Deb Perelman

For one of the biggest healthcare data breaches in history, the lawsuits havent stopped yet. In December 2005, thieves broke into the parked van of an IT systems analyst for Providence Home Services, a Washington state health care company, stealing a computer bag with ten unencrypted tapes and disks holding information on what would turn […]

While being allowed to telecommute is a beloved perk for some employees, among most IT professionals—for whom being “on task” means being “on-site”—working remotely is not even an option. Meanwhile, as most workers in small and large metropolitan areas can attest, commutes are getting worse, not better. Traffic congestion has created a $78 billion annual […]

In a week in which patent news is all over the wires, some new research presented an interesting blip on the radar screen: If you want your technology patent to create buzz, make sure you’ve got a co-ed team. Research published by NCWIT (the National Center for Women & Information Technology) found in a review […]

I recently spoke to someone who called talk of work-life balance, more or less, hooey. He felt that the topic gets a rather tired treatment in the news, often focused exclusively on the difficulties working mothers have balancing everything on their plate, while there were plenty of people who desired balance for less valiant, but […]

Citing a macho, frat-boy atmosphere in the sales department, up to 500 former saleswomen at EMC are considering a class action sexual discrimination lawsuit against the storage giant, should a judge open an existing case on Sept. 17. Alleging discrimination and harassment, two women filed a lawsuit against the Hopkinton, Mass. company in 2004. A […]

At an estimated cost of between $70 million to $130 million, outsourcing giant EDS said in a Sept. 12 Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it will offer early retirement packages to about 12,000 U.S. employees in the fourth quarter, or more than 11 percent of its 136,000 worldwide work force. After receiving board authorization […]

While widely available job boards and advanced recruitment technology have undoubtedly made it easy for those seeking new employment, the system has its own set of problems. Advanced recruitment technology may have more or less done away with annoyances such as paper resumes on linen-like stationery, but it has come with its own drawbacks, the […]

Originally coined as a riff on Silicon Valley, the name Silicon Alley was given to the large concentration of Internet and new media companies in New York City in the late 1990s. Yet the term, along with the citys reputation as a tech hot spot, scattered after the dot-com bust, and companies that managed to […]

$75,458 – Average pay for NYC technology jobs in 2004 [most recent year for which a full set of data was available], a full 21 percent above average private employer earnings of $62,545 18,446 – Number of students enrolled in graduate science and engineering programs in the New York area in 2004, significantly more than […]

Average IT salary: Rose 4.74 percent to $80,006 between 2005 and 2006, the third highest in the nation. Source: Dice.com New York Regions IT Job Postings: 11,046 in August 2007; postings grew 22 percent between December 2006 and April 2007. Source: Dice.com IT Unemployment: Hovers around 4 percent. Source: Dice.com Hiring Outlook: 15 percent of […]

If one were to walk down Ninth Avenue in New York City, one could stand squarely in front of Googleplex Easts front doors and not know they were at the feet of Web giants. The building is entirely devoid of Google icons, from its signature red-blue-yellow-green logo to the much fawned-over foosball tables and Razor […]

Indian software firm Wipro has laid plans to open a big software development center in Atlanta, it announced Sept. 6. The Bangalore, India-based firm expects to hire more than 500 computer programmers over the next three years and set up a training center to provide technical and soft-skills training to its employees in Georgia. This […]