Recent articles by Ann Bednarz
February 02, 2012
IT pros in Austin, Texas and Portland, Ore. saw the biggest salary gains, according to new data from Dice.com, a career site for technology and engineering professionals.
January 23, 2012
Walmart shuffled its top IT executives last week, promoting former CIO Rollin Ford to the position of chief administrative officer. Karenann Terrell, previously assistant CIO, is the new CIO.
January 19, 2012
U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science and technology economies, the National Science Board (NSB) reported this week.
January 19, 2012
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs received compensation valued at $21.72 million last year, according to documents filed with the SEC. His total package is up 23% from 2010, when he netted a pay package valued at $17.63 million.
January 11, 2012
IBM retained its patent crown for 2011, topping the list of U.S. patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S. company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth place, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services.
January 09, 2012
Apple granted Tim Cook a ‘promotion and retention award’ valued at $376 million when he took over as CEO in August, the company revealed in its 2012 proxy statement, filed Monday with the SEC.
January 06, 2012
As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it's getting harder for IT to maintain application visibility and control performance. Trends such as consumerization, mobility and cloud computing are also increasing business risk, CIOs say.
January 03, 2012
Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics.
December 19, 2011
Across the U.S., research and technology parks are playing a role in job creation and driving economic growth. These business incubators for emerging companies, typically in the science, healthcare and technology fields, are often affiliated with universities, which are prime sources for new ideas and fresh talent in need of a place to grow.
December 02, 2011
IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years.
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