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Apps-related jobs tallied at 466K in U.S.
Nearly half a million jobs in the U.S. have been created because of the 1 million-plus applications designed for smartphones, tablets and other...
Engineer's wife 'ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs
The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in...
VMTurbo upgrade supports the three major virtualization platforms
VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.
Apple Aims iPads at High Schools
Would you fork out a few hundred dollars for an iPad so your kid can keep up with classmates? An IT director of public schools in Ohio discusses the...
U.S. tech firms add jobs despite automation
U.S. tech firms are investing more in machines than in people, but IT hiring is still rising, according to a new report by Forrester and a...
Apple's e-textbook gambit just 'a 70% solution,' says analyst
Apple today announced iBooks Author and iBooks 2, free applications that let educational publishers and teachers create and market K-12 textbooks and...
Mac attack
Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with....
U.S. report sees perils to America's tech future
The ability of the U.S. to compete globally is eroding, according to a Commerce Department report released Friday that described itself as a "call to...
Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues
Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and...
MIT to open source educational software
As part of an initiative to expand its online course offerings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to release as open source the...
New year, new job? Ten companies that are hiring
Even in this today's struggling economy, there are rapidly expanding companies that have big tech hiring targets.
How to get your kid into an elite computer science program
High school seniors are facing stiffer-than-ever competition when applying to the nation's top computer science programs this fall. But admissions...
Hottest major on campus? Computer science
The nation's best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for a record number of applications this fall, as more high school seniors are...
Open-source proponents blast proprietary software in Dutch schools
Dutch education authorities have decided to throw out their government’s own open standards policy and instead lock-in to Microsoft proprietary...
GOP advances bill to help China, India tech grads
A key House committee this week approved a Republican-sponsored high-skill immigration bill intended to help advanced degree holders in India and...
Chicago-area school district gives free iPads to freshmen
Freshmen in a Chicago-area school district now have a reason to be excited about coming to school: Free iPads.
10 questions for CDW CFO Ann E. Ziegler
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Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz
Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme...
Mobility surges on US campuses; cloud technology lags
Colleges and universities have been aggressive in expanding campus mobility, but slower in shifting key systems to cloud computing, according to a...
Google is most-sought employer -- again
If you're a college student and want to work for Google, you're definitely not alone.
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