Find out which tech jobs offer the most job satisfaction, average salaries and growth opportunity, according to data from Glassdoor. The Best Tech Jobs in America Glassdoor recently released its list of the best jobs in America and 10 of the top 25 jobs listed are in the technology sector. When you combine that with […]
Because you’re doing your research on MCTS courses, the chances are you’re in 1 of 2 situations: You might be wondering about completely changing your working life to the field of computers, and research demonstrates there’s a growing demand for people with the right qualifications. In contrast you could already be in IT – and […]
AOL-Time Warner. Sprint-Nextel. AT&T-TCI. The history of the tech industry is littered with the corpses of failed mergers that have brought once-mighty companies to the brink of disaster. But despite the fact that roughly seven out of 10 mergers are failures, tech companies are still going out of their way to acquire one another. Recent […]
Dear Architect, Exploring our space—partly science, partly art—is always a fascinating and complex task. We could take the contextual approach and address a context-specific subject, as we did recently (BI, SOA, and so on), or we could take the introspective approach of analyzing the role that we play (how we communicate, how we negotiate, and […]
E3 2011: New Fable and Kinect experiences wow the LA crowds Microsoft has kicked off E3 2011 in style in Los Angeles today, with a slew of new announcements and demonstrations of exclusive games and services for Xbox 360 and Kinect. And, as was expected and hoped, a final reveal that Halo 4 is on […]
Apple Monday previewed Lion, the next major version of Mac OS X, which will feature iPad-like multi-touch gestures and be sold for $29.99 on the Mac App Store. The low price is the same as Apple charged for Snow Leopard, the current version, but Apple had charged $129 for most previous major releases of Mac […]
For a five-year-old game console with no major updates in tow, the Nintendo Wii has been in the news an awful lot this month. There was that rumored price cut on May 15, the damning reports about its sales figures, and Kotaku noted that the Wii’s games list has thinned out considerably. So it comes […]
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse on Friday reiterated his opposition to the pending merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, arguing that the deal poses a “serious threat” to the wireless industry. “We just cannot let this happen,” Hesse said during an event in San Francisco, as reported by Bloomberg. “If the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger is […]
Flipboard on Thursday confirmed that it has secured $50 million in funding, which values the company at $200 million. The money will be used “to grow the company and product as well as give us a good runway to build the business model out and create great partnerships in the years ahead,” a Flipboard spokeswoman […]
There was an interesting announcement indicating that the Android system will be the first to allow carrier billing for all sorts of purchases. This opens the door to the inevitable: the phone company becoming your credit card and finance company. This possibility became obvious to me years ago when the first blue tooth devices appeared […]
The Best Protection I torture-tested all of these products, challenging them to clean up 13 malware-infested systems and to block malware from attacking a clean system. Interestingly, the most effective antivirus products in my tests were not those that bulked up with added features. Webroot and Ad-Aware Pro offered the best protection overall, especially against […]
Some IT consultants drive profits via a storefront; others wouldn’t touch retail using their fiercest competitor’s budget. I don’t think IT consultants targeting commercial clients have much business managing a store. When’s the last time someone walked in off the street and asked to buy a dual-CPU 2U rack-mount server? It’s usually a residential user […]
In yet another listed breakdown of work trends, a company called CareerBliss has compiled lists of the happiest and unhappiest cities in which to work. Here are the happiest: * San Jose, CA * San Francisco, CA * Jacksonville, FL * Miami, FL * Washington, DC * Memphis, TN * El Paso, TX * Los […]
