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The lame duck U.S. Congress returns to work Tuesday with billions of dollars on the line for the IT industry. When the 107th Congress broke in late October for the midterm elections, it left unresolved legislation involving homeland security and a number of budget items that all have financial import for the technology industry. In […]

Following the lead of Microsoft, computer titan IBM will open a computer science lab aimed at the government sector in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington. The company anticipates bringing together IBM staff with public sector employees to develop solutions for homeland security and e-government. The announcement of IBM’s Government Solutions Center comes six weeks […]

Spam is reaching such epidemic proportions that even the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), which has staunchly opposed any federal anti-spam bills in the past, now plans to seek help from Washington in the form of legislation designed to slow the proliferation of “unsolicited and untargeted” e-mail. Earlier this year, the New York-based DMA joined the […]

Forget the regulatory rules that would, or would not, allow the Baby Bells to cut Internet service providers out of the DSL business. Forget the proposals to put the Bells on equal footing with the cable companies offering high speed connections. Forget Tauzin-Dingell. According to a group of Internet analysts and business executives, the answer […]

AeA, the nation’s largest technology trade association, is “cautiously optimistic” about the latest IT job numbers released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics which show the high-tech industry fell by 113,000 jobs (two percent) for the first six months of 2002. Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the AeA’s Special Midyear 2002 […]

The U.S. IT workforce has grown less than one percent since the start of the year, while the demand forecast by IT hiring managers for new workers has dropped sharply according to a newly released update to the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) annual workforce study, Bouncing Back. The Arlington, Va.-based ITAA’s quarterly update […]

WASHINGTON — Three major consumer groups are calling for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to define the common tactics of bulk spammers as unfair and deceptive trade practices as part of a campaign against “an increasingly out-of-control epidemic” of unsolicited e-mail. Unlike previous efforts which have focused on fraudulent products or services offered through e-mail, […]

IBM and a partnership of public safety and transportation agencies in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia have been selected to build a public safety data communications network for the Washington D.C. region. The first interoperable wireless system to span multi-state government jurisdictions, the network will allow officials from more than 40 local, state, […]

A new report from Brainbench detailing the concentrations of certified IT pros in ten key skills areas finds that San Francisco has overtaken Seattle/Tacoma for the highest “IT IQ”. New additions to this year’s tech-savvy metro areas -those with the highest concentrations of certified IT pros- include New York/New Jersey/Connecticut, Washington/Baltimore and Denver/Boulder. The Brainbench […]

According to a new salary survey by online certification company Brainbench, women appear to be rapidly closing the IT wage gap with males in many categories, with females in 2001 earning more than $150,000 outpacing that of males by almost double in companies with sales of more than $1 billion. In what the Chantilly, Va.-based […]