eWeek articles from January 2006

eWeek archives from January 2006

Terror Shadow Stalks India's Booming Tech Industry.
January 1, 2006... NEW DELHI, India--;A suspected militant raid on one of India's top science universities has confirmed fears that the country's booming information technology sector could be a new target for terror groups, officials and analysts said. A...

Dell CEO: Direct Model Is 'Religion'.(views of Kevin Rollins)(Interview)
January 1, 2006... Despite some challenges in 2005, Kevin Rollins, president and CEO of Dell Inc., insists the company's business model is a strong one, and that he sees no significant changes to it in the year ahead. Rollins recently spoke with eWEEK News...

How Serious Is the WMF Vulnerability?(windows meta file)(Column)
January 2, 2006... Depending on where you look, most people are either running in circles hysterically or ho-humming the Windows WMF vulnerability. It does have some of the earmarks of a nasty situation. For one thing, if you're running Windows--;any...

Microsoft: Beware of Third-Party WMF Patch.(Windows Metafile flaw)
January 3, 2006... Microsoft Corp. has slapped a 'buyer beware' tag on a third-party patch for the zero-day Windows Metafile flaw and promised that its own properly tested update will almost certainly ship Jan. 10. The company's latest guidance comes days...

Intel's Site Tips Off Its New Chips.
January 3, 2006... Intel Corp. has unveiled new details about its 2006 chip lineup, which includes its first dual-core notebook chips, on its Web site ahead of their official introductions. The chip maker, in an update of its online price sheet over the past...

Rambus Signs Technology Licensing Deal with AMD.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2006... BOSTON (Reuters)--;Rambus Inc. on Tuesday said that chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to pay $75 million over five years to license Rambus technology for boosting the speed at which computer chips communicate with each other. ...

H&R Block Mailing Reveals Customers' SSNs.(Social Security numbers)
January 3, 2006... Some H&R Block customers who received free copies of the company's TaxCut software also had their Social Security numbers exposed, according to a company spokesperson. H&R Block sent a letter to customers in late December saying that a...

Blue Coat to Acquire Security Company Permeo for $60M.
January 3, 2006... Security appliance maker Blue Coat Systems Inc. said that it is buying Permeo Technologies Inc. of Austin for $60 million in cash and stock. The deal will add Permeo's technology for protecting computer "end points" such as desktop and...

Be Smart About WMF Remediation.(Windows Metafile Flaw)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2006... One way to remedy Microsoft Corp. Windows' insecure handling of WMF graphics files is to go machine-by-machine and unregister the regsvr32 DLL that is at the root of the problem. Until anti-virus vendors release signature files that...

Trapeze to Announce New Turbo-Mode Mobility Point.
January 3, 2006... Wi-Fi hardware and management software maker Trapeze Networks Inc. is readying a new outdoor access point that boasts data throughput rates faster than Fast Ethernet. Trapeze has received federal approval for an outdoor access point called...

Symantec to Acquire IM Security Vendor IMLogic.
January 3, 2006... Security software company Symantec Corp. said Tuesday that it had signed a definitive agreement to buy IMLogic, a maker of security software for instant messaging applications, based in Waltham, Mass. The acquisition for an undisclosed sum...

AMD President: Commercial Space, Here We Come.(Dirk Meyer)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc)(Interview)
January 3, 2006... Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued the momentum generated by Opteron and Athlon 64 into 2005, particularly by beating rival Intel Corp. in releasing dual-core processors. Company officials expect to continue that push that...

Storage Hard Drives Pack into Smaller Devices.
January 3, 2006... Seagate Technology LLC, Cornice Inc. and Western Digital Corp. are kicking off the New Year by introducing a variety of new-look hard drives designed to increase storage performance, efficiency and portability. At the Consumer Electronics...

GM Selects Providers for Dealer Systems.(Quorum Information Technologies Inc.)
January 3, 2006... General Motors Corp. blessed two vendors, the Reynolds and Reynolds Company and Quorum Information Technologies Inc., as providers of management systems for its vehicle retailers. The selection of providers of its IDMS (Integrated Dealer...

