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A Rochester Institute of Technology professor argues for the preservation of American technology jobs. The professor also discusses the major trends in moving highly paid jobs in technology across the globe. Cost cutting is the name of the game. But at what price for the country? That...

The last days of an outsourcing contract are the perfect time for customers to bargain with their IT service providers for better service and prices. Yet few customers take advantage of that end-of-life leverage, and those who do often wield the power as a cudgel...

Wondering how much the top dog in the IT shop makes? KForce, a technology staffing firm with 41 offices across the U.S., asked its consultants for the going rate for CIO base salaries in various cities. Here's what they say about the western portion of...

In what could be seen as a precursor to a National Health Information Exchange, HealthBridge, a regional HIE in Cincinnati, has teamed up with the Indiana Health Information Exchange in Indianapolis and HealthLinc in Bloomington, Ind., to begin sharing secure clinical test results, discharge summaries...

In recent years, the top tier Japanese pharma companies, in order to compete against international incursion in its own $78.6 billion home market (or about 10% of the global pharma market), has been forced to globalize. Add to this that the Japanese market growth has...

The prevailing wisdom among many scientists and scientific organizations is that, as a rule, scientists are press shy, and those who aren't are mavericks. However, a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, published in the current issue (summer 2009) of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,...

In a sharp reversal to extensive cutbacks in their U.S. workforces, Hewlett-Packard and IBM are opening service and support centers in three small towns across the U.S. that are expected to employ about 4,000 people in total. Read Bob Evans full Global CIO column>> ...

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology was granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for their Evercore® solution. According to Jim Prekop, TeraMedica's President and CEO, the patent will differentiate and protect their position in the global marketplace. TeraMedica is a Milwaukee-based medical informatics...