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IT outsourcing in flux

IT outsourcing is not going away anytime soon, but the market is in the midst of some big changes as we report this week. New analysis by Gartner, a leading information technology research and

Smaller firms lead tech recovery

Smaller tech companies are leading the way to hiring new tech workers ahead of the giants like Microsoft and Google. Business Week reports that many smaller companies already have large, multiyear

IBM cuts U.S. jobs, seeks stimulus money

IBM is taking a three-pronged approach to dealing with the current economic crisis. It's laying off as many as 5,000 U.S. workers, transferring work to India, and seeking money from the $787 billion

Sunoco CIO says economic slowdown means adjustments

Peter Whatnell, the CIO at Sunoco Inc, said the secret to running a successful information-technology department is knowing how your company makes money. Success, he said, does not come from running

IDC predicts that some PC makers will be killed off by economic crisis

The ongoing economic crisis could lead to the collapse of some small PC makers, as the industry consolidates, according research firm IDC. This comes weeks after IDC's prediction of slower IT

Is your IT budget flat yet?

Most people in the IT world already know that something is coming down the pike soon, and it's not good. SearchCIO reports that its "TechTarget's 2009 IT Priorities Survey" finds that the sky is not

Is the tech sector in trouble?

So how bad is the current economic crisis for IT? Can IT weather the storm? Steve Minton, vice president of worldwide IT markets at IDC, says, "Companies are in the mindset of not spending in the

Number of IT venture deals drops to a 10-year low

Thanks to the current economic crisis, venture capitalists have pulled back sharply on their investments in U.S.-based tech companies. According to a report due this weekend by Dow Jones