Sharon Gaudin

Technology salaries have recovered to the highest level since 2000, with government and defense salaries showing the largest gains, according to a new study. ”Salaries are up 2 percent, which is nothing to write home about,” says Scot Melland president and CEO of New York-based Dice, Inc., an online recruiting service for IT professionals. ”But […]

Racking up approximately $38.5 million in economic damages around the world, the virulent MyDoom worm easily took the top spot in January’s list of worst viruses. MyDoom-A, the original and far worse than its MyDoom-B follow-on, compromised an estimated 450,000 to 500,000 computers, installing backdoor trojans and launching a crippling distributed denial-of-service attack against The […]

Say good-bye to your desktop. By 2006, only 45 percent of corporate users are expected to consider their desktop to be their primary information device, according to a new report from Meta Group, Inc., an industry analyst firm based in Stamford, Conn. The laptop will be making a surge in the next few years. Meta […]

If 2003 was the worst year in the history of the computer industry for viruses and spam, hold onto your hat. This year, according to security experts, is setting up to see the malicious problems that appeared last year grow and fester into major security problems for 2004. The malicious marriage of spam and viruses. […]

In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts. And the stakes are only getting higher as we go forward. ”This has been the worst ever,” says Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at Reston, Va.-based iDefense […]

Thirteen NASA Web sites were attacked this morning by a Brazilian group protesting the war in Iraq, according to two separate organizations that monitor hacking. On the same day as President George Bush and 34,000 onlookers celebrated the achievements of the Wright brothers and 100 years of powered flight, the Brazilian group, calling itself DRWXR, […]

Despite shoppers’ mandate to make Web sites more usable, a new study finds that one in seven Web site home pages fail a simple link integrity test with one or more errors severe enough to drive users away. Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., which is the parent company of this news site, studied […]

IT managers are remaining cautious about spending as the year draws to a close, according to a new study. Despite some signs of economic recovery, a study by Gartner, Inc., a major industry analyst, shows that companies in the public and private sectors are still hesitant about IT spending. In November, executives at small, medium […]

Congress passing the Can Spam Act of 2003 is tantamount to ‘Christmas come early’ for spammers, according to industry watchers. The legislation, which President Bush has promised to sign, establishes the first national standards for commercial email and charges the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with enforcing the Act. But don’t expect less spam in your […]

Textile mills closed their doors, sending their jobs to foreign shores where labor is cheaper. Shoe manufactures did the same. Then manufacturers started handing out pink slips to their U.S. workers, sending the jobs, and the pay, offshore. Today, the IT industry is the next one to fall. Analysts call it ‘globalization’, but IT workers, […]

A couple of buddies get in their car on a Saturday morning. They’ve got steaming coffees and a laptop. As the passenger boots up the computer, the driver pulls out and banks a left onto a busy downtown Boston street. But in this scenario, it doesn’t have to be Boston. It could be Chicago, New […]

As ubiquitous as email seems to be in our world today, a new study shows that 45 percent of corporate workers do not have email access on the job. But the study also shows that 45 percent figure is going to start dropping next year and decrease dramatically by 2007, creating a huge market for […]