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Adobe Systems plans to cut 680 full-time employees worldwide which represents about 10% of the company's workforce. After Adobe's acquisition of Omniture in late October, the company announced 9 percent of Omniture's 1,200 employees will be released in a separate round of job cuts in the future. The company - which is best known for Photoshop and Flash - will have ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has given a green light to the Homeland Security Department to be more competitive and choosey as it hires up to 1,000 new cyber experts over the next three years, the first major personnel move to fulfill its vow to bolster security of the nation's computer networks. The announcement follows a wave of cyber attacks on ...

When times were better, Robert Taylor had one hell of a job. As a team member for Yahoo's search operations center, he helped oversee the company's search engine systems worldwide. "If you went to Yahoo and something was not working, I was one of the people in the background," the 46-year-old Covina resident said. "I monitored their servers and network devices ...

WASHINGTON - Businesses are finally willing to spend more money on equipment, a healthy sign for the economic recovery. For the first time in nearly two years, companies ponied up more money for a category called "equipment and software" in the third quarter of the year. It isn't a huge growth rate - just 1.1 percent, according to the government's ...

Photo: Lachlan Hardy/Flickr (CC) You need to know how to deal with different types of people in order to get along. Some are especially sensitive to certain things, like the conflict resolution rep that hates to hears insults around the office, even when they're said in jest. IT workers like us are no different. We take our geekiness seriously and ...

There have been many details made available at the Intel Developer Forum about future Clarkdale desktop and Arrandale mobile chips. Yields are very good and defect density is steadily decreasing. They will be launched very soon as part of the 32nm Westmere family. Intel also revealed some details about production of chips using the Sandy Bridge architecture in 2010. The company's "tick-tock" strategy of ...

Once viewed as a plaything, the Macintosh is now the PC of choice for many hard-core technology professionals, and Macintosh skills are now an in-demand specialty among IT pros, rather than an afterthought. "The Mac will be coming soon to a company near you, if it hasn't already," says Brian Vaughn, executive vice president of Dataprise, a network support and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates jobs and mints fortunes. Silicon Valley investors are pointing to something called cleantech - alternative energy, more efficient power distribution and new ways to store ...

'Google has one of the most employee pampering policies, but its losing star employees; what's happening?' - Google's top 3 executives have pledged to stay with the company for two more decades. It's not hard to imagine why with the company's rampant success and amazing perks. Like a tropical paradise, the Google workplace environment sounds like some fantasy or flight of ...

'Google says employees are being shed to reduce redundancy within the organization.' - Yesterday, reports surfaced that IBM was going to cut an additional 5,000 jobs from its consulting and outsourcing divisions. Google announced yesterday that it would lay off 200 employees in its sales and marketing division. This makes Google the latest of the large IT companies to shed employees ...

'Microsoft isn't happy about a new tax on companies foreign profits.' - It takes an incredibly powerful company to threaten the U.S. government in hopes of impacting a significant decision, but that's precisely what Microsoft is doing.  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made headlines when he publicly attacked President Barack Obama's plan to cut tax breaks on U.S. companies' foreign profits, a ...

BEIJING - Shares of Lenovo Group tumbled Thursday after the world's fourth-largest computer maker warned it expects a loss for its latest quarter and will lay off 11 percent of its work force and cut executive pay. Lenovo said it will eliminate about 2,500 jobs worldwide, including some management positions. It said executive compensation would be cut by 30 to 50 ...

'The billions in spending included in the stimulus plan may be more effective than tax incentives in stemming the outsourcing of IT jobs.' - Corporate America's drive to cut costs by moving jobs offshore has hit Robert Poulk hard. A veteran of the defense, aerospace, and computer industries, Poulk never had trouble finding work—until 2003. That year, his job as a ...

In today's uncertain economic times, you - like many others - are probably focusing on saving more and spending less. You may be anxious about your job security, salary and employment opportunities. Over the years, I've found the best way to combat stress is to put together a plan and stick to it. Here at InsideTech we are 100% focused on ...

WASHINGTON - Many college graduates are passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, which have been hit hard by the recession, in favor of life in urban, high-tech meccas. Their moves are fueling a resurgence of brainiacs in parts of California, North Carolina and Texas. Census data released Tuesday offer the first detailed look at U.S. migration ...

'Productivity enhancements will be the source of significant gains in GDP.' - With the proliferation of Smartphones, notebooks, and high-speed mobile broadband networks it will come as no surprise to most that mobile broadband is shaping up to be a big business in itself and that the use of mobile broadband can help workers in many areas be more productive. InformationWeek ...

Microsoft confirmed Friday it's re-evaluating its current hiring plans and "will make some adjustments as appropriate." Those adjustments are likely to be downward, given Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's recent comments about Microsoft being affected by the economic slowdown. Although the company still intends to keep growing, any reductions are unsettling for a region reeling from the fire sale of Washington Mutual, ...

OK, so you've written your resume, you've done 3 versions for specific job criteria, and you're drinking the Koolaid of sending fewer, but more targeted resumes. You're on the right path to searching for a new job. Today's post talks about the first tool a job seeker should consider: Linkedin. Many readers may already be on Linkedin, but I'm consistently amazed ...

BOISE, Idaho - Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global work force as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday. The bulk of the job losses will be in Boise, where the semiconductor company is headquartered. A company statement said the cuts were a result of declining customer demand and ...

IT outsourcing has become common for many different companies as they take jobs that in the past were kept in America and send them overseas to developing nations where workers will do the same tasks for a fraction of the cost America workers demand. This is a good thing for the foreign workers, but it's hard to find a silver lining ...