James Maguire

Yes, the IT job market is tough these days. It’s a far cry from the late nineties, when just showing up with a pulse earned you a signing bonus. I’m told by top IT employment specialists that these days even highly qualified tech professionals can’t always find positions, at least not easily. Employers know they […]

Among the top netbooks, which one is the very best? Leave your comment below. Choosing the top netbook – that is, the top netbook for you – requires deciding which options are most important to you. In other words, the “best” netbook is the one that best fits your own individual fingers, budget, and desire […]

IT manager salary levels have suffered in this economic downturn just like salaries for many other positions. Most IT managers’ salaries have been flat to modestly down, as shown by the IT salary data below. Okay, that’s the bad news. The good news is that IT manager salary levels continue to be healthy. Upper five […]

How do you know if a cloud computing vendor is secure? After all, you’re trusting them with highly sensitive data and business critical processes. Your entire business may rest on your ability to evaluate their level of security. When they make claims about their nearly absolute level of safety, should you just…take their word for […]

A free iPad app is a cool thing. After all, you’ve already bought the pricey iPad — shouldn’t the apps be free? If the universe itself were totally cool (which, alas it’s not always), all iPad apps would be free iPad apps. Okay, but just being a free iPad app isn’t enough. (In fact there […]

American dominance of technology continues unabated, as giants like Microsoft, Google and IBM shape the landscape with big ideas and big dollars. Yet one species in this thriving landscape is clearly beleaguered: the American IT worker. His challenges are numerous. A brutal recession makes hollowed-out companies hesitant to hire. Wages are stagnant. Well-educated H1B visa […]

For more IT salary data, also see: The 2011 IT Salary Guide The 2010 IT Salary Guide IT Salary 2009: Survey Says Modest Declines Are These Developer and IT Salary Figures Accurate? For lists of IT salary levels, go to: IT Salary: IT Executives IT Salary: IT Managers IT Salary: Developers, Programmers IT Salary: Various […]

The sometimes arcane topics of business intelligence software and business analytics don’t get a lot of headlines, nor are they particularly sexy (well, not to most people). However, they’re crucially important: these methods of mining data may very well determine which businesses succeed and which fail. That’s why companies with the money to invest are […]

ALSO SEE: Are Developer Certifications Worthless? The value of IT certificationsis a constant debate in the tech industry. Some veteran IT professionals claim they’re of limited value, while others see them as key building blocks for a better career. The IT job site Dicesurveyed 17,000 technology professionals to see which of the many certifications was […]

The term “endpoint virtualization” is an umbrella term that refers to any technology that abstracts the end user experience from the physical hardware that delivers that experience. For instance, software as a service allows staff to use applications that reside across the country (or the globe) from where they sit. A popular use of endpoint […]