Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009
CIOs plan sharp reductions in contract staff, professional services and hardware, and almost no investment in cloud computing, according to a Goldman Sachs survey. Read more...

Barclays to cut 1,800 U.K. IT staffers in offshoring move

Outsourcing Deal, Layoffs Lead to End of Tax Breaks

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Tax break fuels anger over outsourcing-related layoffs in Fla.

AT&T rolls out digital content delivery system

Bush Administration: Tech workers won't be hurt by visa extension

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AFL-CIO says student visa extension hurts tech wages

In Congress, H-1B issue pits tech workers against farm groups

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Global Dispatches
Brief news items about international IT developments.

Career Watch
Pay for IT certifications continues to fall; the economic slowdown hits the tech sector.

Sun lays off 1,000 employees
Sun laid off about 1,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada as part of a restructuring announced in May to counter a drop in revenue resulting from the economic downturn.

How to Get Value From Outsiders
Paul Glen has discovered the secret to getting value from outside service providers. It's all about what you call them.

Quality Over Quantity
This drug firm's approach to application support uses more service-level metrics and fewer vendors.

Opinion: Companies can't afford not to have vendor management offices
Their combination of hard- and soft-dollar savings should make them an easy sell, even in tough economic times.

How to evaluate vendor performance
McDonald's supplier of the year award offers tips for getting the most from your technology vendors.

HP+EDS & You
The job security of EDS employees isn't the only thing that will get more precarious after the company merges with HP, Frank Hayes argues.

China rising: If you know Mandarin and management, you're in
Go east, young men and women, go east: American expats with a facility for languages and a sense of adventure are reporting that opportunities abound in China.

Career advice: Is programming headed for extinction in the U.S.?
Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Vidya Byanna answers questions on career longevity, office politics, mentoring and more.

With the opening of Apple's App Store, the iPhone takes a revolutionary leap from cool mobile phone to hot mobile platform. See our list of apps you should definitely check out for yourself. Its motto is "Don't be evil" — but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game — not to mention some wildly rumored projects that we asked the company to confirm or deny. The talk at three big research houses is all about "open innovation." Is that a feel-good catchphrase or the R&D strategy of the future? After months of waiting for a 3G-based iPhone — and hours waiting in line to actually buy one — Ryan Faas says it "packs quite a punch, both in its design and in the 3G and GPS capabilities" it offers.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

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