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An Early Spring for IT Job Growth

kyle — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:43:32 +0000

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.

iPadding Around the Web

kyle — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:06:32 +0000

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?

2010: Year of the IT?

kyle — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:36:27 +0000

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.

Happ eHolidays

kyle — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:25:27 +0000

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.

Quick Byte Before Dinner

kyle — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:14:07 +0000

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.

Green With Envy

kyle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:23 +0000

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.

Treble Ahead, Trouble Behind?

kyle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:43:19 +0000

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.

Silver Lining

kyle — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:04:29 +0000

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

Oracular Speculation

kyle — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:23:02 +0000

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.

Right place, right time

kyle — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:11:08 +0000

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.