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HP Layoffs Signal Punishing Fall
Unless HP can turn enterprise software, cloud services, or some other line into a high-volume, high-margin business, it's in for a world of hurt.
How To Build The Right IT Skills
Every IT pro, no matter how senior, must always be in learning mode, but especially in a lackluster economy.
Can IT Be Trusted With Personal Devices?
Mobile device management as a path to security is a fundamentally flawed strategy. You must manage the data.
SAP Faces Uphill Battle On Database, Mobile, Cloud
SAPPHIRE conference spotlights a young, three-pronged strategy that remains a work in progress.
10 Ways To Stifle Tech Competition
Competition happens, unless you can avoid it. From Microsoft Windows RT to Google Chrome, here's how today's giants safeguard their turf.
Is Open Source Hardware IT's Next Big Thing?
Open source hardware isn't just for hobbyists. Early corporate adopters can reap business benefits.
Automate Your Way To One-Day Work Week
One man's secret: Learn to program, stretch your ethics, and work for a clueless company.
Ban On USAID Outsourcing Programs Makes Bipartisan Sense
U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop wants to bar the development agency from using public funds to help train offshore workers. Here's why lawmakers from...
3 Lessons From Yahoo's Meltdown, From An Insider
A former Yahoo exec who was laid off offers insights from the company's five-year drive to self-destruction.
The CIO Wears Two Hats: Isn't IT Enough?
Like Rick Roy, a growing number of CIOs now run IT plus another major business function. Here's why CUNA Mutual Group pointed Roy at procurement,...
NASA Blue Marble Project: Visual Data Lessons
What can IT leaders learn from the visualization techniques NASA used to create the Blue Marble earth images? Check out our video interview with...
Why Security Isn't A BYOD Showstopper
IT should view the bring-your-own-device phenomenon as less of a threat and more as an opportunity. Here's why.
10 Lessons From Leading Government CIOs
Under extreme budget pressure, federal IT leaders adopt shared services and build mobile app stores as they shift dollars where most needed.
If Apple Walls Garden, IT Should Demand Keys
Here's how and why IT must influence Apple and its smaller competitors to share a key to the walled garden coming to a desktop near you.
The Fall Of The Messiah Leader
Many CEOs create an illusion of control, but heroic, charismatic leadership in the context of large public companies is mostly a myth.
Dell/Compellent Wins Our Storage Evaluation
IT pros want reliability, performance, and low cost--and they say they’re getting it best from Dell’s recent storage acquisition,...
CIOs: Don't Get Taken For Granted
If your IT organization is seen as executing each new strategic initiative seamlessly, the job can't really be all that difficult, right?
RIM CEO Heins Impresses The BlackBerry Faithful
Research In Motion's new CEO Thorsten Heins connected with BlackBerry World attendees in a way RIM's former CEOs never did. He also acknowledged...
Collaborative Innovation Not Optional In Today's Economy
Given the global economic changes that began in 2008, we've been forced into a new way of working. Is your company burying its head in the sand,...
Barnes & Noble Deal Shows Microsoft's Patent Power
Bookseller could have continued expensive court battle with Microsoft over Android-based Nook, or cut Redmond a sweetheart deal. It chose the latter.
3 Examples: Visual Technologies Change The Rules
Businesses of all shapes and sizes will soon be held to a higher standard of customer experience as they try to sell products, or convey content...
After Flashback, Apple Walled Gardens Won't Help
Apple and other vendors will use the Flashback botnet as reason to move forward with desktop walled garden restrictions. Here's why that approach...
Why Apple Will Never Equal Sony
Is Apple destined to decline, as Forrester's CEO has predicted? If so, it won't be due to the absence of Steve Jobs.
An Open Internet: A Tale Of Two Approaches
The Obama administration takes a hard line, while the Aspen Institute sticks with softer platitudes, as some governments try to restrict Internet...
How Embedded Tech Can Change IT's Role
Consider some 75 examples of companies embedding technologies in products, from shoes to showers, in new ways. Embedded tech is finally allowing...
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Senator Wants 55,000 Green Cards For Tech Grads
May 17, 2012Sen. John Cornyn proposes replacing visa lottery with program that allocates more permanent resident visas to foreign STEM students at U.S....
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Microsoft Presses: More Green Cards For India IT
April 04, 2012Oracle, Google, Cisco, and Intel also push Senate to pass stalled legislation to end per-country caps on employment-based green cards.
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270,000 More IT Jobs Headed Offshore
March 22, 2012Offshore outsourcing will continue at brisk pace for next four years, then ease up as automation replaces offshoring as a way for companies to...
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Foreign Tech Pros May Benefit From Visa Changes
March 13, 2012New rules for L-1B visas that are under consideration by U.S. immigration authorities could open floodgates to foreign IT workers, according to...
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H-1B Application Window Opens April 2
March 01, 2012Controversial visa program allows foreign-born tech pros to work in the U.S. for up to six years.
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Skills Shortage? Quit Whining
February 29, 2012If "people are our most important resource," why do most employers expect this precious asset to show up gift wrapped?
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H-1B 'Victim' Still Jobless Despite Obama's Help
February 14, 2012Semiconductor engineer whose wife forwarded resume to the President via Google+ says he can't accept out-of-state offers.
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U.S. Shelves H-1B Visa Talks With India
January 10, 2012India has been voicing concerns that visas for tech workers are becoming too hard to obtain. Now trade talks are postponed indefinitely.
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Congressman Wants More Green Cards For Tech Workers
December 15, 2011Arizona Rep. Tim Griffin cites new study that foreigners with advanced technology degrees create more jobs than they take.
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H-1B Visas: No More Until Late 2012
December 13, 2011U.S. immigration authorities say annual limit of 85,000 visas has already been exhausted.
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