Career News and Advice
Social Networks Are a Corporate Cybercrime Threat
Just as more workplaces are allowing their employees to
use social networking sites on the job, the sites are getting more
infected by malware, thus becoming more dangerous, and giving corporate IT folks
one more thing to worry about.
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Posted at 01:24PM Feb 09, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Tuesday's Headline Roundup
IT hiring jumps in January [ComputerWorld]
Obama's 2011 Budget Suggests Agencies Use Cloud to Cut Costs [ITBE]
Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC's have a Gender Problem [TechCrunch]
Quoted: California solicits geek aid [SiliconValley.com]
The Company Behind More Than 3,000 Apps [WSJ]
CISOs take measured steps to reduce social media risks [Search Security]
Google Gmail Getting Social Features [InformationWeek]
Job Postings Hint at Amazon's Plans for the Kindle [NY Times]
China Closes Hacker Training School, Arrests 3 [eWeek]
-- Mark Feffer
Posted at 09:09AM Feb 09, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Monday's Headline Roundup
Comparing salaries: No, thanks. Not in this economic climate [ZDNet]
Oracle's Plans for Java [ITBE]
Game developers move to iPhone, ignore Wii [VentureBeat]
Health Care Field Eyeing Apple iPad [eWeek]
Government IT Leadership Redefined [InformationWeek]
Scientists Offered Free Access to Azure Cloud [Data Center Knowledge]
N.J. Venture capital experts see some thawing [Times of Trenton]
Wikia Says It's Profitable, Goes On Hiring Spree [TechCrunch]
-- Mark Feffer
Posted at 08:57AM Feb 08, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Browser Wars in the Workplace
What's your corporate browser of choice? So prevalent is IE that even its newest version, IE8, has already achieved 28 percent market share among Windows users. That's not bad considering how slow and/or reluctant some people are to upgrade. How about you?
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Posted at 04:55PM Feb 05, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Friday's Headline Roundup
Sun CEO Announces Resignation on Twitter [InformationWeek]
Key Microsoft Exec Quits [InformationWeek]
Microsoft's Suicidal Infighting: An Insider's Story [InformationWeek]
Apple to Developers: No Location-Based Ads for You [Mashable]
Will iPad Invade Enterprise as Quickly as iPhone Did? [CIO]
10 iPhone Business Apps That Should Be on iPad [eWeek]
IT Management Aided by New Appraisal Technique [ComputerWorld]
IT Warned to Prepare Network for Super Bowl Monday [ComputerWorld]
Ex-Broadcom Officials off SEC Hook [WSJ]
Silicon Valley's IT salaries stall [FierceCIO]
Follow Tech's Trail of Money in Washington [InfoWorld]
-- Sonia R. Lelii
Posted at 10:21AM Feb 05, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
More Cautious Optimism in Silicon Valley
In Silicon Valley, the outlook for the hiring of IT professionals is, at best, cautiously upbeat. And, Doug Bartholomew reports, at least a few companies are hiring.
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Posted at 09:01AM Feb 05, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Thursday's People News
AOL Names David Eun President of AOL Media and Studios [earthtimes.org]
Revere Security Appoints Co-Inventor of Public-Key Cryptography Whitfield Diffie as Chief Cryptographer [Revere Secruity]
W. Dale Young Joins American Public University System as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer [Public University System via BW]
Online Scheduling Pioneer Tungle Expands Executive Team To Drive Aggressive Growth [Tungle via BW]
More after the jump.
Posted at 04:23PM Feb 04, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Is It time to Ask for a Raise?
Working harder for less money is bad for morale, and it won't pay the bills. So now that the economy is improving, is it time to take action? The good news is that job seekers in some areas are receiving multiple offers, which is helping to drive up salaries according to tech recruiters. At least a few job seekers reported similar experiences on the Dice Discussions board.
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Posted at 02:36PM Feb 04, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Don't Just Cut IT, 'Re-balance' It
A short article in Forbes.com on the importance of fine-tuning an organization's IT team is among the most eloquent we've seen recently when it comes to the realities of outsourcing, cost-cutting, and overall business value.
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Posted at 11:39AM Feb 04, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Thursday's Headline Roundup
Cisco to Add 2,000 to 3,000 Jobs [eWeek]
Tech Spending Bounces Back as Profits Rise [WSJ]
IT Managed Services: 2010's Bright Future [CIO Update]
NASA Ames expects new jobs under budget proposal [SiliconValley.com]
VA Freezes IT Budget For 2011 [InformationWeek]
Forrester: SMB IT Security Spending to Increase [ITBE]
So What are the Top ECM Skills? [Oracle]
Can Microsoft's Azure Find True Blue Developers? [GigaOm]
Silicon Valley tech workers had rough decade [SiliconValley.com]
Layoff Watch: Telco Cuts, Long-Term Unemployed Find New Jobs [eWeek]
What Facebook's HipHop means for developers and businesses [O'Reilly]
-- Mark Feffer
Posted at 09:02AM Feb 04, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
The Era of Infocentricity Has Begun
Don Willmott has a thought for the day: It's not the computer - it's the information. And as technology evolves the two are going to be bound together less and less.
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Posted at 05:10PM Feb 03, 2010 in Blog | Comments[1]
Wednesday's Headline Roundup
U.S. 'Severely Threatened' by Cyber Attacks [InformationWeek]
IT Managers Have Had Enough [InformationWeek]
Homeland Security Plans Cybersecurity, Data Center Investments [InformationWeek]
Apple has Another Tablet in the Works. More Like a Mac Than an iPhone [TechCrunch]
AOL Posts Profit But Subscribers Dwindle [NYT]
Do IA Certifications Improve Hiring, Promotion and Salaries? [CIO]
How to Protect Your Reputation Online [CIO]
My Job Search Success Story [CIO]
-- Sonia Lelii
Posted at 09:43AM Feb 03, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
What It's Like to Work at Google, from Someone Who Works at Google
It's been an interesting month for Ben Tilly, given that he recently signed on to work at Google. On his personal blog, he makes some observations about life in the 'plex, including its creative and chaotic culture, the sheer scariness of its intelligence, and its affinity for dogs. Here's your chance to see a first-person account.
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Posted at 03:07PM Feb 02, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
MIT Aims to Recruit More Minorities into its Faculty Ranks
It's no secret the technology and engineering fields haven't put a lot of emphasis on diversity. Professionals there like to think they're a meritocracy, so diversity tends to be an uncomfortable topic. But recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded it has to do a better job in recruiting and retaining black and Hispanic faculty.
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Posted at 10:54AM Feb 02, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]
Tuesday's Headline Roundup
Apple's Chip Team a "Giant Sucking Sound" In the Valley [Louis Gray]
The Apple iPad, explained to geeks [Seattle P-I]
Macs Dominate in Sales of PCs Over $1,000 [ITBE]
Federal IT Budget Grows To $79.4 Billion [InformationWeek]
AOL To Hire 150 Engineers In Silicon Valley [Business Insider]
Dice is looking for a functional analyst and manager of software development [Dice]
Tell them Feffer sent you.
Microsoft exceeds goal of 5,000 layoffs [InfoWorld]
Glimmer of hope in tech job market after a very rocky 2009 [TechFlash]
Google prepping an app store for enterprises [VentureBeat]
10 Cloud Computing Predictions For 2010 [ChannelWeb]
Why Your Boss Hates Facebook [ReadWriteWeb]
-- Mark Feffer
Posted at 09:22AM Feb 02, 2010 in Blog | Comments[0]