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India to see 10 per cent salary increase in 2017: Survey NEW DELHI: Salaries are expected to rise by 10 per cent in 2017, while star performers will attract much more as companies are discernibly prioritising such employees, says a report. According to the 2016 Salary Budget Planning (Q3) Report released by global advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson, salaries in India are projected to rise 10 per cent in 2017, same as the actual increase in 2016. Once average inflation for India of 5.7 per cent is taken into account, the projected increase in real terms for 2017 will be 4.3 per cent, down by a fraction from 4.4 per cent in 2016. The report noted that with tighter salary increase budgets, organisations are prioritising their top performers. Similar to trends in the Asia Pacific region, the report indicates that in India, 38 per cent of the budget for salary increase goes to top performers. Another 34 per cent is shared by above-average performers whi

Web of Trust (WOT) Add-on taken down by Chrome & Firefox WOT is one of the most trusted and popular add-ons used by millions of users worldwide to check the safety ratings of the websites. German news site recently reported that the add-on is malicious and can remotely execute the arbitrary commands on any web page browsed by the users including privileged browser pages. While WOT hands over the users’ data in an anonymized form, it can be severely critical. As per the analysis reported by Rob, Security Technology student and AMO editor working on Firefox WebExtensions, WOT can also steal the banking credentials of the users besides installing a malware in their system. Downloaded for more than 140 million times, the extension WOT collects and sells the information like user ID, web address, location, time and date. Among other things, data stored by WOT also include the travel details of users, sexual preferences as well as illness of users. This information is sold

Angular 3 is hot on the heels of Angular 2 Angular 3 will have better tooling and will generate less code; Google also is promising a new major version twice a year     Fresh from the long-awaited release of its Angular 2 JavaScript framework in mid-September, Google will release Angular 3 in a few short months. Expected in March, Angular 3 will focus on improved tooling and a reduction in generated code, said Rob Wormald, of the Angular core team and a developer advocate at Google. It will feature a template compiler that provides feedback in an IDE on errors in a template, and it will generate 25 percent less code, thanks to improved compilation and changes in the framework's underlying mechanics. [ Use JavaScript in your dev shop? InfoWorld looks at  17 JavaScript editors and IDEs  and  22 JavaScript frameworks  ready for adoption. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld's  Application Development newsletter . ] While more than two years passed b

Xiaomi Mi MIX Launched: Price, Specifications, Release Date, and More Xiaomi at its Beijing event on Tuesday launched the Mi MIX concept smartphone, a limited edition handset made in collaboration with French designer Philippe Stark. To recall, the company also  launched  the  Mi Note 2 . The smartphone is up for pre-order now,  and will become available to buy from November 4. It is available in two variants  – 4GB RAM/ 128GB storage at CNY 3,499 (roughly Rs. 34,500), and 6GB RAM/ 256GB storage (plus 18k gold trim on the rear camera and fingerprint sensor, as seen below) at CNY 3,999 (roughly Rs. 39,500). The highlight of the  Xiaomi Mi MIX  is its near bezel-less display with curved edges on top,  and the company is touting a 91.3 percent screen-to-body ratio. It also bears a ceramic body.  Another highlight is the piezoelectric acoustic ceramic earpiece speaker, as well as the ultrasonic proximity sensor rather than the traditional front-facing infrared sensor. The