IT job growth more than doubled in January from the previous six-month average, according to TechServe Alliance’s most recent IT Employment Index.

Read the full report at the TechServe Alliance website. And check out Millennium Consulting’s website and job board for the latest and best IT jobs.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 11:43 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The web was abuzz this week with news of the release of Apple’s new iPad. As you might expect, opinions differ on the new device’s virtues. 

The unveiling also raised some less-publicized issues about the rather uninspired name Apple gave its latest release. If Fujitsu–or Siemens or STMicroelectronics–original makers of a dissimilar iPad prevail, Apple will at least have a second chance to come up with a catchier name. For instance: anything else.

What do you think about Apple’s iPad?

This entry was posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 2:06 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Forrester Research Inc. has issued a new report predicting the worldwide IT spending slump is over.

“All the pieces are in place for a 2010 tech spending rebound,” said Andrew Bartels, Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst.

Forrester projects IT spending will “[rise] more than 6 percent” in the next year.

AFP has the rest here.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 at 12:36 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

As 2009 winds down, PC World has a piece on the overflowing sacks of unspent IT stimulus money sitting underneath the White House Christmas tree.

Millennium Consulting wishes Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year to all our clients, consultants and friends.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

A short item to whet your appetITe and tide you over until tomorrow’s feasting.

Ajay Kamalakaran at Reuters offers, in a brief space, examples of Infosys’ trend-bucking and trendsetting: including the company’s aversion to acquisitions and one innovative approach to engineering corporate harmony.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our clients, consultants and friends on behalf of everyone at Millennium Consulting.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 8:14 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

As President Obama tours Asia, Fiona Harvey of the Financial Times has a piece on China’s push to overtake the US in green tech.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 12:26 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

There’s no shortage of optimism about future IT job growth in a new study commissioned by Microsoft. The boldest prediction: “More information-technology jobs will be created in the next four years, about three times faster than the projected rate of worldwide general employment…”

Sharon Chan has the details at The Seattle Times’ Microsoft PriO blog.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 12:43 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

In the wake of the T-Mobile debacle, PC Magazine’s Lance Ulanoff looks for the silver lining in cloud computing.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 11:04 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Here’s a two-for-one Oracle post.

Read Bob Evans’s ”Global CIO: An Open Letter To Oracle CEO Larry Ellison” over at InformationWeek. Evans takes Ellison to task for obsessing over competitors at the expense of Oracle’s customers.

This piece from Reuters, however, suggests Ellison might have something other than his usual cast of bugbears to worry about.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 6:23 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

There may be cause for cautious optimism about IT hiring over the next few months. And, according to a new BusinessWeek post, at least one recent survey suggests numbers will be strongest in a key Millennium territory.

The survey concludes ”CIOs [in New England and South Atlantic states are] projecting a net increase of 4 percent in hiring.”

Rachael King has the scoop on BusinessWeek’s Technology At Work Blog. As she notes, this modest uptrend may bode well for 2010.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 8:11 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.