http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:22:21 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-03-17T14:22:21Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/siemens-expected-to-cut-more-than-1000-it-jobs/?cs=40115 Siemens plans to cut more than 1,000 jobs in its SIS information technology unit as it considers listing it on th stock market, reports Agence France-Presse .   Unions in Germany, where the company is based, believe most of the cuts will be made reduction_in_force sis siemens business_technology Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:22:21 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/siemens-expected-to-cut-more-than-1000-it-jobs/?cs=40115 2010-03-17T14:22:21Z 23 hours, 41 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/siemens-expected-to-cut-more-than-1000-it-jobs http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40115 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/indian-outsourcer-patni-opens-office-in-texas/?cs=40088 Following in the footsteps of other Indian outsourcers that are expanding operations in North America , India's Patni Computer Systems has opened an office in El Paso, Texas, reports The Wall Street Journal .   That decision came after it nearshoring patni_computer_systems india business_technology outsourcing Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:40:05 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/indian-outsourcer-patni-opens-office-in-texas/?cs=40088 2010-03-16T15:40:05Z 1 day, 22 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/indian-outsourcer-patni-opens-office-in-texas http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40088 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/economic-uptick-to-benefit-it-services-vendors-gartner-says/?cs=40086 In a recent Gartner survey, 85 percent of organizations expect their spending on external service providers to increase or stay the same as the economy improves. And 76 percent were optimistic about economic recovery this year, reports ZDNet Asia . services_vendors gartner japan it_market_analysts business_technology technology_markets offshoring india Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:26:00 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/economic-uptick-to-benefit-it-services-vendors-gartner-says/?cs=40086 2010-03-16T15:26:00Z 1 day, 22 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/economic-uptick-to-benefit-it-services-vendors-gartner-says http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40086 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/apple-give-jobs-stand-in-a-21-million-bonus/?cs=40044 Apple has awarded chief operating officer Tim Cook a bonus of $5 million and stock worth nearly $17 million at today's prices for filling in during Steve Jobs' medical leave last year, reports CNNMoney.com . That works out to about  $3.6 million a apple tim_cook busines_technology compensation executive_suite steve_jobs Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:35:02 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/apple-give-jobs-stand-in-a-21-million-bonus/?cs=40044 2010-03-15T13:35:02Z 3 days, 28 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/apple-give-jobs-stand-in-a-21-million-bonus http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40044 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/wipro-looks-to-expand-hiring-of-americans/?cs=40018 Indian outsourcer Wipro wants at least half of the workers at its U.S. facilities to be Americans , reports InformationWeek. IT Business Edge's Ann All has written about the plans of Indian companies to expand in the United States and Europe.   satyam wipro outsourcing business_technology infosys Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:56:28 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/wipro-looks-to-expand-hiring-of-americans/?cs=40018 2010-03-12T16:56:28Z 5 days, 21 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/wipro-looks-to-expand-hiring-of-americans http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40018 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/ibm-goes-secretive-on-us-headcount/?cs=40013 IT Business Edge blogger Ann All's call last year for more transparency from IBM about layoffs has fallen on deaf ears. The company has not been willing to comment on layoffs for some time, but now has announced it will no longer break out the number offshoring india ibm staff_recruiting_and_retention business_technology reduction_in_force Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:52:39 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/ibm-goes-secretive-on-us-headcount/?cs=40013 2010-03-12T15:52:39Z 5 days, 22 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/ibm-goes-secretive-on-us-headcount http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40013 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/how-much-should-your-job-pay/?cs=39981 Robert Half Technology offers online salary calulators for employers and workers in accounting and finance, information technology, legal, administrative, and creative and marketing. And they're by ZIP code, so regional pay variations are taken into compensation staff_recruiting_and_retention business_technology Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:19:02 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/how-much-should-your-job-pay/?cs=39981 2010-03-11T16:19:02Z 6 days, 21 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/how-much-should-your-job-pay http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39981 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/it-nobel-prize-awarded/?cs=39945 The Association of Computing