Donald Sears

Equipping workers with the ability to work remotely is not a priority for over half of companies, finds a Cisco Systems study on remote access released Nov. 23. Of the 502 IT managers surveyed, more than half (53 percent) said less than half of their employees have remote access, and nearly a quarter (21 percent) […]

Want to check in on the progress of a project or the state of your office, or need an immediate status update on the floor of a manufacturing plant? It’s impossible to physically be in two places at once, but that is getting a little less difficult with an innovation known as “telepresence robotics.” Pretty […]

As the layers of the Bernie Madoff ponzi-scheme scandal continue to be peeled away, two programmers on the Madoff books are now in the spotlight and facing a potential 30-year prison sentences. Jerome O’Hara, 46, and George Perez, 43, the accused programmers, began working for Madoff in the early 1990s, under the direction of another […]

Adobe Systems announced Nov. 10 that it will trim 680 jobs or roughly 9 percent of its work force in order to make 2010 projections. The company did not issue an official press release about the restructuring, but did make note of it in a public SEC 8-K filing. The layoffs appear to be within […]

Many economists have been expecting overall unemployment numbers to expand above 10 percent for much of 2009. The U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday that those numbers are finally here. As of Oct. 31, unemployment in the United States is the worst it has been in 26 years–now at 10.2 percent. What does it mean […]

While the offshoring of technology labor is a trend not likely to go away any time soon, there are U.S. companies that are staying competitive by having parts of their operations at locations in more rural U.S. states. Patrick Thibodeau at Computerworld has a good article on the trend and includes a profile of Atlanta-based […]

In an effort to curb rising costs for employees and for the company, IBM will be picking up the tab on health care costs for primary care in 2010. “Employees enrolled in IBM plans will receive full coverage throughout the year–no coinsurance or deductible–for in-network primary care with their internist, family practitioner, pediatrician, general practitioner […]

If you haven’t read about the fascinating tale of alleged insider trading by Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group, IBM Senior Vice President Robert Moffatt, Rajiv Goel from Intel Capital and others that recently erupted out of Wall Street, you have missed a fairly elaborate scheme between hedge fund managers and technology management insiders, according to […]

With the threat of 120,000 job losses, the industry trade group TechAmerica is pushing hard for an extension of the U.S. R&D tax credit. The credit brings $2 for every $1 spent back to the United States, claims the group. Tax reform organizations have called the tax credit corporate welfare, and want Congress to let […]

Perhaps the headline for this one should have read: “Does Your Project Have a Business Sponsor?” When surveyed about how to improve technology projects, most executives from IT and the business side often rank alignment of business and technology as a top priority. In fact, it ranked as the No. 1 priority on a survey […]