Demand for IT skills continued to grow throughout November, bucking a general softening in employment growth as interest rates, and uncertainty surrounding the change of government begins to bite.
After months in the doldrums, internet IT job ads took an upward turn in May, growing by 1.6 per cent, a whisker ahead of the overall internet job ads.
The sharp rise in demand for IT skills throughout 2007 is well and truly in retreat according to the latest figures from the Olivier Job Index.
IT jobs lead the February fall of online job advertisements according to the latest Olivier Job Index, released over the weekend.
Demand remains strong for software development and engineering skills, with many employers focusing on recent graduates to shore up their productivity through tough times.
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The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is "clearly an industry trend".
At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Symantec CEO John Thompson talks about three security trends he believes will significantly impact the tech industry in the years to come. He predicts that malicious software will outnumber legitimate software; identity management will grow far beyond the enterprise; and digital-rights management will become...
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802.11i is currently nearing completion and it adds two main blocks of improvements, improved security for data in transit, and better control of who can use a network.
With chip makers chomping at the bit to update systems to create a 64-bit world, CIOs need to ask the tough question, "why?" This article provides compelling arguments for the switch.
Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.
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