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IT Employment Rising

Unemployment among business-technology professionals has fallen to a decade low as the size of the IT workforce has risen to a record level in 2007, according to CIO Insight analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Joblessness among American IT workers averaged 2.1 percent last year, down from 2.5 percent in 2006. That’s the […]

WiTricity: Transmitting Electricity Wirelessly

You think WiFi was revolutionary, picture technological advances that WiTricity will bring. WiTricity? Yes, transmitting electricity wirelessly. In an experiment revealed last week, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source seven […]

Do Computer Pros Work Less Than Others?

Among eight broad professional occupations tracked by the government, only one category—consisting of educators, trainers and librarians—average fewer hours at work each week. The occupation category comprising computer and mathematical professionals (math occupations such as actuaries, operational research analysis and statisticians make up less than 5 percent of the category) who usually work full time […]