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Survey: IT workers eyeing security certifications

A survey of IT workers finds that more than half will pursue security-related certifications within five years. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Security, Security Certification, Survey, Information Technology Worker, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-05

IT workers got a raise in 2008, tech job site says

Businesses may be cutting the amount they spend on technology, but the Wall Street Journal's Ben Worthen notes that tech workers got a raise in 2008. The average IT pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6 percent increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which...

Tags: Job, Dice.com, Salary, Information Technology Worker, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-21

IT salary survey: Not all technical certs created equal

Some technology certifications don't land you more pay; multitasking is critical and IT worker salaries are up slightly from a year ago, according to a survey by Global Knowledge and our sister site TechRepublic. The survey surfaces a bevy of key points see PDF download, but for...

Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Survey, Salary, Information Technology Worker, Quality, Benefits, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Average IT worker earned $32.39 an hour in October 2007

Hourly wages for highly-skilled technology professionals reached an all-time high during Q4 2007. And though growth slowed sequentially at the end of the year, it still remained ahead of 2006, according to Yoh Index of Technology Wages. The average hourly wage for high-impact IT workers was recorded at $32.39 during...

Tags: Salary, Information Technology Worker, Benefits, Human Resources, AM

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Training/tuition reimbursement kit

This kit can serve as a framework to define and formalize your organization's approach to employee training. Training for all employees is advantageous, but it's crucial for IT workers. A significant portion of an IT worker's skills must be updated and expanded regularly to ensure that those...

Tags: Training, Information Technology Worker, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Download resources 2005-07-11

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How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

The state of US workforce technology adoption

Did you know that among US information workers that: 35% use laptops and 76% use desktop computers? Only 11% use smartphones? 57% are optimistic about technology, but 43% are pessimistic? We know because we surveyed 2,001 US information workers that use computers...

Tags: Team, Collaboration, Smart Phone, Information Worker, Tool, Workforce, Gen-Y Employee, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Productivity, E-mail, Knowledge Management, Human Resources, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-10-08

News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Mobile Device Management for Dummies

Every day, more and more of your enterprise - along with its data and transactions - is moving to the frontlines where you interact directly with your customers. The frontlines present a key opportunity for your business to gain a competitive advantage, by having the information and applications necessary to...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Salesperson, Mobile Device, Handhelds, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Book chapters 2009-09-01

DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise

TechRepublic guest post: In case you haven’t heard, e-readers are making an impact. They’ve been around for some time, but only now (thanks, in part, to Amazon’s Kindle) are they being taken seriously. The e-readers’ biggest fan is the avid reader, but this doesn’t have to (and most likely won’t)...

Tags: E-reader, Employee, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....

Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when? Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-22

IBM introduces data-masking technology

IBM introduces data-masking technologyThis just seems fishy.This is one of those things that might give you a warm fussy about your security, but in actuality turn out insanely difficult to implement and to do very little to keep the hard core hackers out. How can text recognition program secure things...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, SECURITY, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

MedSpan 1 (Mobile)

Developed by a longtime lecturer at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, MedSpan for the iPhone or iPod Touch translates medical interview questions from English to Spanish and Spanish to English. MedSpan not only facilitates examinations by using "yes/no/notes" answers, but also utilizes new portable information technology to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Mobile, Health Care, jmConsulting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-07-14

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR PC READER (Mobile)

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES (MARCH2003) gives concise yet complete summaries of the most important national clinical guidelines at your fingertips, and updates those guidelines regularly as new information comes out. ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE BOOKREVIEW: "Redi-Reference Clinical Guidelines Handbook is a powerful tool for bringing evidence-based medicine to the point of...

Tags: Mobile, Guideline, PC, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-10

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES 5.1 (Mobile)

REDI-REFERENCE CLINICAL GUIDELINES (January 2005) gives concise yet complete summaries of the most important national clinical guidelines at your fingertips, and updates those guidelines regularly as new information comes out. ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE BOOKREVIEW: "Redi-Reference Clinical Guidelines Handbook is a powerful tool for bringing evidence-based medicine to the point...

Tags: Mobile, Guideline, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20