India-based IT company Satyam is facing scandal after its chairman, Ramalingam Raju, admitted he falsified approximately $1 billion of profit in the last several years. The incident, which some are calling India's Enron, may end up costing hundreds of IT workers in Australia their jobs and... (Read More)

A new study by Janco Associates, Inc. is full of gloom-and-doom about the state of employment in the IT industry. A year-long survey of U.S. and Canadian businesses indicates a combination of job outsourcing, layoffs, and other cost-cutting measures have led to the worst job market IT professionals... (Read More)

Following the publication of the second quarter and half year results to September 30, 2008 it seems that BT is to slash some 10,000 jobs before March next year. That is equivalent to some 6 percent of it's global workforce, and I understand that most are likely to be found in the shape of... (Read More)

According to the results of the first annual Green IT survey, IT departments in the UK are guilty of greenwashing with only 20 percent of businesses actually measuring the IT-related energy spend. Extreme Networks and Data Integration, behind the survey, revealed that analysis of the needs of UK... (Read More)

Which hypervisor performs better, Xen or VMware's ESX? That apparently depends on which organization you ask. But for a team that's tasked with choosing a virtualization platform, some impartial data would sure be helpful. "That's where we come in," said Michael Salsburg, director of the Computer... (Read More)

I've been writing for a year now on how the information technology sector would be impacted by an economic downturn. Well, it looks like we're going to really find out. As I've written, when credit dries up and loans and capital are hard to get, tech companies hunker down and freeze new hires, push... (Read More)

What can your IT department learn from Microsoft's latest advertising bungles? Plenty. When the company released its "Mojave Experiment" ads (which I'd link to but the site forces you to install Silverlight to view them), the premise was rather sad. It seemed to suggest that at least one of the... (Read More)

Some good news - rare good news - from the U.S. stock market late today as reports and rumors seem to point to a new U.S. government agency to assume and/or manage bad debts for financial services companies. The new agency, similar to the Resolution Trust Corp of the early 1980's, which was used... (Read More)

When one thinks about high-tech states, one typically thinks of places such as California and Massachusetts. But....Alabama? The Southern state was the only state government on CIO Magazine’s top 100 institutions for excellence in information technology. According to CIO, the state provides more... (Read More)

Former Systems Adminstrator Gary McKinnon has admitted hacking into the US Military Systems and NASA in search for UFOS. Gary McKinnon has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Gary McKinnon's plead for extradition has been revoked by the European Court House Of Rights. Gary's Attorney... (Read More)

In case my recent post about the stress levels of IT workers made you want to start looking for a new job, the least I can do is offer you some tips. Here are three things you need to do right now: Get a sense of the market - Make sure you have your finger on the pulse of the IT industry,... (Read More)

A couple of weeks ago, InformationWeek ran an interesting piece reporting on a Forrester Research survey. The crux of the survey is that CIOs tend to report to a lot of different people, including CEOs, CFOs, COOs and heads of business units. It’s interesting that the chain of command differs... (Read More)

Fellow DaniWeb blogger Guy Clapperton makes some excellent points about why, as a "self-employed Mac user," he bought himself a new iPhone following yesterday's announcement of the new 3G model. Are there any compelling reasons to get a new iPhone if you're a corporate employee or business owner,... (Read More)

Rather aptly located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum will open its doors to the Charles Babbage Difference Engine Number 2 on May 10th. One of only two such working devices in existence, the first being housed within the Science Museum in London, the Babbage Engine holds... (Read More)

Research by security as a service specialists ScanSafe has proven something that pretty much everyone knew already: namely that people working at home are more likely to view online pornography than those stuck in an office somewhere. I mean, it hardly needed a survey to dig up that little gem, but... (Read More)

Data is used in almost everything we do these days, there are many more ways for companies, people at home or the government to lose data. But it keeps happening. Banks, the 100+ departments of local councils, (including libraries) and every website you buy or register on. The list is endless, and... (Read More)

That is what we could be asking by 2012, and be answered with a resounding cry of to the job centre looking for new employment if Fujitsu Siemens Computers is correct with its prediction. FSC today suggested that within just four years unmanned data centres will not only be fully commercially... (Read More)

The University of Miami in the US has got together with the University of Dundee in Scotland to work with IBM on a project to develop open source software designed specifically to address the needs of older people, and help them to adapt to and remain productive in the 21st century... (Read More)

If you've ever had the (un)fortunate experience of having to work closely with a lawyer, you know that their profession seems to have it's own language. In fact, there are actually courses in law school that teach future attourneys to speak this strange mish-mash of English, French, Latin, and... (Read More)

Japanese information technology companies are mapping out a new base to outsource software development in India, according to Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Japanese firms, which have long shifted their software development to China for low costs, are now faced with a lack of local engineers and deciding... (Read More)

OK, so that would just be silly, would it not? Nobody in their right minds would accept a job working in IT on Mars. Yet so far 70 people have applied to the Mars-500 project in Russia, for the unusual position (literally) of an IT Manager willing to be sealed inside a metal container simulating a... (Read More)

The reports that are popping up all over the web that IBM, along with Georgia Tech, has demonstrated the world’s fastest ever chip are, sadly, not quite as exciting as you might at first think. Not least because this wasn’t a chip at all, but rather a transistor, and even the least technical... (Read More)