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IT salaries are shrinking in this economy, according to a semi-annual survey by Janco Associates . Those at midsize companies took the most heat , according to Visual Studio Magazine . At c... More >
Cisco has announced its highest certification ever , one that could pave the way for a network engineer to land in the executive board room, according to searchNetworking.com . According to ... More >
Dr Pepper Snapple Group has signed a five-year contract with India's HCL Technologies for applications support and infrastructure management, reports Economic Times . The deal is expected t... More >
More students are pursuing graduate studies in science and engineering, and that population of students is growing more diverse, reports InformationWeek . According to the National Science... More >
After being laid off from their positions at MySpace , some of the 480 recently axed folks have now also been asked not to cash their checks, because the amounts may be incorrect, according to Tech... More >
Tim Cummins, CEO of the International Association For Contract & Commercial Management, shares lessons about negotiating business process outsourcing contracts , based on a recent discussion at ... More >
Nearly another 35,000 IT jobs were cut in May, a decline of 0.9 percent over April's figures, according to TechServe Alliance. ZDNet has a graph showing the monthly U.S. IT job figures over... More >
The word is out that Microsoft has hired Yahoo operations VP Kevin Timmons to lead its Data Center Services team , as Ars Technica reports. But according to TechFlash , two other former Y... More >
AMR Research notes a gap between what the industry wants and what universities turn out with their supply chain management programs. AMR ranked 19 college programs according to what 126 companies sa... More >
As expected, MySpace has slashed its international staff . That's in addition to the 400 U.S. jobs cut earlier. Now it's eliminating 300 of 450 jobs outside the United States, according to The Ne... More >
Layoffs are increasing demand for contract IT workers , whether they call themselves free-lancers or consultants, reports Computerworld . Citing data from job sites Elance and oDesk, it ... More >
Job applicants with the city of Bozeman, Mont., don't have to list their user names and passwords to social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace after all, reports CNET News . The ... More >
MySpace had big layoffs yesterday, about 400 people in the United States. But according to TechCrunch , it will cut international staff next and the pink slips will affect more than the 30 percen... More >
Potential layoffs continue to worry IT hiring managers , while those still employed may face salary cuts and those laid off are looking at long, difficult job searches, reports Network World . &nbs... More >
Alcoholic beverage vendor Diageo has signed a $35 million IT services contract with Computer Sciences Corp., reports The Associates Press in a story in Forbes. One part of the contract cal... More >
As expected, MySpace has announced layoffs , about 30 percent of its staff. Silicon Alley Insider quotes CEO Owen Van Natta saying: Simply put, our staffing levels were bloated and hindered ... More >
Japan will be be the next big source of business for the Indian outsourcing industry, according to a study by Zinnov Management Consulting. The world's second-largest economy, Japan also has b... More >
Companies that outsource IT work need to check every six months into their providers' financial health and risk, and at least once a year re-evaluate their outsourcing strategy, warns Gartner . &nbs... More >
In an interview with The San Jose Mercury News as he's retiring, Mike Curran, who is called the jobs guru of Silicon Valley, offers this among his thoughts about work force development. Most of th... More >
TechCrunch is reporting that MySpace is planning to lay off up to 500 of its 1,600 employees . So far, MySpace remains mum on that. A spokeswoman would say only: Like any company with new l... More >
The U.S. Labor Department is sending $450 million from the federal stimulus package to help workers whose jobs have been sent overseas, reports Network World . The money will come through t... More >
Green technology has been adding more jobs than other sectors, according to the new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. That category has been growing 9.1 percent between 1998 and 2007, versus 3... More >
California-based Cadence Design Systems is cutting 225 jobs -- 5 percent of its global work force -- as part of an effort to save $30 million a year, reports The Associated Press in The San Jose ... More >
The Internet has created 1.2 million jobs , many paying higher salaries than average, according to a new study. The research by a couple of Harvard business professors and Hamilton Consultant... More >
With budgets growing ever tighter , companies are squeezing every last penny out of every dollar. So this CIO.com piece offers nine ways to cut costs with IT outsourcing . Among them: &nbs... More >
The hiring outlook for CIOs is looking up, writes InformationWeek 's Marianne Kolbasuk McGee in a post called "Companies Looking To Hire CIO 2.0." Shawn Banerji, managing director at nationa... More >
Telecom Zain is outsourcing management of its network in Nigeria to Ericsson , giving the Swedish company its first managed-services contract in Africa, reports Dow Jones in a story in The Wall St... More >
Wipro, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services made Walmart's short list as possible outsourcing vendors for business applications and other back-office functions, reports CXOToday.com . It puts the... More >
Australian telecom Telstra has awarded $1.2 billion in new outsourcing contracts to Infosys, EDS and IBM after thinning the ranks of outsourcing vendors, reports Economic Times . It says ED... More >
Offshoring IT work won't save you money if your internal governance is weak , experts said last week at the Forrester IT Forum in Berlin. Analyst Euan Davis told Computing.co.uk . If busines... More >
Is that a threat? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company would move workers out of the United States if President Obama's plan to change tax law on foreign profits goes into effect. The ... More >
A former Google recruiter says the company kept a "do not touch" list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo whose workers it would not hire, reports The San Jose Mercury News .The story says ... More >
Though the recession has put price pressure on outsourcing providers, prices really have not fallen that much , according to an IDG story in The New York Times. Quoting sources from EquaTer... More >
The third-quarter Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report finds most companies plan to keep staff levels about the same -- just like last quarter. The company did phone surv... More >
Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans make up only 6.8 percent of tech companies' engineering and other tech staff , according to a study by the Anita Borg Institute , reports The Wall Street Jou... More >
Top young tech talent that would have gone to Silicon Valley instead is being employed at defense contractors involved in the federal government's cyber security push, reports The New York Times ... More >
BusinessWeek looks at cutting salaries , once verboten but more common in this recession. It's a move that FedEx, Hewlett-Packard , AMD and The New York Times have taken. Some admire the pr... More >
Some tech companies are still hiring in this down economy, but it's getting more difficult because they're snowed under with applicants , according to this IDG story in The New York Times. ... More >
Though one of the most commonly used destinations for outsourcing, India had eight cities listed in the 25 riskiest cities in "The Black Book of Outsourcing." India Times does a nice click-through ... More >
Offshoring could become more prevalent with so many states in dire financial straits, according to a Computerworld article. The article looks at the efforts of New Jersey to put the kibosh ... More >
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