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This article provides information for the worldwide computer industry in the following areas: Internet, intranet, applications, consulting services, employment, vertical markets, M&A, etc.

Flexibility is an advantage firms can achieve by controlling a major land area to set up campus locations. Sun Microsystems holds a 540,000 square foot campus in Burlington, Mass., and an additional 660,000 square feet is slated to be set up in the upcoming year. Sun will have 4,500 employees at the campus in Burlington when it is finished, and the firm will hold 1.2-1.4 mil square feet apiece at Burlington and 2 other campuses when all are totally completed.

The competition to recruit good people in the new media industry is scaling new heights. Eva Pascoe, chief executive of Zoom, suggests that the difficulty in sourcing quality new media […]

Jim Sweigart is in an enviable position. Two months into a C++ certification program at George Mason University in northern Virginia, the 28-year-old former Naval petty officer has interviewed with [...]

The rate of employment for men in all ethnic minority groups, aged between 16-64 years, was 65% compared to the rate for white men of 80.3% in 1998. Employment for women also showed a difference between ethnic groups, with the employment rate for white women, aged 16-59 years, at 70% compared to 49% of women in all ethnic groups. The number of information technology workers rose by 21% during 1992-1998. Some 43% of male managers worked more than 48 hours per week and 31% of professional woman worked over 48 hours weekly. About 8% of all workers had temporary contracts.

Not since the middle 1980s has there been so much talk about "shortages" of technical personnel. From every corner of the industry, executives decry the difficulties of recruiting engineers, information-technology […]

Security consultant Al Decker left a good job as a partner at Coopers & Lybrand last December to join a fast-growing competitor. Such moves are hardly news in the IT […]

A historical study of the computer industry reveals that computer manufacturers add workers to their payrolls then shed them when the products they manufacture undergo technological change, increased demand, and [...]

The employment statistics for women in the computer industry indicate how the information superhighway will affect women's employment prospects. Less than 40% of employees in the computer industry are women, and few are in top jobs. Prospects for women in high technology are discussed.

The IBM/DBM Data Center is helping laid-off employees of IBM's Poughkeepsie, Kingston, and East Hill, NY, facilities find new jobs. The employment agency Drake Beam Morin (DBM) and IBM jointly offer job search counseling, use of a nationwide database of job listings and resume preparation service for the 2,700 employees involuntarily separated on Mar 29, 1993. It is difficult for these workers to find new jobs in the Hudson valley area due to lack of other high technology industries and severity of the recession there. However, high skills and training of former IBM engineers should help them obtain new jobs.

Semiconductor companies lead the way With the arrival of spring, maybe something really is in the air: Companies that have hunkered down for almost a year now in Texas and [...]

Several career opportunities exist in the computer industry. They run the gamut from computer operators to information systems managers. There is no definite path towards any of the computer professions. Companies generally hire people who have specific qualifications and work experience, due to increased specialization within the industry. College degrees are not mandatory. More importantly, the computer professional should keep abreast, and preferably, ahead of current technology trends.

OR and WA endure some layoffs, but hiring overall stays steady The Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon are weathering the economic downturn better than most US high-tech regions. [...]

A year ago, the Bay State called its economic troubles a slump. Today, the label has caught up with reality, and the situation is being called a full-blown recession--possibly the [...]

An unsettled outlook for New England electronics In January 1990, Ted Eaton fell victim to the recession. Laid off from his position as New England sales director for Prime Computer […]

Recession dampens hiring in Northwest Oregon and Washington companies are cautious this winter in the face of economic and international turmoil. Only a few of the region's companies that are [...]

The Up and Coming High-Tech Woman By the year 2000, 61% of all women of working age will have entered the U.S. work force. The picture for them in the […]

Connie Gougler can pinpoint exactly when she began to get discouraged about finding another job in Oregon's high-tech sector. 'It was the day I started to apply at restaurants,' the [...]

In today's work force, it's hip to be a geek. With technical help in short supply, businesses have to be creative - whether that means paying higher salaries and installing [...]

The way to hang on to valuable IT pros is to keep them challenged Phil Wheeler couldn't be more enthusiastic about job hopping after only a few months at rental […]

MORE IT jobs were advertised in the last quarter of 1996 than in any other fourth quarter this decade. And average salaries on offer were up by more than the […]

Rapidly growing studios are finding few qualified animators and artists among hundreds of star-struck applicants Five years ago, few films had any CG effects. Today, it's hard to find a […]

INTEL PUSHES HIRING Intel Corp. is using every means it has, including the Internet and its own videoconferencing technology, to recruit more than 2,000 engineering, software and business graduates this […]

Honeywell Technology Solutions, the R&D arm of Honeywell, plans to establish a centre at Bangalore with an investment of Rs402 crore. It has received the approval for the project from [...]