Google's Next Move: Consumer Hardware?
January 3, 2006... After so many years of dealing almost exclusively in Internet-based services like search, sources say Google Inc. appears to be entering a new phase focused more on consumer electronics. The Internet giant, based in Mountain View, Calif.,...

SanDisk Shares Jump on Upgrade, Tech Show.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO--;Shares in SanDisk Corp. rose nearly 8 percent Tuesday as the memory card maker was boosted by an analyst upgrade and in anticipation of products to be shown at the year's biggest electronics show. SanDisk shares rose $4.88,...

Piper Raises Google Price Target to $600.
January 4, 2006... LOS ANGELES (Reuters)--;Piper Jaffray on Tuesday raised its price target on shares of Internet search provider Google Inc. by 35 percent to $600 from $445. The new one-year target is the highest of 24 brokers with model prices on the...

Yahoo Options in Demand amid Microsoft Speculation.
January 4, 2006... CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters)--;Many option investors are betting on more gains in the shares of Web media company Yahoo Inc. amid speculation of a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. and high hopes for continued growth in Web advertising. Shares...

AMD Targets Mobile Computing, Emerging Markets.
January 4, 2006... Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday made strides in two areas officials say are important to the company: mobile computing and emerging markets. AMD and Hewlett-Packard Co., on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show...

Ubuntu's Good, but Not Good Enough.(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 4, 2006... I can understand why many people love Ubuntu and its KDE-interfaced brother, Kubuntu. However, neither one is a perfect fit for me. First, the good news: although they go by different names, there's really no fundamental difference between...

ThinkPad Notebooks Get Built-In WAN Tech.
January 4, 2006... Lenovo Group Ltd. and Cingular Wireless LLC on Wednesday announced plans to integrate high-speed wireless WAN technology into upcoming versions of ThinkPad notebooks, without the need for a peripheral PC card. Through the agreement,...

Wyse Rumored to Be Hardware Provider for Google PC.
January 4, 2006... Thin client vendor Wyse Technology Inc. is the latest name to arise among the rumors of a low-cost Google-branded PC. Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is scheduled to deliver a keynote address Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Law...

Google Hardware, Anyone?
January 4, 2006... If I were a competitor and had just heard that Google was "getting into the hardware business," I'd be ecstatic. What better way for an advertising-supported media company, like Google, to wash through a few billion dollars and see the...

Microsoft's WMF Patch Leaks Out.(Windows Metafile )
January 4, 2006... A cryptographically signed version of Microsoft Corp.'s patch for the Windows Metafile vulnerability accidentally leaked onto the Internet late Tuesday, adding a new wrinkle to the company's round-the-clock efforts to stop the flow of malicious...

Former Cyber-Security Chief to Head CIA's Venture Capital Arm.
January 4, 2006... After a brief stint at the Department of Homeland Security, former cyber-security czar Amit Yoran has gone to work for the CIA. More specifically, Yoran this week was named president and CEO of In-Q-Tel Inc., the CIA's venture capital...

BellSouth IPTV Trial Advances with Satellite Deal.(Brief Article)
January 4, 2006... LONDON (Reuters)--;BellSouth, the No. 3 U.S. local telephone company, said on Wednesday it signed a deal to receive satellite video services from SES Global as it moves ahead with test plans to deliver television over the Internet. The...

Netgear to Offer First Wi-Fi Phone for Skype Calling.
January 4, 2006... LAS VEGAS--;Netgear Inc. and Skype, the Web-based calling company which is a unit of eBay Inc., said on Wednesday they plan to introduce the first wireless mobile telephone for Skype. The Netgear Wi-Fi phone is designed to work wherever a...

Massachusetts Sticking with ODF, for Now.
January 4, 2006... When, I first heard that Peter Quinn, the soon-to-be former CIO of Massachusetts was resigning because, "Many of these events have been very disruptive and harmful to my personal well-being, my family and many of my closest friends," I assumed...

