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Teradata partners with Hortonworks on Hadoop
Growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors...

EMC joins forces with Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies
EMC today formally announced a reseller partnership with MapR, which makes a proprietary MapReduce file...

Hadoop skills are in high demand
Growing enterprise interest in Hadoop and related technologies is driving demand for professionals with...

Cloudera intros Hadoop management tools
Startup Cloudera is introducing a set of applications on Friday for working with Hadoop, the open-source...

Indian trade body objects to Ohio offshore outsourcing ban
India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) on Wednesday described Ohio's...

Indian IT group says H-1B fee hike will hurt U.S. hiring
A U.S. Senate plan to hike H-1B fees on offshore firms was met with sharp criticism by India's largest...

House Immigration Bill Would Overhaul H-1B Visa Program
A new House immigration bill would increase the supply of H-1B visas and create a new agency to examine...

Offshore Outsourcer Patni Braces for H-1B Restrictions
Offshore outsourcer Patni say the high U.S. unemployment rate has enabled it to increase its American...

Surprise plunge in financial sector IT contractor jobs
The number of jobs offered to IT contractors in the financial services sector dropped 47 percent in August,...

Public sector IT brain drain warning as jobs plummet
Just four percent of new IT jobs are in the public sector, according to recruitment company ReThink Recruitment....

IT jobs market expands despite public sector recession
The IT jobs market for permanent staff has increased at its fastest rate for more than three years, according...

Tech employment steady, latest Census figures show
While total U.S. employment dropped by almost 6 million people from 2008 to 2009, jobs in the computer/mathematics...

Gartner: CIOs must live by the new rules
As business leaders increasingly look to IT to drive business results, now is the opportunity for CIOs...

Gartner lays out Top 10 strategic technologies
At this week's Gartner Symposium in Sydney, the analyst firm presented its top 10 strategic technologies...

As Gartner expands, so does the competition
Gartner Inc. said today it is acquiring enterprise IT advisory firm the Burton Group for $56 million,...

Gartner: Demand from China’s IT subsidies to peak this year
China's economic stimulus policies aimed at boosting demand for IT products will have their greatest...

Up turn in jobs market points to skills shortage
The Australian ICT industry is on the brink of slipping back into a chronic skills shortage, just as...

Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports
There's a shortage of .Net talent in every area of the U.S., says Dice.com. Tech professionals who regularly...

H-1B visas need to be easier to get, business leaders tell Congress
Business leaders asked a congressional subcommittee on Thursday to clear some of the red tape required...

How to Save U.S. IT Jobs
While popular in the halls of Congress, the additional H-1 B visa fees tacked on to the most recent immigration...

Why Social Media Can’t Win Swing Votes – Mashable

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Why Social Media Can't Win Swing Votes
Mashable
The 2012 election is supposedly set to showcase how well candidates understand and leverage the deep nuances of social media and the endless amounts of big data available. Political strategists believe they will identify what people really care about …
Infographic: How Obama, Romney (and Friends) Are Using Social MediaAdAge.com
Obama more active on social media, with less focus on jobs, report showsCBS News
Ron Dzwonkowski: Obama more active on social media, Romney offers more …Detroit Free Press
The Hill (blog) -PC Magazine -Orlando Sentinel (blog)
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Net filter causes IT industry vote swing
The mandatory Internet filtering scheme could sway votes against the Rudd Government when the IT industry...

Wikileaks causes ‘need to know’ pendulum to swing again
If you are in the security profession long enough, you realize that security policies are generally a...

How to Master Your Social Media Swing – MarketWatch (press release)
How to Master Your Social Media SwingMarketWatch (press release)KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire...

Smartphone blockbuster: Which is right for you?
It's the end of June, which means that summer's in full swing and the world's top handset manufacturers...

