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Top IT Schools to Watch

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

These are the top 10 IT schools that are best able to meet the demands of IT in the workplace.

Tech Departments in 2010: Hot Jobs, Cold Skills

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The IT department of the near future will be filled with 'versatilists,' those with a technology background, but who also know the business sector.

Tech Visionary and Byte Magazine Founder Wayne Green on Changing the World

Robert L. Mitchell — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Wayne Green identified trends such as the microcomputer, cell phone, the CD and the laptop revolution. The 86-year-old visionary is living proof that one person can kick-start an industry.

30 Skills Every IT Person Needs

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

An IT manager's guide on how to be better at what you do, no matter how experienced you are.

Computer History Museum and Web History Center to Preserve the Web's History

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:00:00 GMT

The Center’s mission is to identify and secure records from Web pioneers, companies, and other sources to preserve the Web’s collective memory.

IT Moves into Mainstream Media

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 05:00:00 GMT

Both The Economist (Oct. 30) and BusinessWeek (Nov. 8) have recently published IT-focused cover stories.

Wall Street: IT Growth in Low Gear

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:00:00 GMT

Today’s New York Times writes about a technology recovery of apparently "diminished expectations," pointing to the satisfied—or, at least, relieved—reaction on Wall Street to the pretty good profit reports that have come recently from IBM, Microsoft, eBay, Google and Amazon.com.The article, A Technology Recovery in Post-Exuberant Times, points to a long horizon of pretty good, but not great, ...

News, International Style

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:00:00 GMT

World technology news sites

Forecast: The Weather, That Is

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:00:00 GMT

The talk at the symposium has not been all about improving management skills and the latest IT applications. Like most human beings, CIOs like to talk about the weather. And the weather here in Colorado Springs, site of the CIO 100 Symposium, has been spectacularly beautiful and spectacularly theatrical. Attendees have had everything from cloudless, crystal blue skies ...

IT History: 1988, IT Contributes to Market Crash

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 05:00:00 GMT

February SEC Says Computerized Trading Systems Worsened Market CrashFeb. 2, 1988 After the "Black Monday" stock-market crash of Oct. 19, 1987 when the Dow fell by 508 points, or 22.6 percent?everyone wanted to know why, and whom to blame. Four months later, the Securities and Exchange Commission issues a report citing computerized trading systems as having "an indirect negative effect" on the ...

IT Lingo: What to Call a Group of Users, and Other Useful Suggestions

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:00:00 GMT

Collective nouns are one of the more vibrant parts of the English language. There’s the stirring pride of lions, the poetic murmuring of starlings, the onomatopoeic gaggle of geese, the quirky bed of flowers, and the alliterative bevy of beauties.IT has its own collective nouns. There’s the bank of servers and the bundle of applications. Those are, however, a pallid ...