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February 8, 2012

Nokia Plans to Cut 4,000, Shift Assembly to Asia

After posting a fourth quarter operating loss of $1.25 billion, Nokia has announced that it will cut 4,000 manufacturing jobs . The cuts will affect plants in Hungary, Mexico and Finland, which will... More >

February 7, 2012

App Development Offers Bright Spot in Still-Weak Economy

Our Susan Hall pointed out last November that mobile app development was the place to be if you wanted to “write your own ticket” in the tough economy. An Associated Press article in the Chicago S... More >

February 1, 2012

Microsoft Expected to Announce Layoffs

Several sites are reporting that Microsoft is set to announce a round of layoffs today. The reported 200 layoffs are expected to hit the marketing department as a result of restructuring. Forbes ’ ... More >

Break The "Add More Nodes" Cycle: IBM Netezza Data Warehouse Appliances Allow Your Data Infrastructure to Scale

This white paper explores the reasons so many customers have begun to incorporate high-performance, IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances into their existing teradata infrastructures and the performance and scalability benefits this approach has provided.

Unified Communications Buyer's Guide

This buyer's guide offers complete information to help you compare your unified communications (UC) options, including guidance on evaluating a solution's ease of use, total cost of ownership, and reliability.

January 27, 2012

Federal CTO Chopra Stepping Down

In yet another executive shake-up , U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra has decided to step down from his post . An official announcement is expected at some point today. Chopra was formerl... More >

Rubinstein Leaves HP

Jon Rubinstein, a senior vice president of HP’s PC business, has left the company . Rubinstein was previously a chief executive at Palm and had joined HP when it acquired Palm for $1.2 billion in Ap... More >

January 18, 2012

Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Leaves

TIME Techland reports that Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang is stepping down and leaving the fledging Internet company. Yang co-founded the company 17 years ago with David Filo. The news comes two weeks ... More >

January 10, 2012

Stocks Push Cook’s 2011 Pay to $378 Million

It’s being reported in Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple CEO Tim Cook will receive a pay package worth $378 million for 2011 — one of the biggest pay packages on record.   His base salary and ... More >

November 11, 2011

Wipro Reorg Combines Global, Indian IT Businesses

Wipro Technologies is consolidating its global and Indian IT units into a single Global Infrastructure and Services unit . A mydigitalfc.com report includes a statement from Wipro Executive Direct... More >

October 20, 2011

CIOs, CEOs Have Differing Views on Staffing

Two Gartner surveys administered in 2010 highlight a gap in how CEOs and other senior executives view talent management and how CIOs do. As Diane Berry, a managing vice president in Gartner's CIO &am... More >

October 11, 2011

ThinkSolutions: Mexico Is Top Nearshore Option for U.S.

Mexico landed at the top of a new ranking of Latin American nearshoring options compiled by consulting company ThinkSolutions, thanks largely to NAFTA and to its shared border with the U.S. Mexico h... More >

October 5, 2011

ACS Beefs up Financial Services Offerings with Symcor Buy

ACS, the outsourcing provider purchased by Xerox for $6.4 billion in 2009, is buying the U.S. operations of Symcor, which specializes in providing outsourcing services for financial institutions. F... More >

September 28, 2011

Electronics Giant Best Buy Plans to Cut Holiday Hiring

The Washington Business Journal 's Ed Stych reports that Best Buy plans on hiring half the temporary holiday workers it hired last year — from 29,000 to 15,000 — and increasing the hours of regula... More >

September 26, 2011

Weakening Rupee No Longer a Big Deal for Indian Outsourcers?

Generally speaking, a weak dollar makes it less financially compelling for U.S. companies to purchase services from foreign companies. The usual strategy is to purchase goods and services from countr... More >

August 25, 2011

Bank's Contractor Rates Exposed

Staffing firm Hays is in hot water with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) after a staffer sent out an email with full pay details of 3,000 contractors at the bank, according to CIO.co.uk . The bank has b... More >

Facebook Turns to Stack Overflow for Developer Forums

Stack Overflow, a site where employers like to see developers who have been involved in outside projects, is teaming up with Facebook. Actually, Facebook plans to ditch its developer forums in favor... More >

Human Capital Management

Tips, tools, and expert commentary to help you get the most from your company's most valuable asset - its employees.

NAS & SAN Storage

Oracle offers a complete portfolio of best-of-breed storage products and business-ready storage solutions that optimize performance, maximize data protection and reduce the total cost of ownership for Oracle databases, applications, and heterogeneous data management.

Database Management

Data management tips and techniques that insure ease of access, comprehensive security and absolute privacy for your invaluable company information.

Tape and Archive Storage

Oracle’s proven StorageTek tape and library solutions help you manage complexity, control costs, and deliver on service level agreements.