Darwin's private papers launched on the Internet
More than 20,000 items and 90,000 images belonging to Charles Darwin, author of On The Origin Of Species and the theory of evolution, were posted to the Web for the first time. Read more...

Companies get more savvy with internships to find next-gen IT workers

From IT intern to IT pro

DHS extends time foreign students can stay in U.S.

Got wireless (IT skills)?

Failure to patch flaw exposes data on 60,000 at Antioch

Novell customers have hard time finding qualified workers, training

Workforce diversity puzzle not easy for IT execs to piece together

Gates: U.S. puts tech jobs at risk by capping foreign workers

Computer science graduating class of 2007 smallest this decade

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What brain drain?
Despite clear signals that the retirement of baby boomers could be disruptive to corporate IT, many companies seem perfectly content to watch them walk out the door. As a result, IT shops that are attempting to get ahead of the retirement wave are finding themselves pretty much on their own.

Pro or Parasite?
If the message being sent to our young people is that companies are going to be reluctant to hire them when they graduate, they'll steer clear of technology and the pool of available homegrown talent is going to dry up.

Security Team
Your information security squad is much bigger than you realize, suggests Frank Hayes.

Career advice: The usefulness of certifications and master's degrees
Computerworld Premier 100 IT leader Ram Murthy discusses certifications, education, leadership and more.

Career Watch
Advice on dealing with difficult co-workers; and new developments among certifications.

The Real Reality
Offering some insight into what we might be overlooking in dealing with the realities that confront us -- not denying what's real -- is what advances the discussion of IT issues.

Retraining Dilemma
Too many companies are losing valuable institutional knowledge by opting against retraining; instead, they replace their workers with people who possess needed new skills.

IT's top 5 training mistakes
New and upgraded software and gear are only as good as the training behind it. Here are five pitfalls to avoid as you work to bring your training game up to par.

See the Future
It's a snap to predict the future for the next wave of IT talent, brags Frank Hayes. He explains how.

Web 2.0: The skills behind the buzzword
Columnist Katherine Spencer Lee examines the question: What does Web 2.0 mean for your IT career?

Forget market share — which desktop operating system is truly the best? Four experts defend their OS of choice in an opinionated free-for-all. Check out these examples of how the Web is evolving to present information in new ways to help you get organized, boost productivity or just have some fun. This "AirPort Extreme on steroids" lets Leopard users perform quick and easy wireless backups. Users and vendors live in very different worlds when it comes to disk reliability and failure rates. We cut through the confusion.

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

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Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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Independent Report by Forrester Research, Courtesy of MKS: "Selecting the Right Requirements Management Tool — Or Maybe None Whatsoever" Many of today's requirements management tool purchases are misguided: Application development and program management professionals often buy requirements management tools for the wrong reasons and select tools that are out of line with their needs. In this independent report, Forrester advises app dev organizations to be realistic about the problems that a requirements management tool can address, the level of tooling that they require, and their ability to build and maintain tool integrations. Download this white paper now  See more Whitepapers

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