Deborah Rothberg

Four Feckless Business Approaches to IT Its rare to find geeks or suits out there who cant list examples of their earnest work being thwarted by “those other guys.” Yet most people will tell you there is more to the picture than incompatibility, some noting problems as simple as a language gap. “Sure, youre both […]

At pay rates of up to 30 percent more than most IT professionals, the prospect of becoming an IT contractor makes many tech workers see dollar signs. Its more than money, however, drawing them in: Its variety. Some find the influx of new and different projects to be more satisfying than the static labor in […]

In numbers that havent been matched since 2001, the U.S. tech industry added 140,000 jobs in the first half of 2006, according to a report released Sept. 26 by the Washington, D.C.-based AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association). Though nearly double the 78,900 added in the first half of 2005, the tech industry growth rate […]

Only 33 percent of employees are satisfied with the quantity and quality of communications from their employers, according to a study released Sept. 25 by New York-based Jack Morton Worldwide, a global experimental marketing agency. “The best way to build a business is from the inside out,” said Josh McCall, CEO of Jack Morton. “Companies […]

Despite fierce competition by Baby Boomers, the number of Americans working into their 50s, 60s, 70s and even 80s is at a record high, according to news analysis of federal employment data released by New York-based global outplacement consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Sept. 20. The surge in percentage of employed “retirees” will only […]

Its not news that business and IT departments within a company dont always get along. Its rare to find a geek or a suit out there that cant list off one or several examples of their earnest work being thwarted by “those other guys.” Yet, most people will tell you there is more to the […]

You might want to sit down for this one. According to a survey released Sept. 20 by the New York-based Hudson Index, many bosses dont have a clue about how their employees feel about their managerial skills. According to the results, 92 percent of managers consider themselves to be good or excellent bosses, but only […]

Thirteen percent of CIOs plan to increase their IT staff in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to a survey released Sept. 20 by Robert Half Technology, a provider of IT professional services. Three percent of CIOs anticipate cutbacks, giving a net 10 percent hiring increase in Q4, as forecast in Q3, but up 2 […]

In an effort to help educate the next generation of software engineers, Coverity, a San Francisco-based software engineering company, announced Sept. 18 its university outreach program, already in partnership Carnegie Mellon, Purdue and Stanford University. Coveritys bug-finding technology, Prevent, was developed in the labs of Stanford University. Its source-code analysis system detects defects in open-source […]

Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are. Yet, there is beauty in numbers. While there may be developers who have had riches heaped on them by knowing the right programming language at […]