion says it is expected that nearly half of all calls on our wireless phones will be from telemarketers or scammers. Lettake a closer look at whathappening. Is there any way we can protect ourselves

Telemarketers have been bugging us on our home and office phones for decades. Wireless was a welcome escape. Those days are coming to an end. Telemarketers are now targeting the wireless world. That means we are getting an increasing number of these waste-of-time calls or even threats on our smartphones.

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Interview: SAP talks about its 100,000+ Apple devices

Apple is in the enterprise, and thereample proofat Jamf's annualJNUCevent, the worldlargest gathering of Apple administrators where CIOs of some of the worldbiggest businesses are gathered to discuss Mac and iOS in the enterprise.

Apple is now big in business

Jamf CEO Dean Hager told me in an interview:

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Blockchain developer salaries now command as much as $175K

The demand for blockchain engineers or software developers has continued to skyrocket over the past year and salaries for those positions are growing in lockstep.

The mediansalary for a blockchain developer is now $127,000, with experienced individuals commanding upwards of $172,000 when they move to new organizations, according to Janco Associates, a management consulting firm that conducts regular salary surveys.

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"ERP and Blockchain jobs are in great demand. Individuals can look forward to salaries continuing to increase," Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis said via email.

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Sysadmin is tapped to take control of the lead on patching this company's Linux systems, but something seems to be missing out on, reports a pilot fish on the scene. There was existing documents for the patching process, fish states. But according to the other sysadmin, that documentation never ever worked. And the web server that hosts the local Linux repository does not seem to work either. It reacts to a ping, but when my associate used a port scanner, he found that none of the needed ports-- for http, https and NFS-- were open. Then he discovered there was no directory site for repository information where it should be, and the software to handle HTTP and NFS wasn't even set up.

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