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The Hispanic population in the U.S. is booming and will continue to grow, but Latinos now fill only a small percentage of technology jobs. IBM hosted a summit in New York this week with leaders from Read more...

American IT professionals often complain that they are being undercut by the H1-B Visa system when companies hire foreign workers at lower salaries even when qualified, tech-savvy U.S. citizens are Read more...

Getting ahead in the IT world is not always easy. Like any work environment, there are internal politics, changing conditions and sometimes few opportunities for advancement. CIOs and IT recruiters Read more...

It is a widely held belief that getting stuck at the IT help desk is a one-way ticket to Palookaville. An individual gets hired for that job and never leaves, in stove-piped organizations where Read more...

IT executives often focus on data center replication, building design and backups when doing disaster planning. Yet experts say that recovery plans should be customized for whichever type of major Read more...

There's a great deal of talk in the industry about making data centers more environmentally sound but it seems that it's just talk at the moment. A new survey finds that despite the best intentions, Read more...

A federal appeals court has made it easier for customs officials to search through the contents of a person's laptop. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that agents Read more...

In tough times and good ones, money talks. A recent survey by Robert Half Technology found that more than a quarter of 1,400 CIOs surveyed say that increasing a person's salary is the most effective Read more...

A new British survey is likely to cause a furor everywhere. The poll, by Infosecurity Europe, of 576 office workers found that 45 percent of women revealed their passwords to strangers posing as Read more...

Don't be surprised if it gets harder for new IT graduates to get a job. Advanced Micro Devices announced last week that it was slashing 10 percent of its workforce. Dell is in the process of laying Read more...