The number of high-tech jobs in all industries Silicon Valley declined by 86,000, or 16.5 percent, between 2001 and 2008, according a federal study of employment trends in the valley. In the study released last month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) identified 11 industries...
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 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>> ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, WI - Police Officer Jon Cvengros has cut the amount of time he spends conducting traffic stops in half. The Mount Pleasant officer said he can finish a single-citation traffic stop in about five or six minutes and spends even less time writing municipal...
The U.S. government plans to hire more than 11,500 IT professionals over the next three years, according to a survey of federal agencies. The actual number of new hires may be much more than that, as the survey by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service is...
While technology is doing better than most industries now, hiring is expected to be conservative for the remainder of 2009. Network, desktop and application development top the latest report, as well as more granular skills in SAP, Java, Linux and BPM. If you live in the...
People love to quibble over cloud computing definitions, so let's lay this one out: This article's about infrastructure as a service, where companies rent virtual servers as needed for a variety of uses. Here, we're digging into gritty practicalities not often discussed, including pricing and...