Economy news from FierceCIO

The results are in: Microsoft sold significantly more copies of the Windows 7 operating system in the week after its official launch than was achieved by Windows Vista in 2007. To be precise,... Read more...

In a sign that the economy is truly starting to pick up, Google has announced that it plans to resume hiring and begin to acquire new companies again. This comes on the heels of the company reporting... Read more...

It may be hard to believe, but the results of a new survey by ExecuNet finds that most employed IT executives are more satisfied with their jobs this year than they have been in previous years.... Read more...

Mainframes may be an old idea, but they are still popular in the workplace. A new Information Week survey found that 831 business tech professionals say mainframes are still alive and being used at... Read more...

Something big is happening in the gilded world of information technology. The unemployment rate has climbed to 12 percent in Silicon Valley, and jobless workers are abandoning IT and trying to move... Read more...

The economy is supposed to be getting better, right? Unfortunately, there's still plenty of evidence that the IT market is hurting. Cisco reportedly laid-off 700 workers last week from its San Jose... Read more...

Okay, you already know it's a dry spell, even for technology. The IT unemployment rate last quarter rose to 4.1 percent, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the Information... Read more...

There is a channel shortage of larger capacity hard disk drives (HDD) for laptops and it looks like it will continue through the third quarter, at least. Ironically, the genesis for the tight supply... Read more...

Let's face it: The demand for IT personnel has never dropped. It's just that the number of companies hiring full-time workers has declined. Two job sites that match employers with temporary IT... Read more...

Business intelligence tools are an essential part of any enterprise. But with the economy still in a downturn, IT organizations aren't rushing to buy newly created BI software. Instead they are... Read more...