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Yahoo Gets First Female Director
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-31
In a move that some pundits argue better arms Yahoo for an all-out media war, the internet giant appointed telecom executive Maggie Wilderotter to its Board of Directors July 27.
The CEO and Chairmen of
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Engineering Degree Surcharges Becoming Common
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-30
Engineering and business students at an increasing number of public universities are finding themselves faced with a surcharge for their choice of studies, reports the New York Times
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IBM Battling 2 Overtime Lawsuits at Once
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-30
In the span of a few month, IBM has been hit with two overtime lawsuits from former employees. The first was filed July 9 and the second was filed just last week.
The most recent suit, filed July 20 in the U.S. District Court for Eastern California by John Bennett, Bill
Tech Unemployment at 1.7%
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-25
Technology and engineering unemployment is at 1.7 percent, the lowest level since 2000, and is at less than one percent for petroleum engineers (0.7 percent), architects (0.8 percent) and civil engineers
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Online Communities Help, Not Hinder, IT Work
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-24
It seems rarely a day passes that a headline doesn't decry another Web 2.0 "lesson learned," so to speak, from "Employee Fired for MySpace Profile" to "Workers Squandering Company Time on Message
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Castro Condemns U.S. H-1B Policy
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-20
Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, issued a missive July 17 condemning the U.S. and other wealthy nations for causing Latin American "brain drain" and damaging their economies by encouraging the migration
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NYC, SF Top List of Best Places for Young Pros
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-18
Certain you'll never make it in the Big Apple? Think again. In a recent issue, Forbes Magazine ranks New York as the No. 1 city for young professionals.
Though this is far from surprising--many of America's best companies, from Goldman Sachs to News Corp., make the island of Manhattan their
WSJ: Offshoring Losing Its Luster
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-03
India's outsourcing boom has largely been powered by Silicon Valley, which has shifted great sums of IT and engineering jobs in Bangalore's direction for the last several years. When the outsourcing boom
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'Hack Me': Microsoft Security Grunt Makes List of Worst Jobs
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-07-02
Every year Popular Science magazine publishes The Worst Jobs in Science, a "bottom-10 list" saluting the "men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward."
Published
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Coming Soon: Microsoft Job TV. And Penguins.
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-06-22
Intrepid Australian Microsoft-watcher Long Zheng, in stumbling upon what he called "a cr*pload of patent applications from Microsoft" learned June 22 that Microsoft is laying early plans to launch
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It's Actually Not Big Brother Who Is Watching
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-05-30
One in three IT employees admits to snooping through company systems and peeking at confidential information such as private files, wage data, personal e-mails and HR background information,
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When 'Work Anywhere' Becomes 'Work Everywhere'
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-05-10
The "work anywhere" culture that has emerged from readily available wireless connectivity and handheld mobile devices is typically praised across the board by workers--who love their newfound
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How One Employer Handles Its Talent Shortage
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-05-04
On May 1, the U.S. Army became the newest winner of a Webby Award—often considered the "Oscars of the Internet"—in the recruitment category.
What does this have to do with the technology workplace? The U.S. Army is no stranger to talent shortages. In the thick of a four-year war with
Inbox Overwhelmed? File for Email Bankruptcy
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-05-04
If hearing a new term three times in one week officially makes it a trend, then "E-mail Bankruptcy" is clearly all the rage among the overworked masses, who are opting out of their overstuffed and time-squandering inboxes.
What exactly is it? One fringe dictionary defines it as "choosing to delete,
Report: Tech Pay Broke the Bank in Early 2007
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-04-12
In the first quarter of 2007, IT professionals raked in their highest average wages since 2001, finds the Q1 Yoh Index of Technology Wages, released April 11.
Technology pay reached an average hourly rate of $31.80 in Q1 2007, finds the report. Wages saw a 5.5 percent bump in January, a
