IT employment grew by 0.37 percent, or 14,000 jobs, in February, one of the strongest month-to-month gains since 2008, according to the TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group that analyzes U.S. Labor Department unemployment data. In January, IT employment increased by 12,900 jobs, TechServe Alliance reported.
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IT adds 25,000-plus jobs so far in 2010
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:33pm EST by admin
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Cast Iron rolls out OmniConnect data integration kit
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:25pm EST by admin
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Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios.
Cast Iron OmniConnect, to be available Tuesday, represents an evolution of the vendor's existing IaaS (integration as a service) and on-premises offerings. It is available in on-demand form, as an on-premises or hosted virtual appliance, or as a hardware appliance.
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Microsoft reportedly moves up Windows 7 SP1 release date
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:10pm EST by admin
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Even though Microsoft has dropped a plan to wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack, it won't deliver the update before the fourth quarter of this year, a site that has accurately predicted past Windows timetables said today.
Microsoft would be smart to reconsider and delay a service pack as long as possible, one analyst countered.
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New Capgemini unit to offer cloud help
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:51pm EST by admin
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The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.
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Eclipse restructures Mylyn task-focused interface project
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:00am EST by Paul Krill
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The Eclipse Foundation on Monday is announcing a restructuring of its Mylyn task-focused interface project, adding subprojects for several functions.
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Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:38am EST by admin
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The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday.
According to researchers at US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC.
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Intel investigating sale of fake Core i7 chip
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:11am EST by admin
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Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there.
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IBM looks to pair security technologies for software development
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:00am EST by Paul Krill
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Honing in on the need for more security in application development, IBM Rational is planning an enterprise-level product that features two separately acquired technologies for security testing and code scanning.
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Appcelerator releases Titanium cross-platform app dev technology
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 7:00am EST by Paul Krill
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Appcelerator will release on Monday version 1.0 of Titanium, its cross-platform system for building native mobile and desktop applications.
Titanium leverages Web development technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. For mobile application builders, this means they do not need to learn the Objective-C language for iPhone or Google's Java language for Android systems. A translator enables applications to run natively on different platforms.
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AMD tries to draw Intel into chip battle
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 7:01pm EST by admin
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AMD is offering prizes to drum up more interest ahead of this month's launch of its 12-core server chip, as rival Intel also has server-chip launch plans.