James Maguire

Using IT job sites to their best advantage requires more than trolling through them for attractive openings. Sure, you can continuously scan the big IT job mega-portals, like CareerBuilder IT Jobs, Monster.com IT Jobs and Yahoo Tech Jobs. Another popular option is Indeed’s Computer/Internet Jobs, an aggregator of listings from other sites. But to get […]

Yes, it’s almost shocking: a widely publicized report from Computer Economics, a research firm that tracks IT trends, claims that IT salaries will actually rise in 2009. Really, a salary increase? Are you kidding me? For IT staffers everywhere, their jobs are like life during wartime. Layoffs mean the body count is falling precipitously. Sysadmins […]

Using IT job sites to their best advantage requires more than trolling through them for attractive openings. Sure, you can continuously scan the big IT job mega-portals, like CareerBuilder IT Jobs, Monster.com IT Jobs and Yahoo Tech Jobs. Another popular option is Indeed’s Computer/Internet Jobs, an aggregator of listings from other sites. But to get […]

Update: Cool iPhone Apps Also see a September ’08 update: Top Ten Free iPhone Apps Plus: 81 Tasty iPhone Apps Summer 2009: iPhone Apps: the Top 46 Oddest Okay, you’ve bought your iPhone, showed it to all your friends, and learned to love it. The thing’s cool. But now you want more. You want your […]

Cool iPhone apps – for free – are certainly one of the best things on the Web. The following list contains the very best among the free iPhone apps: games, Facebook, search, music, helpful tools, and more. So what are you waiting for? Start downloading (note: all links open in iTunes for easy, free download.) […]

It’s time to vote for your favorite tech products. Make your opinion known! The voting page is here. Datamation has a long tradition of recognizing and honoring the best IT product vendors through its Product of the Year Awards. For the winners, these annual awards are a mark of distinction and symbol of achievement in […]

Look at the figures for IT spending on cloud computing and you’ll have to squint to see the skinny percentage. Worldwide dollars directed toward the cloud accounted for a scant four percent of global IT spending in 2008, according to research firm IDC. But if you gauge levels of vendor excitement about this new model […]

Also see: The 2009 IT Salary Guide Surprising no one, IT salaries in 2009 are undergoing a contraction – so far modest – as the economy grapples with a deep downturn. Based on the 2009 IT Salary Survey by Janco Associates, the mean IT salary dipped from $79,005 in January 2008 to $77,367 in January […]

It’s time to start nominating products for the Datamation 2009 Product of the Year Awards. The nomination form is here. The nomination process ends on January 23. Datamation has a long tradition of recognizing and honoring the best IT product vendors through its Product of the Year Awards. For the winners, these annual awards are […]

The term “endpoint virtualization” is an umbrella term that refers to any technology that abstracts the end user experience from the physical hardware that delivers that experience. For instance, software as a service allows staff to use applications that reside across the country (or the globe) from where they sit. A popular use of endpoint […]