Deb Perelman

Just over two weeks after being canned from Microsoft, the software giant’s former CIO has found himself a new job with a more impressive title: Chief Operating Officer at a wholesale mortgage lender in Ocala, Fla. Stuart Scott was terminated in early November after an investigation for violation of company policies, according to a company […]

How bad of an impact will slacking employees engaging in online shopping over the holiday season have on workplaces? It depends on whom you ask. Some estimates are near a half-billion dollars. Challenger, Grey and Christmas, a Chicago-based executive outplacement firm, estimates that on the Monday following Thanksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday, online shoppers […]

IT stands among the ranks of vital professionals—healthcare, public safety workers and government—for whom evenings, weekends and holidays are par for the workplace course. However, without the glamour associated with saving lives, restoring heat to freezing homes or guiding people through the sky so they can be reunited with their loved ones for the holiday, […]

For the first time in over three decades, New Jersey will be open for business on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and that noise you hear is the sum of five million groans, or the entire employed population of the Garden State. In reopening for business on Black Friday, as the day after Thanksgiving is affectionately […]

Now more than a year out of the business gate, Microsofts Vista operating system is having trouble making friends in the exact place it needs them the most—the IT department. When asked, rather than express excitement over Vistas promised better security, networking features and fancy GUI, IT professionals admit trepidation over the looming upgrade and […]

What’s not to love about a hotel? You walk into an expansive lobby, often awash in sunlight from the skylight above, furniture is arranged in informal clusters across the arena-like space, some more secluded in a corner, others right in the middle of the buzz. People are everywhere and there is a delightful buzz of […]

A technology professional working at a large company was recently asked to sign a noncompete contract and confidentiality agreement that gave the company a royalty-free license to any “invention” he created while working there and up to six months after leaving the company. The employee, who declined to offer his name or the company in […]

What will be the hottest IT certifications in 2008? According to Michael Trapp at knowhow-now.com, they won’t be as Microsoft-centric as they were in previous years. Basing his list on “job growth, sales of certification training material and a little guess work,” Trapp argues that any of the listed certifications would be great to have […]

If you’ve ever felt that your company is more concerned about pinching pennies than it is about making it easier for you to do your job, a new report confirms your suspicions. The most pressing technology challenge facing SMBs (small and midsize businesses) is keeping their IT budgets under control, research commissioned by CompTIA (Computing […]

The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards in the IT industry, will announce Nov. 13 a new level in its IT Architecture Certification program—the Distinguished Certified IT Architect, or level three. Hoping to establish industry-wide standards for enterprise architects across three distinct career paths—including chief or leading architect, professional or […]

Cybersquatting, the act of registering a domain name in hopes of selling it to someone who wants or needs it later, is, under the best of circumstances, still considered a fairly shady practice. Though the reserving of common words such as menus.com or socks.com isn’t considered harmful per se, the more malicious infraction of acting […]

A new survey finds that two-thirds of U.S. workers who call in sick aren’t actually ill, but we know what you’re thinking: Also, the sky is blue, right? That workers use their sick time for more than being sick isn’t exactly news but the reasons that people are using their time sick time for other […]