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Take the silicon.com 2009 Skills Survey
News Highlights of last year's survey include the revelation that the gender pay gap is still alive and kicking in IT, with a third of women in the lowest wage bracket. silicon.com's annual... [25 Jun 2009]
Naked CIO: Don't make a business guy a techie
Comment This gap leads to getting the wrong skills in key positions. Part of the failing of technology within business organisations today is the gap between what organisations need to... [20 Apr 2009]
PC makers warming to OLPC's 'copy us' offer?
News According to Tan, vendors will be most interested in copying its price and optimised operating system - a gap that has not been properly addressed in the mini-notebook market yet. While the OLPC's endeavour would likely... [02 Mar 2009]
Editor's Blog: The footballing CIO
Comment Increasingly, organisations are looking outside of the IT department for their CIO, for someone who can bridge the gap between IT and the rest of the business - but this fusion of tech... [18 Feb 2009]
VoiceXML Application Development Life Cycle: Building Usable Voice User Interfaces
White Paper VoiceXML bridges the gap; it leverages the existing Web infrastructure and enables Web developers to build voice-enabled Web applications accessible from any telephone, by anyone, anywhere, anytime. This... [31 Jan 2009]
Is there a UK IT skills gap or not?
News Is there a UK IT skills gap or not? Asked for views on ways to plug the skills gap, 70 per cent of the almost 450 respondents to the IT... [23 Dec 2008]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo See the full story on the IT gender pay gap. Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Results from the 10th annual silicon.com Skills Survey show a... [16 Dec 2008]
Inbox: Women still getting a rough deal on pay
Comment The gap appears to be widening, not narrowing. For those under 24 the gap was under five per cent, for those under 40 the gap was 10 per cent or less, for those over 50 the... [07 Nov 2008]
CIOs back call for common skills scheme
News The aim of the government is to plug the numbers gap between the 140k vacancies and the 12k IT graduates per annum. Rob Neil, head of ICT services, Ashford Borough Council said: "It's a... [13 Oct 2008]
Migration rules to fuel IT offshoring?
News UK IT sector skills body, e-skills UK, declined to comment for this article. Despite a well-documented domestic IT skills shortage - and projections of... [11 Sep 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News The generation gap in web access persists too - adults aged over 65 are still the least likely to use the web, with 70 per cent stating they have never done so. However, there's evidence the gap is... [27 Aug 2008]
Offshoring sends techies' wages up
News Mid-tier IT staff are seeing their wages take an upward tangent, thanks to a skills shortage spawned by offshoring and a lack of students opting for IT courses. IDS puts the upward... [26 Aug 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Analysts fail on open source
Comment Despite their critics, analysts at their best can bridge a significant gap between vendors and software users. This gap leaves an opening for analysts, who should be relatively neutral about the success... [18 Aug 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment It's encouraging to see organisations addressing the growing IT skills gap in this country, but much more needs to be done if we are to tackle this problem once and for... [11 Aug 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News A foundation degree course will launch at colleges in England this autumn aimed at boosting sought-after tech skills and addressing the nation's IT skills gap. Mike... [06 Aug 2008]