Gates to Exhibit Vista Windows Upgrade at CES.
January 4, 2006... LAS VEGAS (Reuters)--;Bill Gates on Wednesday will show an avid tech audience the long-awaited major upgrade to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, called Vista, as the electronics industry's biggest U.S. conference kicks off. ...

Another Unofficial WMF Patch Released.(Microsoft Corp. introduced Windows Metafile flaw)(ESET Software launched software patches)
January 4, 2006... Another unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile flaw is making the rounds. Security vendor ESET, makers of the NOD32 anti-virus program, on Wednesday shipped an interim patch for the bug, almost a week before Microsoft Corp. is scheduled...

Palm, Eyeing BlackBerry, Debuts Treo with Windows.(Brief Article)
January 4, 2006... LAS VEGAS (Reuters)--;Palm Inc. on Wednesday said it has started sales of its Treo mobile phone powered by Microsoft Corp. software, a device that could help Palm compete against Research In Motion's BlackBerry for corporate customers. ...

Yahoo Deal Might Stymie Even Microsoft.
January 4, 2006... At first glance it would seem to be out of character for Microsoft to spend many billions of dollars to buy out a company like Yahoo rather than continue with its dogged strategy of building up its MSN search portal to challenge the dominance...

Gates Pitches CES Crowd on Vista's Content Handling.(Bill Gates at the Consumer Electronics Show speaks about Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system )
January 5, 2006... LAS VEGAS--;Microsoft Corp. wants to make sure its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system won't be all show and no go. To that end, Bill Gates, the company's chairman and chief software architect, demonstrated Vista's ability to offer...

HP, Blackstone May Bid for Computer Sciences-WSJ.(Hewlett-Packard Co. and Blackstone Group L.P. willing to buy Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2006... NEW YORK--; Computer making giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and Blackstone Group, the private equity firm, are examining a possible purchase of Computer Sciences Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the...

Tech Analysts Debate: Will Microsoft Buy Yahoo?(Gordon Haff of Illuminata)(Dan Kusnetzky of IDC)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2006... Was $80 billion too little for Yahoo? If you believe a recent story in the Los Angeles Times, as many stock buyers appeared to have, that was indeed the case. But would such a deal really make sense for the Windows giant? Dan...

HP Eyes CSC to Build Services, Outsourcing Muscle.(Hewlett-Packard Co. is purchasing Computer Sciences Corp. with the help of Blackstone Group L.P.)
January 5, 2006... Hewlett-Packard Co.'s reported interest in buying Computer Sciences Corp. brings its share of benefits and risks, according to industry observers. The move could rapidly grow HP's services and outsourcing business, giving the Palo Alto,...

MS Vista, Office 12 Need Security Edge to Compete.(Windows Vista and Office 12 from Microsoft Corp.)
January 5, 2006... One of the questions for IT managers looking at Windows Vista and Office 12, whether together or separately, is how badly they want to support the new user interfaces and technologies the software presents. Most IT departments I'm familiar...

Will the Sober Worm Spawn?(security measures)
January 5, 2006... At exactly 00:00 hours GMT on Thursday (7 p.m. in New York, 4 p.m. in California), computers already infected with the Sober worm will start connecting to a known list of URLs to download a new mutant. Because this is known, the pre-programmed...

Quinn's Actions Snub His Employer.(Peter Quinn)(government documents management)(Column)
January 5, 2006... My column waving goodbye to Massachusetts state CIO Peter Quinn drove a fair number of people nuts, at least if my inbox is any indication. I can appreciate that people for whom Quinn is a folk hero are a bit touchy about his resignation. ...

Report: Google to Offer Video Downloads, Software Pack.(bundled desktop software package and Video Search service )(Brief Article)
January 5, 2006... Google Inc. plans to announce on Friday a new service that will allow users to buy videos from major content partners through its Web site, and will also announce a new bundled desktop software package, according to a report in the Wall Street...

