The sudden announcement that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence has the Web abuzz with ominous predictions, abrasive judgments, and maybe even a few conspiracy theories. It would appear that the ongoing-and certainly sad-saga of the iconic Jobs' health battles has raised hackles of many a blogger, with much of the ire directed at Apple's handling of the affair.
Nearly 1500 CEOs left their jobs last year, including 221 in the technology and telecommunications sector, according to US recruitment firm.
Salaries for IT jobs in London have plummeted 2.3 percent over the last 12 months, according to a new survey.
The Indian government appointed three members to the board of Satyam Computer Services on Sunday, promising that the new board will provide direction to the company which is reeling from a financial scandal.
The dismal US economy has made many companies ripe for takeovers, so it's important for IT managers and CIOs to be prepared in case their company is involved in a merger, an expert warns.
More than half of all developers worldwide on average are expecting to work on SaaS (software as a service) applications within the next year, according to a new survey by Evans Data Corporation.
The number of IT professionals expecting to see budget and head-count cuts grew significantly between October and December, CDW reports, as more large-business decision-makers turn to cost-cutting measures for 2009.
Two Australian IT recruitment firms have joined forces which will bring together expertise to provide service support across all IT&T recruitment areas.
The hottest jobs in IT are for business, architecture and policy experts.
Chad Fulgham, a former technology executive at the now-defunct Lehman Brothers investment firm, has been hired by the FBI to fill its CIO position.
Some online job boards are seeing a steep decline in the number of IT jobs employers and recruiters are posting. The good news for your IT career? Executives at these job boards don't anticipate IT unemployment and job losses to be nearly as bad as 2001 and 2002.
Only one third of UK IT professionals are using social and professional networking sites to find their next IT positions.
The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and other IT careers attractive to students who abandoned those fields in droves after the dot-com bust of 2001.
With an abundance of projects on the cards for 2009, the outlook for IT recruitment remains positive, according to Melbourne-based IT recruiter Peter Acheson.
More than half of the working Millennials polled for an Accenture study said that were either unaware of their company's IT policies or are not willing to follow them.
IT working closer with the business side to weather the storm; less emphasis on cuts.
How much has IT budget anxiety grown? Forty percent of US CIOs plan to cut their budgets from last year's level, with contractors and discretionary technology projects first in line for cuts: that's up from 26 percent in July and 17 percent in March.
IT workers may have been tempted to switch to any other field -- other than banking, that is -- following a stream of depressing surveys that gloomily predict shrinking IT budgets and shrinking career opportunities.
Independent contracting is the occupation of choice for 20 per cent of Australia’s workforce, and is most prevalent in the Communications Services industry, according to preliminary research conducted by Monash University.
Companies that are globalizing their operations or outsourcing work to offshore locations shouldn't overlook behavioral and cultural differences when developing their security risk-management plans, according to a survey of IT managers and end users in 10 countries that was released Tuesday by Cisco Systems.
