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Asia still on lookout for best IT talent

Asia still on lookout for best IT talentTake Your OwnThe United States will not be supplying any more work for you, so you will have plenty of workers to choose from. Obama to abolish outsourcing of US jobs to other nations and trust me, the USA will love it!!...

Tags: Strategy, IT talent, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Think before you fire: The cost of replacing IT talent

Think before you fire: The cost of replacing IT talentTwo pointsOne, the economy is not going to improve by 2010. It will be worse. Socialism wrecks an economy. Every time. And Obama and the Democrat congress are pushing socialism. Hard.Wallstreet gets it. There's a reason the Dow dropped almost...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Workforce management, Socialism, Wallstreet, information technology, socialism, Stop Listening

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Is the outlook bright for upcoming IT talent?

Is the outlook bright for upcoming IT talent?Doesn't look so bright to me!The way I see it, the US IT industry will implode. Companies want more knowledge and responsibilitiues form their IT workers, in ever increasingly complex environments, but don't reward that with salary incentive. In fact, salaries...

Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, homeland security, Microsoft Outlook, information technology, upcoming IT talent, IT talent, H-1B, job

Discussion threads 2007-03-02

Gates: West not supplying enough IT talent

Gates: West not supplying enough IT talentThe problem for Billy Boy is that the best and the brightest do NOT want towork for Microsoft. Sure, he will be able to pick up Russians that do not have jobs, but they will eventually want to work for Google when they can.Duh...."Worldwide,...

Tags: Strategy, Outsourcing, Benefits, information technology, IT talent, talent, job

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Additional Resources

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world???

Great article...Brian,You did a great job articulating the issues that are facing the SMB market when it comes to accounting issues. This group would be see the fastest, most direct benefit from high caliber, talented practitioners because they can react quickly and immediately to improve their operations, but often they...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS will give Microsoft a run for their money

SilverLight draws circles around Google's gimmickCompare SL's demo w/ that of ChromeOS and see it for yourself the truth: The former completely owns the latter.RE: Chrome OS will give Microsoft a run for their moneyWhat kool aid are you drinking? NOTHING is secure, and Google wants to take over everything....

Tags: Operating systems, Google Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Ford Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Royal Navy gets creative in attracting engineers - develop online game

Engineering is not what it used to be.  There used to be only 10 or so basic engineering degrees one could graduate with. Now there are hundreds (some even argue it's triple that) of specialties. Most are in demand all over the world. The technology revolution is moving at a...

Tags: Talent, Facebook, Online Game, Tool, Technology Revolution, Navy, Professional Development, Games, Workforce Management, Productivity, Career, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?

Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...

Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Microsoft search share continues its slow upward crawl

Google is impossible to beatAt this point, unless something absolutely traumatic was to happen to Google, I dont see any change from the status quo for a while.It will certainly take much more than a Yahoo/MSFT combo thats for sure...Onuorahttp://www.windows7update.comhttp://www.windows8update.comMS is grasping at straws & patentsOnce they lose patents it...

Tags: Workforce management, Bing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year

In other words, Google Appsare still at that 1 to 2 percent mark.Good Riddance!It won't be missed.Man, so true, MS Office is a big hairball of baroque features to format for8.5x11. MS Office will be on a downward slide from here on out.In terms of what is need for the...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple

Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...

Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Spell and Listen cards for iPhone 1.81 (Mobile)

Spell and Listen cards for iPhone will help child to recognize, spell, and pronounce 356 everyday words to strengthen vocabulary. It does that by showing your kid a beautiful, real picture with the letters that make it. As your child touches the letters and spells the picture correctly, the word...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, Mobile, Sai Services

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future

The co-founders of mySQL have profound disagreements on the future of the open source database following Oracle's takeover. Monty Widenius wants mySQL sold, not given to Oracle, telling reporters his Monty AB encouraged the investigation that has held up the Oracle-Sun deal. Meanwhile Marten...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Monty Widenius, Monty, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-20

HR specialist asks Oracle: where's the 'fusion'?

In an analysis of last week's announcement at Oracle OpenWorld that Oracle would finally be releasing its Fusion Applications next year, HR technology specialist Bill Kutik wondered out loud where and when we'll see Fusion HCM Human Capital Management emerge in an SOA-ready configuration. Despite Larry...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., SOA, Larry Ellison, HR Specialist, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Capital, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-19