Deb Perelman

It’s little news that technology is predominantly a male environment. Blame for the imbalance is typically placed on a low amount of natural interest by women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, with the actual experience of women who work in technology being a less frequently investigated possibility. Speaking at a lecture hosted […]

Technology executives once again dominate Forbes’ list of the richest Americans, with half of the top ten coming in as tech-made billionaires. While Microsoft top dog Bill Gates held down his No. 1 slot, with $59 billion and counting as he prepares to give up day-to-day involvement in his company to spend time on his […]

If you thought it was hard enough to compete with a bunch of 20-something geek brainiacs in a garage in Menlo Park, California, you probably don’t want to hear about Arjun Mehta, a sixth grader who started the company PlaySpan last year in his parent’s garage in Santa Clara. Yet what he’s done is enough […]

Fourteen percent of CIOs said theyll be hiring and two percent of CIOs expected to be making job cuts in the fourth quarter of 2007, finds a survey issued Sept. 11 by Robert Half Technology, an IT recruiting firm. The net 12 percent hiring increase compares favorably with net increases of 15 percent projected in […]

Whats the workday like for a database administrator? Well, that depends on whether you want the long answer or the short one. The long one seems to go on for miles: Installing, upgrading, capacity planning, tuning, fixing application performances and recovering documents are just the beginning of it, and that doesnt include firefighting their way […]

As if getting laid off weren’t dehumanizing enough, 10 percent of U.S. employees say that their company has used e-mail to fire or lay off employees. In the workplace equivalent of getting dumped over the phone, 17 percent said their bosses had used e-mail to avoid difficult face-to-face interactions. These were the findings of a […]

For one of the biggest healthcare data breaches in history, the lawsuits havent stopped yet. In December 2005, thieves broke into the parked van of an IT systems analyst for Providence Home Services, a Washington state health care company, stealing a computer bag with ten unencrypted tapes and disks holding information on what would turn […]

While being allowed to telecommute is a beloved perk for some employees, among most IT professionals—for whom being “on task” means being “on-site”—working remotely is not even an option. Meanwhile, as most workers in small and large metropolitan areas can attest, commutes are getting worse, not better. Traffic congestion has created a $78 billion annual […]

In a week in which patent news is all over the wires, some new research presented an interesting blip on the radar screen: If you want your technology patent to create buzz, make sure you’ve got a co-ed team. Research published by NCWIT (the National Center for Women & Information Technology) found in a review […]

I recently spoke to someone who called talk of work-life balance, more or less, hooey. He felt that the topic gets a rather tired treatment in the news, often focused exclusively on the difficulties working mothers have balancing everything on their plate, while there were plenty of people who desired balance for less valiant, but […]