Deb Perelman

Every so often, an article or study comes out that strives to make IT look bad, either ineffective or a misguided use of corporate dollars. And every so often, an article or study comes out that shows some IT people making their own selves look bad. A new survey falls into this latter category. One-third […]

While the percentage of women in science and engineering programs at universities is slowly increasing, their representation continues to slip in CS (computer science) programs. Fifteen percent of Bachelor CS degree program participants in the 2004-2005 school year were female, down from 18 percent in the 1993-1994 school year, according to the CRA’s (Computing Research […]

Working in IT barely resembles what it did one and two decades ago, which creates an ever-shifting set of demands placed on IT professionals.“Twenty years ago, we’d visit companies and walk into this room in the back of the building that was disconnected from the strategy of the company. Senior executives had no idea what […]

Bail of $800,000 was set for an Edison, N.J., zoning board member arrested June 10 and charged with conducting an immigration racket between January 2002 and June 2008 through his IT company Cygate Software and Consulting. Cygate owner Nilesh Dasondi is accused of charging expatriates tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for fraudulently sponsoring […]

Has technology created a monster? E-mail–once a breakthrough in silent, speedy, low-cost communication technology that so seamlessly fits into the information worker’s day it barely goes noticed in 2008–is starting to get a bad rap. A typical office worker checks e-mail more than 50 times a day, IMs 77 times and visits more than 40 […]

What do models and techies have in common? At the outset, not very much, likely to most geeks’ chagrin. Yet, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, a bachelor who has been linked in the tabloids to several high-profile, beautiful women, has introduced a piece of legislation that would move foreign models’ visa class from the H-1B […]

IT is a relatively new field, and its demands are constantly shifting. The IT department of five or 10 years ago does not resemble the IT department of 20 years ago. The IT department of 40 years ago didn’t exist. For IT professionals, keeping up is a daunting task. Over the years, they’ve been told […]

EMC announced a partnership the week of June 2 with the U.S. Army’s job placement arm, PAYS (Partnership for Youth Success). The PAYS program provides opportunities for secure, quality civilian jobs for members of the military who have finished their commitment. In a time when nearly all of the largest tech employers are fretting over […]

Is instant messaging an IT irritation, a distraction or an excellent productivity tool? It depends on who you ask. For IT departments, IM is often seen–and rightly so–as a huge security hassle. Users may want it, but it means extra work for the techies who have to clean up the messes it can leave behind. […]

If its internship programs are any indication, IBM already knows what it wants to see in an IT department in the next five years: pros savvy in green IT, Web 2.0 and virtual-world technologies. These are IBM’s three focal areas for the summer 2008 season of its most competitive internship program, Extreme Blue. “We try […]