Machinery's Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of the tech industry, has been awarded this year to Charles Thacker , who was involved in in developing Ethernet and the first graphical user interface, reports V3.co.uk business_technology innovation Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:57:38 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/it-nobel-prize-awarded/?cs=39945 2010-03-10T15:57:38Z 1 week, 22 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/it-nobel-prize-awarded http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39945 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/it-hiring-up-nearly-27000-in-2010/?cs=39905 Nearly 27,000 tech workers have been hired in 2010 , according to TechServe Alliance, an industry group that analyzes U.S. Labor Department unemployment data. It put IT hiring at 14,000 in February and 12,900 in January, reports InfoWorld .   The staff_recruiting_and_retention network_security business_technology Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:52 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/it-hiring-up-nearly-27000-in-2010/?cs=39905 2010-03-09T14:41:52Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/it-hiring-up-nearly-27000-in-2010 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39905 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/forrester-warns-against-satyam/?cs=39880 More than a year after the Satyam fraud scandal broke, research firm Forrester still sees the outsourcer as risky , reports Network World .   There have been criminal charges and the Securities Exchange Board of India isn't letting auditors outsourcing forrester it_market_analysts satyam business_technology Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59:21 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/forrester-warns-against-satyam/?cs=39880 2010-03-08T15:59:21Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/forrester-warns-against-satyam http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39880 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/union-says-ibm-layoffs-at-2400/?cs=39855 Alliance@IBM, a union representing some IBM workers, puts the number of North American layoffs at Big Blue at 2,400 , according to a Bloomberg story in The Boston Globe.   Notices were issued Monday, but because the company doesn't comment on business_technology reduction_in_force offshoring ibm Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:44:10 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/union-says-ibm-layoffs-at-2400/?cs=39855 2010-03-05T18:44:10Z 1 week, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/union-says-ibm-layoffs-at-2400 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39855 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/raises-to-resume-at-infosys/?cs=39810 While Oracle said its message was, "We're hiring,"   Indian outsourcer Infosys says its message is, "We're planning to give raises," reports Economic Times . India's No. 2 outsourcer said it plans to give across-the-board raises in April. Infosys india oracle infosys hcl_technologies business_technology compensation outsourcing tata_consultancy_services wipro vendor_management Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:02:34 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/raises-to-resume-at-infosys/?cs=39810 2010-03-04T16:02:34Z 1 week, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/raises-to-resume-at-infosys http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39810 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/oracle-raises-prices-of-certification-exams/?cs=39772 Oracle has significantly raised the price to take certification exams on its own and Sun technologies, according to a Computerworld story that doesn't really spell out how much they've gone up.  One person cited in the story, however, claims the cost staff_training oracle sun_microsystems business_technology Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:16:47 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/oracle-raises-prices-of-certification-exams/?cs=39772 2010-03-03T15:16:47Z 2 weeks, 22 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/oracle-raises-prices-of-certification-exams http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39772 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/ibm-wields-the-layoff-ax-in-north-america/?cs=39742 IBM issued layoff notices Monday , but the exact number isn't clear, since Big Blue doesn't comment on such things. InfoWorld reports the number as "more than 400." Phone+ reports it as "more than 1,200," while it's "more than 1,500" at The ibm reduction_in_force business_technology Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:06:41 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/ibm-wields-the-layoff-ax-in-north-america/?cs=39742 2010-03-02T16:06:41Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/ibm-wields-the-layoff-ax-in-north-america http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39742 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/top-intel-exec-suffers-stroke/?cs=39736 Sean Maloney , who heads Intel's Architecture Group, has taken medical leave after suffering a stroke last week at his home, reports CNET News .   The company said in a statement: Maloney's prognosis for a full recovery is excellent, and he is business_technology intel executive_suite Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:30:02 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/top-intel-exec-suffers-stroke/?cs=39736 2010-03-02T15:30:02Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/top-intel-exec-suffers-stroke http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39736