EMC Spends $30M on Acxiom Grid Technology.(EMC Corp. develops business information grid)
January 5, 2006... EMC Corp. announced plans on Thursday to build and manage grid infrastructure as part of its aggregate $30 million purchase of Acxiom Corp.'s information grid middleware and grid software technology. At the same time, EMC said it is...

MS Rushes Patch as WMF Exploit Tools Surface.(Windows Metafile)(Microsoft Corp. releases software patches)
January 5, 2006... Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that it would release a patch for a critical hole in the Windows operating system five days ahead of the planned release date. The company began releasing a patch for a vulnerability in a Windows component...

New Windows Live Services on the Microsoft Drawing Board.(Consumer Electronics Show)
January 5, 2006... Microsoft didn't show off many new Windows Vista bells and whistles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. But company officials did drop hints about some of the new Windows Live add-on services in the Redmond pipeline. ...

Sony Aims to Harness Demands of Content, Technology.(unveils its plans at the International Consumer Electronics Show)
January 5, 2006... LAS VEGAS--;Sony Corp. wants to rewrite the eBook on IT history. The consumer electronics giant, known for innovative hardware such as the Walkman, game systems like the PlayStation and for content such as music and movies like "Spiderman,"...

Microsoft Ships 'Emergency' WMF Patch.(Windows Metafile vulnerability)
January 5, 2006... Microsoft Corp.'s fix for the Windows Metafile vulnerability will be shipped Thursday as a critical, out-of-cycle update. Reversing an earlier decision to release the patch on Jan. 10., the software maker announced that strong customer...

Linspire, Mirus Partner on Linux-Only Desktop PCs.(Mirus Innovations LLC.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2006... Linspire Inc. and Mirus Innovations LLC Wednesday announced the launch of Koobox, a new line of desktop computers that exclusively run Linux. Starting at $299 (sans monitor), the Koobox PCs come with Linspire's Linux 5.0 operating system. They...

Security Community in Dispute over Severity of WMF Flaw.(ThreatCon design to overcome network threats)(Windows Metafile)
January 5, 2006... Inspired somewhat by the Department of Homeland Security Threat Advisory Level (or was it the other way around?), Symantec maintains a global threat level called ThreatCon, defined as "a measurement of the global threat exposure, delivered as...

Mashups: Remixing the Web.
January 5, 2006... Ask the average person what a mashup is, and they might guess it's the latest exotic drink, or perhaps the result of a particularly nasty car accident. But don't let the goofy name fool you. Mashup refers to a new type of Web site that...

CA Fills Application Management Holes with Wily Buy.
January 5, 2006... In an effort to bulk up the application performance management component of its enterprise systems management business and institute greater focus on key vertical segments, Computer Associates International Inc. announced Thursday that it plans...

AT&T Says May Beat Merger Saving Goals.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2006... LAS VEGAS--;AT&T Inc. believes it will meet or exceed targets it set for merger savings from SBC Communications' purchase of AT&T Corp., the company's chief operating officer Randall Stephenson said on Thursday. "I think we'll be able to...

IBM Takes the Cash out of Venture Capital.(Interview)
January 5, 2006... IBM's Venture Capital Group maintains contacts around the world looking for companies with new ideas and technologies that complement IBM's product line and service offerings. But IBM isn't in the business of investing cash in high-tech...

Accenture Profit Rises; New Orders Soar.
January 5, 2006... BOSTON--;Accenture Ltd., one of the world's biggest consulting and information-technology services firms, Thursday said that its quarterly profit rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier, with new orders near a two-year high. The company's...

MCI Restates Results, to Cut Net Income $52M.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2006... NEW YORK--;MCI Inc., the long-distance phone company being acquired by Verizon Communications, on Thursday said it will reduce reported net income for the first nine months of 2005 by $52 million. The cut is to correct an error related to...

Viagra Packages to Include Anti-Counterfeit Tags.
January 6, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--;Pfizer Inc., in a move to thwart counterfeit Viagra, on Friday said it has included special radio frequency identification tags on all packages of its anti-impotence pill to verify they are the authentic Pfizer product. ...

