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Report: The Best and Worst U.S. Cities for Jobs in Technology
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Report: The Best and Worst U.S. Cities for Jobs in Technology

If you're looking for a job in technology, get out of New Jersey, fast. Get out of Birmingham, Alabama. Cross the river to New York, or the country to San Francisco...

Nbc, Google, Stage 'war Games' To Prepare For Olympic Disruptions
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Nbc, Google, Stage 'war Games' To Prepare For Olympic Disruptions

NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online...

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again
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In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again

Since the mid-1990s Liam Casey, PCH International's chief executive officer, has helped technology companies with the nastiest task in Silicon Valley: building...

Doing Apps and Start-­ps While Still in High School
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Doing Apps and Start-­ps While Still in High School

Like many young entrepreneurs here in Silicon Valley, Matthew Slipper knows that success does not come easy.

Six-Figure It Salaries Not Just For Cios, Svps
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Six-Figure It Salaries Not Just For Cios, Svps

Information architects, data security analysts, and user experience designers often see salaries top $100,000, according to Robert Half Technology.

Brilliant Computer Scientist Deborah Estrin Hired to Work at New York City's New Genius School at Cornellnyc Tech
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Brilliant Computer Scientist Deborah Estrin Hired to Work at New York City's New Genius School at Cornellnyc Tech

Computer scientist whose cutting-edge work links technology and health care is the first professor hired to work at the city’s new genius school.

'Girls Who Code' Looks to Close the Tech Gender Gap
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'Girls Who Code' Looks to Close the Tech Gender Gap

A slight media kerfuffle broke out this week after The Daily Beast released its Digital Power Index, a list of the 100 most influential people in the tech world...

Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, Study Says
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Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, Study Says

Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants...

Nokia Late to the Silicon Valley Party
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Nokia Late to the Silicon Valley Party

Nokia Corp. is hitting the reset button on its U.S. operations from a place some would argue the struggling Finnish handset maker should have been years ago: Silicon...

How Garmin Failed to See the Iphone Threat
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How Garmin Failed to See the Iphone Threat

About nine years ago, I had a question for Min Kao, the CEO of the GPS concern Garmin. His answer was determined, and I thought of it as I watched the news from...

Four Elite CIOs Share Lessons
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Four Elite CIOs Share Lessons

A recent panel at the annual meeting of ACM's Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems included four chief information officers, who shared real...

Meet the Intel Man Who's Out to Beat Arm in Smartphones
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Meet the Intel Man Who's Out to Beat Arm in Smartphones

It's not often you meet someone in the tech industry for whom the only way is up, but Intel's Michael A. Bell is one of those people.

An Inside Job: More Firms Opt to Recruit From Within
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An Inside Job: More Firms Opt to Recruit From Within

Many firms are ramping up internal hiring efforts to boost intra-organization mobility, cut recruiting costs, and retain high performers. These initiatives reflect...

'brave' Director Talks About the Pixar Process
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'brave' Director Talks About the Pixar Process

Mark Andrews has worked in animation and live-action as a storyboard artist, story supervisor, writer, and even as a voice actor, including The Incredibles, John...

New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers
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New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers

Mikko Hypponen enjoys his position as the chief research officer at the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure. He has no intention of leaving. But lately, he's...

­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
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­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes

The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...

Soldiers Becoming Scientists
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Soldiers Becoming Scientists

Proposed in 2007 and enacted in 2008, the newest version of the U.S. military's veterans education program—variously known as the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Webb GI...

In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend
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In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend

The 310 SUGV is a distant cousin of the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner currently being promoted as a Father's Day gift. In Afghanistan, the Marines call him...

H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
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H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B

For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled.

­p-and-Coming Tech Jobs
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­p-and-Coming Tech Jobs

With big data, mobile computing, social media, and cloud computing all shaping the future of IT, new and intriguing job titles like "cloud transformation officer"...
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