C.S. Magor
Cat Miller
Dale Reynolds
David Brumbaugh
Dawn Kawamoto
Don Willmott
Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Lekan Oguntoyinbo
Leslie Stevens-Huffman
M Noivad
Mark Feffer
nick kolakowski
Stephen Lahanas
Susan Hall
People Moves: Information Transport Solutions, RingCentral, Zumbox
A quick look at some of the movement among IT people this week: As part of its initiative to transition from an owner-operated business model to an executive leadership model, data solutions company Information Transport Solutions separated its CEO position into three distinct roles: CEO, COO and CFO. Steve Meany, previously a manager at Cisco, was hired as CEO. Meanwhile, Quincy Minor, previously Vice President of Operations, transitioned to the COO position and Jeff Drury, who acted as COO and… continue…
NSA Revelations: Has The Planet Gone Mad?
It was intriguing to see the tech community’s response to the NSA information-gathering revelations last week. High drama was the order of the day after The Guardian broke the story of a National Security Agency contractor releasing some strategic, classified PowerPoint slides, then hightailing into the shadows of Hong Kong. Dozens of NSA, spying and civil liberties stories dominated tech media outlet giants like YCombinator, ZDNet and GigaOM. As you’d expect, talk radio was abuzz with speculation and commentary. High-ranking,… continue…
Feds Closing Data Centers Find 3,000 Additional Ones
Feds Closing Data Centers Find 3,000 Additional Ones (via slashdot) Following a string of startling revelations, Congress has stepped in to change the way certain federal agencies use their datacenters, and investigate what appear to be gross misrepresentations in reports about what agencies are actually doing with billions of dollars’ worth of IT. No, the changes… continue…
Developers Mull New Tech Strategies After E3
Through new consoles and new games to run on them, E3 saw the introduction of a range of technologies and capabilities that left developers, engineers and other game professionals with greater insight into the skills they need to develop if they’re going to continue their success in the field. “The things that I saw at E3 that inspired me were a lot of new technologies that are multi-core or multi-thread,” said Shawn Halwes, a programmer at Ragtag Studio. In a… continue…
Symantec Layoffs Could Hit 8 Percent of Workforce
Symantec has begun laying off up to 1,700 employees — 8 percent of its workforce — as it struggles to turn around its lagging business. The downsizing is part of a reorganization the company announced in January. On Friday, a spokeswoman told AllThingsD that the reorganization is part of an effort to make the company’s reporting structure “more efficient.” She continued, “There are several stages to the reorganization process, as we define executive and management layers down to all levels… continue…
The Beginning of the End of Security Theater
You often hear airport TSA checkpoints described as “security theater” because despite their imposing presence and processes, passengers still sneak contraband onto commercial flights. In IT, we see similar performances – and results. For us, security theater has manifested itself as the deployment of layers of technology like antivirus, Web filters, password policies, encryption, multi-factor authentication and on and on. When a breach and data loss does occur, IT does not hold itself liable because of all the measures that… continue…
Tech Unemployment Numbers Hint at Demand for Women
For the past three consecutive months, the unemployment rate for women in IT has been lower than that of men, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The latest figures, from May, show the women’s tech unemployment rate stood at 3.0 percent compared to 3.6 percent for men. A year earlier, the women’s rate was 6.8 percent compared to 2.3 percent for men. Digging into the Numbers When it comes to computer and math jobs, men outnumber women by a… continue…
Google Execs Predict a Future of Online Turmoil
Despite the seismic changes wrought by the Internet over the past 20 years, there’s a sense out there that we’re really only getting started. Who better to piece together a book full of sweeping predictions about the Internet’s impact going forward than Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations? In The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and… continue…
This Week’s Most Popular Stories
For your reading pleasure, here are the stories most read by your fellow Dice users this week. Already Know the Interview Solution? Say Something: While some candidates don’t prepare at all for coding / algorithms interviews (eek!), others spend so much time preparing that they already know the answers to problems. “Score!” they think. “Now I’ve nailed the question.” Oh, how very, very misguided that is. Unemployed? Use Your Workforce Investment Board: If you’re looking for a tech job in… continue…
Delving into IBM’s Layoff Numbers
When you don’t know which departments will be hit with a layoff, look at the revenue-light or money-losing divisions. Such is the case with IBM, which disclosed in April that it expected to take a $1 billion restructuring charge during the second quarter. The company began cutting jobs earlier this week, to the tune of 2,286 as of Thursday night, according to Alliance@IBM, a website run by the CWA Local 1701, an IBM employees’ union. Here’s a look at its… continue…
