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Tech grads finding it harder to land job in IT
News The number of tech graduates landing roles as IT consultants, software professionals and computer programmers fell by 18 per cent year-on-year, while those getting jobs as technician/helpdesk support... [12 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment I would never use Facebook to find a job; it's simply not what it's structured for. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks; open source advocates hit... [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October also saw the ninth annual silicon.com Agenda Setters list of the most influential individuals in tech go live - with Apple CEO Steve Jobs being voted number one. Steve Jobs' agenda-setting wasn't... [09 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up One anonymous reader of the story even offered their sophisticated barter-based price list for IT jobs on the side: a case of beer for a 'simple IT fix' along the lines of slow-running... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Often the tape would burst - it could happen very easily - and would fly across the other side of the room, causing people to scream and jump out of the way. One did not realise at the time that what had been invented... [05 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News What do Blighty's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? More than a third (37 per cent) of IT technicians admit taking on extra work outside office hours, a survey has revealed. Almost half of... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Although Microsoft aims to use ambient air when it can, it also uses chillers to keep the servers cool on hotter days. Although the datacentre is massive, it is managed with a staff of... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Round and tiny, it was fine if you were a pixie. The mouse was a key selling point of the first Macintosh in 1984, as it allowed the Mac user to break free from the command-line prompt and explore... [03 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News It's no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of IT priorities. In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green... [29 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet It also picked out Android and iPhone as the two platforms where AR, used for personal navigation applications, is seeing the strongest early takeup. Is this another name for Apple CEO Steve Jobs'... [27 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment It's using much the same argument as it did with Vista but may find it harder to peddle the same line with Redmond's latest offering. The Get a Mac ads rubbed it in for... [20 Oct 2009]
Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
News It wasn't such a rosy picture for the technology industry, however: the number of UK IT jobs being advertised online dropped three per cent month-on-month in September - with vacancies... [14 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment Some claimed the Mac-phobia was really a way to save IT jobs. Seems to me that a lot less tech support staff would be required if businesses switched over to the Mac OS so the switch is not so much a... [13 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up No idea, I just read it on her Facebook status. Good news for Mac fans - and on top of that Steve Jobs has also been voted the most influential individual in the global technology industry. That's either... [09 Oct 2009]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile Steve Jobs becomes the only person, in the 10-year history of Agenda Setters, to have made it to the top of the list - twice. Whether it is launching new products - such as the souped-up... [08 Oct 2009]