Oracle 'Worm' Exploit Gets Ominous Tweak.
January 6, 2006... Exploit code for a malicious worm capable of wreaking havoc through Oracle databases has been tweaked and published, prompting a new round of warnings that an actual attack is inevitable. Two months after an anonymous researcher released...

Temporary CIO Steps into Mass. OpenDoc War.(Bethann Pepoli replaced Peter Quinn as a chief information officers)
January 6, 2006... Massachusetts has appointed an acting CIO to fill in for Peter Quinn, who is walking away from the job after bringing OpenDocument and a concomitant fire of controversy to the Commonwealth. The acting CIO, Bethann Pepoli, was formerly the...

Java Development Gets Web 2.0 Treatment.
January 6, 2006... Addressing the issue of bringing Java development more in line with the needs of Web 2.0 developers, an open-source project has emerged to deliver Java support for the Representational State Transfer architectural style. Jerome Louvel, a...

EMC Plans to Lay Off 1,000.
January 6, 2006... Storage market leader EMC Corp. said late Friday that it plans to cut 1,000 jobs and take a charge of about $80 million, but is also raising its revenue target for the fourth quarter. The layoffs are intended to eliminate redundant job...

Survey Predicts Flat Storage Spending in 2006.
January 6, 2006... Storage spending will remain relatively flat in 2006, remaining at about 10 percent of the overall IT budget spending, according to a report by Merrill Lynch & Co. issued this week. The Wall Street brokerage firm surveyed 100 CIOs--;75 from...

McAfee, SEC Settle for $50M.
January 6, 2006... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ordered McAfee Inc. to pay a $50 million penalty Wednesday, bringing to a close a long-running investigation into shady accounting practices at the anti-virus software maker. The SEC filed...

Apple Sues Burst.com over Video Patent Claims.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2006... Apple Inc. sued Burst.com Inc., an audio and video delivery technology company, in U.S. District Court in San Francisco yesterday for declaratory relief, alleging patent invalidity or non-infringement, according to a report on macdailynews.com....

TIAA-CREF Plagued by Platform Upgrade.(Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund)
January 6, 2006... TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association--;College Retirement Equities Fund), one of the nation's largest private retirement systems, has had ongoing issues with internal systems that have caused delayed access to pensioner funds....

Readers Respond to MySQL, Lite Databases Comparison.(Column)
January 6, 2006... It's so simple. If only I'd remembered. Instead of dissing Oracle and trying to wrap my head around SQL injections, all I have to do to get readers' attention is this: Write an article comparing the "lite" versions of proprietary databases to...

eBay Hacker Indicted in Massachusetts.
January 6, 2006... A 20-year-old Massachusetts man has been charged with hacking into dozens of customer accounts at online auctioneer eBay Inc. and racking up $32,000 in charges. Sean Galvez of Boston was indicted on one count of larceny and 10 counts of...

Is Google Pack for the Enterprise?
January 6, 2006... Google Pack, a bundle of software from Google Inc. and other companies that was announced by the Web giant on Friday, is aimed squarely at consumers. But Google's goal is to be the front end for everything people do on a computer, and...

Samsung Sees Fast NAND Growth in 2006.
January 6, 2006... LAS VEGAS (Reuters)--;South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on Friday it expects demand for its NAND-type flash memory to continue on a sharp growth track in 2006, fueled by the popularity of devices like portable music players. ...

Salesforce.com Confirms 'Minor' CRM Outage.
January 6, 2006... Salesforce.com confirmed that it experienced a "minor interruption" Thursday of its hosted customer relationship management application service in the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. However, the interruption occurred "in the...

Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims.(Bill Hilf of Microsoft Corp.)
January 6, 2006... Editor's Note: This story is part one in a series of three stories about Microsoft's Linux and open-source lab. Microsoft Corp.'s Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond campus has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which...

Google to Launch Online Video Store.
January 6, 2006... LAS VEGAS (Reuters)--;Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals,...

