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Mon, November 23, 2009 - Congress allocated $787 billion earlier this year in a stimulus package President Obama signed in an effort to jump-start the economy. So where are the IT jobs?

Mon, November 23, 2009 - President Barack Obama said today that more has to be done to encourage students to take up in math, science and technology disciplines, while indirectly warning of the global competition for highly skilled jobs.

Mon, November 23, 2009 - IT departments are notorious for their lack of diversity and the problem is only getting worse. Here are seven practical steps that CIOs and other IT leaders can take to attract and retain more women and underrepresented minorities to IT staffs.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Two U.S. Senators have proposed legislation that would bar any firm which lays off 50 or more workers from hiring guest workers holding H-1B visas.

Thu, November 19, 2009 - AOL, which will be spun off from parent company Time Warner next month, wants to cut its staff by about a third, and is giving employees a chance to volunteer to join the ranks of the unemployed.

Wed, November 18, 2009 - Robert Half Technology and Deloitte Consulting report that IT leaders are worried high-tech workers will seek employment elsewhere, leaving their companies at a disadvantage in terms of business-technology initiatives.

Wed, November 18, 2009 - The Programmers Guild and other groups, along with a number of individual tech workers, are taking their challenge of a Bush era decision to extend foreign student visas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wed, November 18, 2009 - It has been a tough year for Dataupia, but the data-warehousing appliance startup is alive and well following reports of major layoffs and a potential asset sale, according to founder Foster Hinshaw.

Tue, November 17, 2009 - Immigration Services to take a more aggressive stance on H-1B visa enforcement.

Tue, November 17, 2009 - Two million IT positions are expected to have been eliminated from 2000 to 2014, according to Hackett Group, which forecasts an 'extended jobless recovery.'

Tue, November 17, 2009 - Battered by layoffs, hiring freezes and pay cuts, many IT staffers are in no mood to kick it up a notch. Here are nine almost-free ways to light a fire under your workers.

Fri, November 13, 2009 - We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment.

Thu, November 12, 2009 - As the globalization wave reaches emerging markets, IT leaders face new mangement challenges. Here's advice on how to balance the competing—and often conflicting—needs of established and developing business locations.

Tue, November 10, 2009 - Kelli Crane, senior vice president and CIO of Thomson Reuters, shares her hiring practices and interviewing techniques in this final Q&A in CIO.com's series, The Hiring Manager Interviews.

Mon, November 09, 2009 - Sprint Nextel expects to lay off as many as 2,500 people by year’s end, on the heels of reporting that it lost 545,000 customers in its third quarter.

Thu, November 05, 2009 - Security-appliance vendor Blue Coat Systems is laying off of close to 20 percent of its staff and restructuring its business in a drive to increase profitability.

Thu, November 05, 2009 - Why you need an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) manager, and how to go about hiring one.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - The IT jobs market experienced a small upturn in October, according to a survey of recruitment specialists.

Wed, November 04, 2009 - Microsoft is laying off another 800 people, adding to the 5,000 the company has already let go this year.

Tue, November 03, 2009 - Adobe systrems' Acrobat Connect Pro 7.5 can now hold webinars or online lectures for as many as 80,000 participants.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - In a pilot program, Georgia Tech plans to transform unemployed IT professionals into high school computer science teachers.

Fri, October 30, 2009 - The apparent turn in the U.S. economy may have put the brakes on the IT job loss freefall, according to some new data.

Thu, October 29, 2009 - Faced with declining revenue and increased demand for IT services, state and local governments are looking to third-party IT providers for help, even amid some high profile public sector outsourcing disasters. And while offshoring remains off the table for the public sector for now, the recession could force state and local governments to reconsider offshore sourcing options.

Wed, October 28, 2009 - By centralizing labor contract management, Northrop Grumman saved millions.