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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Gates went in front of Congress to win H-1B visa extensions for foreign scientists and engineers. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates stepped in front of Congress on Wednesday for another shot at persuading them to allow more foreign-born engineers to work in the United States for longer time. He also made it a point to bring forth the idea of improvements ...

NEW YORK - Bankrupt telecom equipment company Nortel Networks Corp. plans to cut its work force by 3,200 jobs worldwide. The Canada-based telecom equipment maker said Wednesday the new round of job cuts will be made over the next several months. The reduction is on top of 1,800 job cuts already announced. Nortel filed for creditor protection Jan. 14 in Canada ...

For those of us who spend long days at our workstations, sitting nearly motionless under fluorescent lights, fitness can seem like a pipe dream. How do you squeeze substantial physical activity into a job that squeezes most of the air out of your day? Katie Hamlin, a senior account executive at public relations firm Edelman, puts her finger on it: “It’s ...

NEW YORK - Qwest Communications International Inc. posted a profit for its third quarter Wednesday, but said the continued slide of its traditional phone business is forcing it to cut 1,200 jobs, 3 percent of its work force. The cuts will come before the end of the year, which will leave the company with 33,500 employees, 9 percent fewer than at ...

'Iowa announces Microsoft is headed there for cheap power and good tax incentives.' - Iowa Governor Chet Culver announced Microsoft will build a $500 million data center that will be located in West Des Moines. The new building will be used to host web servers that are needed for cloud computing and services such as Windows Live. It'll take at least ...

Nov. 16 - Enjoy the free Wi-Fi that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are providing at airports and hotels this holiday season. It may be the last hurrah after five years of generous Web giveaways. That's my prediction for 2010: The year will mark the end of the online gravy train. "Free" will no longer be presumed for online services and ...

Radiology surveyed nearly 1,000 practices as to their utilization of teleradiology. They found that 71 percent of multi-radiologist practices had teleradiology systems in place, while 30 percent of solo practices had deployed remote reading systems.

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NEW YORK - Two unions representing 65,000 workers at Verizon Communications Inc. have set a Sunday night deadline for contract talks, saying a strike is possible next week. The phone company's contract with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers expired last weekend. Their members have been working under the old contract while negotiations have continued, ...

FRAMINGHAM, MA - Bose Corp., known for its high-end audio equipment, is cutting 1,000 jobs - about 10 percent of its work force. The privately held company, based in Framingham, made the announcement Tuesday. Bose spokeswoman Carolyn Cinotti cited the decline in the global economy as the main reason for job reductions. Cinotti said the layoffs would occur in "select areas, ...

'Cyber security is one of President-elect Obama's many concerns when he becomes president next month.' - A new report issued by the Center for Strategic and International Studies urges President-elect Barack Obama to create a new White House department aimed at protecting U.S. cyber interests from hackers and other foreign agents. "America's failure to protect cyberspace is one of the most ...

WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years. In a speech to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Gates speculated that some of the most important advances will come in the ways people interact with computers: speech-recognition technology, tablets that will recognize handwriting and touch-screen ...