Despite the fact that Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs chose not to attend the ongoing Macworld conference in Boston, the company's mercurial founder still managed to remain at the center of the show's attention.
IT&T recruitment company Hudson has given an optimistic prediction on the job front for the rest of the year despite concerns about offshoring.
The industry is demanding skills in project management, IT sales, security, .NET development, business process analysis and CRM/ERP, according to a three-month forecast by recruitment agency Hays IT.
Information technology professionals, once rewarded with fat salaries and enticing stock options, are having a tough time finding work, and a new study shows little relief ahead.
Kaz Group subsidiary Aspect Computing has won an outsourcing contract with ING Australia, worth between AU$15-22 million over five years.
The damage estimates from the dot-com implosion and the ensuing economic downturn are still being tallied, but this much is already clear: The job of delivering successful e-business initiatives has become a whole lot more demanding than it was during the Internet's heyday. Are you up for the I-Manager challenge?
Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis lead to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expressed hope yesterday that the US Congress would take action to address a deepening financial crisis, which he warned could ripple across spending on all levels of the economy.
RSA president Art Coviello says he will quit his job if 'the security industry' is not dead within three years.
The National Australia Bank will approach the overhaul of its core banking systems cautiously over the next year, spending just $30 million on the Oracle-based first stage of the project, the bank's chief information officer Michelle Tredenick said today.
Smartphone developers learned on Monday that they won't be shut out of Apple's iPhone. But they're going to have to wait for the red carpet.
Venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) placed a US$100 million bet on Apple's iPhone on Thursday by creating the iFund. KPCB partner Matt Murphy talks about the iFund and the type of big ideas the fund is seeking.
update: Aussie Home Loans has lost its second chief information officer in nine months, but Christopher Hatzidis says he's left the mortgage specialist on good terms.
Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work.
The IT employment boom is showing signs of dwindling, due to the continuing post-Olympics slump and a local shake-out of the technology sector.
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