By Martin Zimmerman
LOS ANGELES — The 2010 Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car of the Year at the L.A. Auto Show on Thursday, giving the Germans and clean diesel technology back-to-back wins.
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Audi A3 TDI named Green Car of the Year
December 6, 2009 – 10:42 pm
No shocker: Google prefers HTML5 to Gears
December 1, 2009 – 11:33 pm
By Stephen Shankland
Word from the LA Times is that Google plans to phase out its Gears plug-in in favor of HTML5 when it comes to augmenting browser abilities. The precise details of its enthusiasm for the plug-in aren’t clear yet, but the general trajectory is no surprise.
7 Tips for Job Seekers During the Holidays
November 30, 2009 – 10:04 pm
By Meridith Levinson
CIO - “We’re coming up on the best five weeks of networking for the entire year, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s,” says Dave Sherman, an author, motivational speaker and master networker. “Everyone says there’s never any business during the last five weeks of the year, but it’s a gold mine for networking [...]
Some tech jobs see pay increases
May 2, 2009 – 3:14 am
by Dave Rosenberg
Skilled technologists tend to be able find jobs in economic downturns, even if they don’t find their ideal positions. But getting a raise in a down economy is a tough trick to pull off. The good news is that jobs in open-source software and niche application skills actually saw pay increases, according [...]
Ten ways to make your boss love you - and save your job
April 3, 2009 – 7:10 am
By Andrew Donoghue, ZDNet.co.uk
No matter where you happen to be perched on the IT career tree, the branches are probably looking shaky right now. From chief information officers to IT admin staff, the days of taking continued employment for granted are over.
IT Skills Shortage A Chance for Unemployed Workers
March 13, 2009 – 6:33 am
By Meridith Levinson
(CIO) The argument over the so-called IT skills shortage has two familiar sides: On one hand, employers say they can’t find the skilled IT workers they need to fill jobs. Even today, in the midst of a worldwide economic recession that has left millions of U.S. workers without jobs, employers claim [...]
If you fire people, don’t be a jerk about it
January 13, 2009 – 1:30 pm
By Kelly K. Spors
Mark Eckley can’t forget the day when a former employer informed 100 of his colleagues they no longer had jobs, and then quickly escorted them out the door using security guards to monitor the situation. Managers, he says, then bad-mouthed a few of the employees soon after.