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As the election season moves into high gear, the rhetoric surrounding outsourcing versus hiring domestically is predictably rising. The White House jumped into the fray last week, hosting an " Read more...

Steve Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56. Apple, the company that he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976, announced that it "has lost a visionary and a creative genius, and the world has lost an Read more...

IT pros who are veterans or who have been unemployed for more than six months could benefit from the job creation plan President Barack Obama outlined before Congress last week. Under the American Read more...

If businesses are calling on CIOs to provide strategic direction, the job should also entail offering insight on technology's role in over-arching objectives, not just specific operations. Read more...

Much has been made of the many uncertainties facing businesses and their IT executives in the year ahead, but one area in which there is sure to be movement is data privacy policy. Leaked, stolen and Read more...

President Obama, speaking to the graduating class at Hampton University in Virginia Sunday, rued the rising tide of consumer electronics gadgetry, which he said diminishes the educational and Read more...

You've seen her in Michigan, you've seen her in California, and now Teri Takai appears to be headed to the Pentagon. The White House said President Obama will nominate Takai, currently CIO for Read more...

President Obama spoke to a community college in New York State this week where he underscored how his stimulus plan would provide training and job opportunities in emerging technologies. He told a Read more...

It's no surprise that the United States is No. 1 on many lists, but this one is a painful headache. Security firm Sophos said the United States was responsible for nearly 16 percent of all spam Read more...

The Department of Homeland Security is seeing an increase in employer use of the controversial program, E-Verify, according to USA Today. In the first six months of this year, 5.5 million checks have Read more...