President Obama Dominates Mitt Romney… In Social Media Use – New York Daily News (blog)

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President Obama Dominates Mitt Romney… In Social Media Use
New York Daily News (blog)
In a study of content from June 4-17, the Obama camp published 614 posts on social media sites, compared to just 168 from Romney. In that same time, Obama's Facebook posts garnered more than 1.1 million "likes" to Romney's 633000, the president's …
Obama more active on social media, with less focus on jobs, report showsCBS News
Obama Tweets More Than Romney, Wins Social Media SmackdownCIO
Study: Obama leads Romney in social media activityThe Hill (blog)
PC Magazine -mediabistro.com -BuzzFeed
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Obama Tweets More Than Romney, Wins Social Media Smackdown
President Obama's reelection campaign's online efforts far exceed those of GOP challenger Mitt Romney....

Obama and Romney election apps suck up personal data, research finds
Millions of US voters could be downloading smartphone apps created to promote the campaigns of President...

Obama, Romney Big Fans of Social Media — as a Broadcast Platform – AdAge.com
Hollywood ReporterObama, Romney Big Fans of Social Media -- as a Broadcast PlatformAdAge.comBoth President...

Romney Talks Technology Innovation, Hands-off Government
Branding Obama stimulus endeavors the work of a 'crony capitalist,' GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney...

Social Media Makeovers: How’s YOUR Online Image? – Huffington Post

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Social Media Makeovers: How's YOUR Online Image?
Huffington Post
Most young adults looking for jobs or just trying to keep a decent reputation are scared of social media biting them in the ass. They change their Facebook names to their nicknames, stop accepting friend requests from people they've never met, lock …
How to have a gaffe-free cyber social lifeDAWN.com

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Tech Audit: Real Tech Makeovers For Real Companies
PC World is proud to announce Tech Audit, an exciting new series featuring hands-on technology expertise...

InDesign tip: Resize image and frame simultaneously
For users of recent versions of InDesign, the confusion over how to resize an image instead of cropping...

Google Image Search Ads: Why You Should Care
Google, in addition to announcing a redesign of its Image Search on Tuesday, also launched a new ad format...

Google Image Swirl: A Hands-On Tour
Google's firing back at Bing with a brand new visual image search feature. Google Image Swirl, announced...

Why McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy – Huffington Post (blog)

Why McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy
Huffington Post (blog)
A recent McKinsey study concludes that social technologies could potentially contribute $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in annual value to business. That's welcome news to the jobs-starved economy. I say it's a natural progression of a truly ubiquitous …
Social media's role in small businessesAmsterdamPrinting.com
The Social Web 2.0 Business Success Program (Nine Courses)Virtual-Strategy Magazine

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McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy – New York Times (blog)
McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the EconomyNew York Times (blog)The short version...

McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy – New York Times (blog)
New York Times (blog)McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the EconomyNew York Times...

Gartner: Enterprise IT spending to hit $2.5 trillion next year
Worldwide enterprise IT spending will rise from $2.38 trillion this year to $2.46 trillion in 2011, a...

Nielsen Pairs With McKinsey for Social Media Consulting – ClickZ News
Daily Research News OnlineNielsen Pairs With McKinsey for Social Media ConsultingClickZ NewsNielsen has...

7 Things Your Social Media Consultant Should Tell You – Fast Company

Fast Company

7 Things Your Social Media Consultant Should Tell You
Fast Company
If social media consultants are doing their jobs, they should put themselves out of business. I speak as one of their kind. Before joining Fast Company last spring, I was the social media editor at the New York Daily News. So I'll say it even bolder …

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IT Consultant Resume Makeover: How to Land IT Management Jobs
There comes a time in many IT consultants' careers when they decide to exchange the trappings of...

Management in India: Three Things You Need to Know
Management Consultant Gunjan Bagla advises CIOs on how best to work with Indian executives and their...

7 dirty consultant tricks (and how to avoid them)
Scope change, empty suits, kickbacks -- beware IT consultants looking to turn your IT project into their...

What Your Cloud Consultant is Trying To Tell You
Consultants have been a mainstay of IT departments forever. But in the cloud the commercial language...

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