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11.18.09

Sectors in Which IT Salaries Are Holding Steady

Some industries are more recession-proof than others. In the current downturn, health care and government employment seem to be faring well when compared with other sectors. Back in March when I interviewed folks from online job boards Dice.com, CareerBuilder.com and staffing specialist Robert Half... More >

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11.19.09

Google and How Bad Hiring Practices Can Kill a Company

One of the annoying things I get to do is watch successful companies that should know better design in failure. I could argue that many of the problems Microsoft has faced this decade go back to bad hiring and internal job placement decisions it made last decade. I’m picking on Google today because... More >

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11.19.09

Fibre Channel for the Masses?

Isn't it interesting how the ever-shifting sands of technological development can turn long-held assumptions on their heads? Take the case of Fibre Channel. For years it was the gold standard of storage networking, embraced by top-tier enterprises as the only solution capable of providing the... More >

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Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability

This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.

Microsoft Releases Surface SDK

Microsoft officially released its Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition at its Professional Developers Conference 2009. The SDK is available for free for anyone who wants to develop on the device, however, a Microsoft Surface is required to deploy an application, says Ars Technica . According... More >

Dell Takes a Hit in Third Quarter

Dell reported profits for the third quarter fell 54 percent , which sent its stock price reeling. Bloomberg blamed lost market share and higher PC component costs. The PC maker reported net income of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of 15 percent. At a time when other tech companies -- Intel,... More >

Report: Chinese Cyber Spying Increasing

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says the Chinese government seems increasingly to be hacking U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to get useful data for its military, reports Reuters. The report notes that China is the most aggressive country engaging in espionage against the... More >

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