IT adds 25,000-plus jobs so far in 2010

Posted on March 8, 2010

IT employment grew by 0.37 percent, or 14,000 jobs, in February, one of the strongest month-to-month gains since 2008, according to the TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group that analyzes U.S. Labor Department unemployment data. In January, IT employment increased by 12,900 jobs, TechServe Alliance reported.

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Cast Iron rolls out OmniConnect data integration kit

Posted on March 8, 2010

Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios.

Cast Iron OmniConnect, to be available Tuesday, represents an evolution of the vendor’s existing IaaS (integration as a service) and on-premises offerings. It is available in on-demand form, as an on-premises or hosted virtual appliance, or as a hardware appliance.

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Second Life’s virtual money can become real-life cash

Posted on March 7, 2010

Dana Moore sells rain. He sells a lot of it, for about a buck per reusable storm.


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Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)

Posted on March 7, 2010

Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the unlocked HTC HD2, Dell Mini 10, HP Mini 210 HD, and TomTom Ease.

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Billionaire Bubble: Ten players in the local tech scene look back, a decade later, at the frenzied days of the Internet boom and its fateful bust

Posted on March 6, 2010

Ten players from the local technology scene look back at the Internet boom and bust.


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At Play: Kickstarter is a Web site for the starving artist

Posted on March 6, 2010

Baltimore-based director Matt Porterfield was overjoyed to find out that his latest film was accepted by the Berlin Film Festival. But there was one not-so-trivial problem: He didn’t have any money to finish the editing and sound work.


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What’s inside Intel’s photonics lab (photos)

Posted on March 6, 2010

Inside Intel’s Photonics Lab in Santa Clara, Calif., researchers are seeking ways to enhance data transfer using silicon germanium optical transfer.

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Orbital Sciences to buy General Dynamics’ satellite unit

Posted on March 6, 2010

Dulles-based Orbital Sciences said Thursday that it will pay $55 million in cash to buy a satellite subsidiary of Falls Church-based General Dynamics.


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Intuit could use some quick(en) fixes for its new Mac program

Posted on March 6, 2010

About a week ago, Intuit announced that it had fulfilled one of its customers’ oldest requests: It had shipped a new Mac version of its Quicken personal-finance program that didn’t look and run like a 1998-vintage relic.


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Robot avatar MeBot gives you wriggling bug body

Posted on March 6, 2010

Developed by an MIT researcher, MeBot is a small robot avatar for telepresence applications that can gesture to help convey the user’s emotional state.

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