Don E. Sears

There are already some amazing online deals on consumer products for the holiday season, but you better understand your company’s policy on whether you should be making purchases on the job this coming Cyber-Monday. Nearly half (48 percent) of 1,400 CIOs polled in a new survey from staffing and research firm Robert Half Technology said […]

Programmers, data center operators and application developers: Take heed. The facts are hard to ignore. When it comes to where business and job growth are happening in the world, it’s not in the United States, according to a report from the Hackett Group-a strategic advisory company that benchmarks global business trends and tracks the offshore […]

If you’ve ever driven in or around the horrendous traffic of Washington D.C., then we’ve got some good news for you. A bill that has been in the works since 2009 and would allow more federal workers to work from home is on the desk of President Obama. Known as the “telework” bill, the piece […]

Rumor has it that Yahoo is cutting anywhere from 10 to 20 percent of its consumer products division which could be between 650 and 2,500 individuals by the end of the year, according to anonymously sourced reports from TechCrunch and AllThingsDigital. Yahoo disputed the numbers will be as high as 20 percent, but declined to […]

‘Tis the season to not upset your employer. Google reportedly fired an unnamed employee who leaked a memo of the company’s recent seemingly positive announcement of a 10 percent pay raise and a $1,000 bonus for all employees, according to sources who spoke with CNN Money. With more than 23,000 employees worldwide and many key […]

Non-Certified Technology Skills: the Top 25 Right Now by Don Sears Adobe Flex Internet applications are not plug-and-play. Making Flash and Air work on any OS and Web platform in any browser takes some open-source development know-how. AIX This IBM-centric Unix OS has not gone away with the finally-dead SCO case and neither has company […]

Search portal Ask.com is eliminating 130 engineering workers from its payroll and consolidating its workforce in one location in Oakland, Calif., over the next few months, the company announced Nov. 9. The company’s strategy now is to have a focus on question-and-answer content–something it had been doing in the past, but it now means it […]

Don’t ever underestimate the greenbacks, Mr. IT Manager. Your employees are pining for more of the compensation pie in 2010. More than 40 percent of technology workers who work for Wall Street firms think compensation is the most important reason to work in financial fields, according to a new report. In a survey that polled […]

Certifications in security may have jumped the shark a bit. Supply is catching up with demand as the pay value of security certifications has taken a slight dip over the last quarter, reported one research analyst group that intimately tracks IT skills, certifications and pay. Security careers have been on the rise with expanding social […]

Job openings for technology professionals continue to grow significantly from the same time last year. Silicon Valley continues to see a resurgence of job opportunities with a 61 percent increase from November 2009 at more than 4,600 openings in the region, according to a monthly report from technology job board Dice. Other regions increasing job […]

H-1B visa policy as currently run by the United States Customs and Immigration Services is under attack from all sides. An October advocacy paper by a conservative-leaning think tank calls for abolishing time restrictions, lowering or eliminating most of the fees, ridding company sponsors and removing most if not all of the bureaucracy involved in […]

IT spending in 2011 operating budgets is expected to rise at a median range of 3.3 percent-the first increase in three years-according to research published by Washington, D.C.-based benchmarking analyst firm Corporate Executive Board. While 60 percent of that budget will be spent on labor-either internal IT employees or contractors and outsourced labor-only a modest […]