Ubuntu Founder Rails Against DCC Alliance.(change of the business association)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2006... The DCC Alliance, made up of several Linux distributors attempting to add LSB (Linux Standard Base) 3.0 compatibility to Debian Linux, has not had an easy time of it. Even before the group was formally launched, other Debian Linux...

Chipmakers Push Vision of Networked Gadgets.(Consumer Electronics Show)
January 6, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--;When people think of consumer electronics, the word "semiconductors" probably doesn't spring immediately to mind. But makers of computer, memory and communication chips are a major force driving the visions of...

IBM to Freeze $48 Billion Pension Plan in 2008.
January 6, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--;Marking the latest U.S. company to move away from a traditional pension plan, IBM said on Thursday it would save billions of dollars by freezing its current plan and boosting its 401(k) savings offering for employees....

Bill Gates Stake in Berkshire Nears $400 Million.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--;Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates paid $6.2 million for an additional 70 shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., increasing his stake in the company to nearly $400 million. Gates, the world's richest...

Dell Cuts Estimate for Fiscal 2007 Options Expense.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2006... BOSTON (Reuters)--;Computer maker Dell Inc. on Friday cut its estimate of what it will cost the company to expense options awarded as employee compensation in fiscal year 2007 by 8 cents a share. Dell now expects to incur full-year...

Intel Brings Internet, Media Content Providers Under Viiv Platform.(Paul Otellini)
January 6, 2006... LAS VEGAS--;As glimpsed from the keynote stage here, Intel Corp. could be said to have a new slogan: Viiv Las Vegas. Paul Otellini, CEO of the chip giant, outlined plans to bring a wide range of content, from sports to first-run movies, to...

Adobe Acquires DRM Technology.(Navisware)
January 9, 2006... Adobe Systems Inc. on Monday acquired the digital rights management business of Navisware. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, allows Adobe to jump into the burgeoning DRM sector and deploy its own technology for protecting Microsoft...

Sage Buys U.S. Payment-Processing Company.(Verus Financial Management Inc.)
January 9, 2006... LONDON (Reuters)--;Sage Group Plc, the UK business software firm, broadened its portfolio beyond accounting products on Monday as it announced the purchase of U.S. payment-processing company Verus Financial Management. Britain's largest...

Paper: Toshiba to Beat Own Profit Forecast by 18%.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... TOKYO (Reuters)--;Toshiba Corp. will likely beat its operating profit forecast for the current business year by 18 percent, driven by robust sales of flash memory chips, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported on Monday. Toshiba,...

Analysts: Apple May Offer New Laptops at Macworld.
January 9, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--;For the Mac faithful this time of year is a special one: The always lively annual Macworld conference that Apple Computer Inc. and co-founder Steve Jobs host in San Francisco. Web sites concerning all things Apple...

ClearNova Open-Sources AJAX Framework.
January 9, 2006... ClearNova Inc. is open-sourcing its Asynchronous Java and XML development platform in an effort to spur the use of AJAX in building rich Internet applications as well as to accelerate sales and services around the company's ThinkCap tool set....

DataSynapse Grid-Enables Informatica's Data Integration.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... DataSynapse Inc. is gluing its GridServer grid software into Informatica Corp.'s PowerCenter data integration platform, the two companies announced Monday. The partnership will result in a seamless interface that lets PowerCenter users...

So What Took SCO So Long?(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... The SCO Group is now trying to make more charges stick in its case against Novell. The only real question about this move is... what took them so long? Apparently they only just realized that (gasp!) Novell sells Linux (another gasp!). I...

Good Work Finally Gets Its Payoff.
January 9, 2006... There's a poster in the gallery of the infamous Despair Inc. whose caption reads, "Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." Much of the mail that I've gotten from IT pros in the last few years has reported that...

No Growth for IT Salaries.
January 9, 2006... Most information technology workers saw little growth in their salary levels during 2005, and many of the professionals shouldn't expect to see significant pay increases any time soon, according to the latest industry wage survey published by...