Patrick Thibodeau

Articles by Patrick Thibodeau

After pay cuts, IT works seek payback in new jobs

Harris said that 61% of IT workers earning between $35,000 and $50,000 a year are "likely" to start looking for a new job over the next 12 months. How to cope with increased employee expectations

QA jobs morph as agile development gains ground

Testing is no longer about script writing. How the recession has changed the demand for quality assurance professionals

HP says IT pros need own social network

48Upper comes with its own "manifesto," which says this about IT pros: "We have lived with the stereotype of being introverted, pessimistic loners for too long."rn

HP says 10,000 cows can power 1,000 servers

Researchers at Hewlett Packard Co. Labs researcher says there's interest in a cow power project

U.S. pols want to make it easier for grad students to work in America

No legislation has been drafted yet, but some Democrats want to U.S. government to offer permanent residency in the U.S. to any graduate student in science, technology, engineering or math who has a job offer.

Final tally: U.S. IT sector lost 250,000 jobs last year

The most resilient tech segment last year was software services, which employs 1.9 million people. It had a decline of 1.2 per cent or fewer than 21,000 people when compared to 2008

U.S. IT employment dips, H-1B visa demand sluggish

Critics of the H-1B visa see it primarily as a tool to outsource IT jobs overseas and to displace U.S. workers with younger and lower paid visa workers

Cloud computing frustrations surface

Lack of standards and industry agreements are issues getting more attention during talk of cloud computing as the focus now shifts to what the cloud does not offer

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