Deb Perelman

In recent months, the awareness about people unable to connect from technology for even a short period of time has gotten a lot of attention. Last November, The New York Times ran an article on a Korean boot camp to cure kids of their computer addiction. South Korea, a country where 90 percent of homes […]

Picture this… You’re taking a long weekend hike with your family. You tell jokes, sing silly songs while admiring the trees and streams. You have no cell phone reception, no laptop; you haven’t answered a call, responded to a text or e-mail missive all day. You have absolutely no idea what it is going on […]

The credit crisis has claimed its biggest victim yet, reawakening worries about what it will mean for IT spending and employment. Bear Stearns, on the verge of a collapse wrought by the credit crisis, was bailed out by JPMorgan Chase for a 93 percent discount late March 16. Having built its reputation on mortgages, Bear […]

Winning a special election in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois, Democrat Bill Foster March 8 became a U.S. Representative who is a certified computer geek. Foster filled a seat vacated when former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert stepped down in November 2007 after 21 years of service in a solidly Republican district. […]

Bill Gates’ visit to Washington to lobby lawmakers for improved access to foreign workers March 12 appears to have gotten through to at least two Congressmen, who have each proposed significant H-1B increases. Late the day of Gates’ speech, a House Democrat on the Committee on Science and Technology, the one which Gates had addressed, […]

Beer maker Molson Brewing will cut nearly 400 IT, HR and finance jobs, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The jobs will be outsourced to Hewlett-Packard. Molson hopes that the cuts, impacting 4 percent of its global work force, will allow the company to save $250 million over three years. The cuts will come from all […]

What is considered “old” by employment standards these days seems younger every year. In industries such as IT this is especially apparent, as the stereotypical tech guru is rarely envisioned as being in the 50-plus set, yet statistics suggest that this would be a more accurate depiction of an IT professional. According to the AARP, […]

For years, IT professionals looking to increase their job security, expand their career horizons and potentially climb a couple pay grades have been told to take business courses or get an MBA, but the evidence to support these assertions has been little more than anecdotal. Now, however, a study published in the March issue of […]

After nearly a year of wrangling, Google’s long-sought acquisition of online ad delivery service DoubleClick was completed March 11. The $3.1 billion deal was completed within hours after the Europe Commission removed the final roadblock to the purchase with its approval. “Although it’s been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick […]

The annual list of H-1B visas continues to be dominated not by large U.S. tech companies, but by Indian outsourcing firms and U.S.-headquartered service providers that do the majority of their work in India. These are the findings of new data released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on March 10. Six of the top […]