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Article | 4/01/2011 New book tells how to overcome work obstacles

Words of advice from a veteran

Article | 21/12/2010 10 IT-related predictions for 2011

We were wrong -- so far -- that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO by the end of this year, but we were right that Apple's tablet, whose name wa...

Article | 6/12/2010 Facebook rolls out redesigned profile pages

Facebook on Sunday introduced a redesign of its user profile pages in advance of an interview on the "60 Minutes" news show where CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

Article | 3/12/2010 What the influx of 'digital natives' will mean for IT

In about 15 years, the Millennial Generation -- the "digital natives" who began entering the workforce in 2000 -- will be, more or less, in charge of ...

Article | 28/09/2010 How to recruit and hire Millennial tech employees

The Millennial generation increasingly streaming into the workforce is less focused on money and more on being challenged and contributing to the larg...

Article | 6/08/2010 IT hiring continues to improve, according to surveys

Hiring for IT jobs continues on the upswing in the U.S. and Canada as recessionary gloom gives way to cautious optimism, according to various recent p...

Article | 3/08/2010 Strategy's Limits: A chat with Ernest von Simson

As co-founder of The Research Board, an exclusive, IT-focused think tank established in 1970, Ernest von Simson watched time and again as corporate le...

Article | 27/03/2010 Hacker Gonzalez gets 20 years for Heartland breach

Hacker Albert Gonzalez, who participated in a cybercrime ring that stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers, was sentenced Friday in U....

Article | 26/03/2010 Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion-dollar credit card scam

As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year sti...

Article | 26/03/2010 Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion dollar credit card scam

Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosec...

Article | 3/03/2010 Apple sues HTC for patent infringement

Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against HTC, claiming that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents.

Article | 30/12/2009 Nokia files ITC patent complaint against Apple

Nokia fired the latest salvo in its ongoing patent dispute with Apple, saying Tuesday that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade ...

Article | 19/12/2009 Microsoft, Intel, Google legal news prevails

It was a week where competition regulators danced with IT industry behemoths: the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Int...

Article | 11/12/2009 10 predictions for 2010

No doubt, a leading IT story in 2010 will be the role that sector will play in the expected economic recovery, as well as how IT markets themselves re...

Article | 9/12/2009 Top quotes of the year

As the year draws to a close, we thought about the memorable quotes related to IT and offer, in no particular order, 15 that stuck with us.