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- Tech layoffs accelerate in first quarter
- Layoffs in the technology sector accelerated in the first quarter to hit 84,217, the highest total since 2002, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement outfit. The layoff tally in the first quarter was up 27 percent from the 66,312 job cuts announced in the fourth...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Technology Sector, Job Cut, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003
- That economic doom-and-gloom has finally hit the tech sector and it looks like job cuts in the electronics, telecom and computer industries could be flirting with numbers they haven't seen in years. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement firm that tracks daily job cut...
- Tags: Human Resources, Job, Job Cut, Recruitment & Selection, Sam Diaz, Technology Sector, Workforce, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
- With SAP’s decision to forgo its 2009 guidance a paradoxical beacon of truth in a falling market, I have decided to return from vacation a day early and get busy trying to gauge the market for enterprise software in the coming year. It’s not an easy task, needless to day,...
- Tags: Technology Sector, Enterprise Software, Recession, Dot-com, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up
- The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...
- Tags: Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Job, Larry Dignan, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, Strategy, Technology Sector, U.S. Department Of Labor, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future
- The U.S. continues to produce a growing number of high-paying tech jobs, with the top locations being New York City, Silicon Valley, and Seattle, according to AeA's Cybercities report. Nevertheless, the report also points to a labor problem that could threaten America's tech leadership. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: U.S., Job, Technology Sector, American Electronics Association, Tech Job, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures
- PwC is to be congratulated at the very least for the aesthetics of their latest report: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies. This is a truly handsome report with pretty brown coloured text interspersed with striking images of wind turbines, sail boats, happy children, adults playing in autumn foliage and even...
- Tags: James Farrar, Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Strategy, Sustainability, Technology Sector
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Can 'cubicle envy' help the Vista upgrade cycle?
- While Microsoft tries to convince enterprises to upgrade to Vista with presentations about total cost of ownership, the real trigger for an upgrade cycle may come from employees a few rungs below the CIO. Thats a major takeaway of a research note from Cowen & Co. examining the health of...
- Tags: cubicle, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- The real reason why BlackBerry settled
- The real reason why BlackBerry settledAll your predictions SUCKEDRead all your so called predictions the last two weeks and they all amounted to, zip, nada, nothing...It's time to declare warThese so called "patents" are a joke. Even the patent office agrees.But - the cost of running a...
- Tags: technology sector, Research In Motion Ltd., patent, NTP, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2006-03-04
Additional Resources
- Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?
- I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...
- Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services
- Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...
- Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Accord CD Ripper Xtreme 6.1.5 (Windows)
- Rip audio CD tracks to WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC, MP2, VQF, AIFF, AIFC, AIF, 3GP, AAC, M4A, M4B, MP4, MPC, MP+, MPP, WV, AU, SND, RAW, GSM, VOX, PCM, ADPCM, G721, G723, FAP, PAF, SVX, 8SVX, IFF, NIST, IRCAM, SF, VOC, W64, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, PVF, XI, HTK,...
- Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, Audio CD, Accmeware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
- Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....
- Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Demand this from software vendors
- I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Behind the GOP revolt on health care
- ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Why on ZDnet?
- Tech has a huge role to play in combating global warming, and, in just using energy more efficiently. Harry is doing a great job keeping us informed, and I really do like his blogs. And, it is just a style thing as to how much or even if the bloggers...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, talkback
- Discussion threads 2009-10-04
- Why on ZDnet?
- I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...
- Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- SIA: Global chip sales showing sequential growth, hints of recovery
- The latest efforts to "Go Green," along with the rise of netbook computers, helped boost global chip sales in August by 5 percent, compared to the previous month - a common way for companies to gauge their recession-recovery efforts. On a year-over-year basis, sales were down 16...
- Tags: Recovery, Semiconductor Industry Association, Computer, Chip, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Semiconductors, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless
- Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...
- Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless
- The young whipper-snapper I spoke to, a computer science-studying university student at Nottingham Trent University, showed me a demonstration of the Surface table. I had seen it before and while I was initially impressed with the technology, we seemed to hit a defining moment when we both realised that...
- Tags: Microsoft Surface, Device, Microsoft Corp., Education Authority, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
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