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  • HP Updates Pavilion Line of Notebooks

    Small businesses or small office/home office (SOHO) workers have a refreshed option for mobile business with HP’s updated line of Pavilion notebooks, which builds on HP’s MUSE (materials, usability, sensory appeal and experience) design philosophy. At the forefront of the redesigned lineup, the HP Pavilion dv6 and dv7 incorporates HP CoolSense Technology, which automatically adjusts…

  • Help Wanted: IT Talent Agencies See Growth in Demand for Contractors

    Although the economy isn’t quite the disaster it was two years ago, many businesses still aren’t ready to staff up in the IT department. Instead they are relying on IT talent agencies to fill the gap with contract workers for both short- and long-term projects.  And that’s not all. Vendors and solution providers looking to…

  • IT Job Sector Gets Stronger

    There was a net gain of 11,800 IT-related jobs in January—the eighth straight month of positive job growth in IT labor segments in federal employment data—according to employment numbers released Friday by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Five bellwether IT job segments in BLS data had a net gain of 74,200 jobs…

  • Paging Doctor Google: Online Health Searches Highly Popular

    Searching for online health information was the third most popular Web activity for Internet users behind e-mail and using a search engine, according to a new study by the nonprofit research firm Pew Internet & American Life Project. Eight in 10 Internet users researched health information online, Pew reported in its Health Topics survey, conducted…

  • Eric Schmidt Hands Reigns Back to Page

    Eric Schmidt Hands Reigns Back to Page When the VCs really started pouring money into Google, the strings attached were that Sergey Brin and Larry Page step aside for a more mature CEO to lead corporate development. Since 2001, Eric Schmidt helped grow Google into a powerhouse. A decade later, he is giving the leadership…

  • Cisco Quarter Pressured by HP Competition, Other Rivals

    NEW YORK, Feb 4 (Reuters) – No longer Wall Street’s top over-achiever, network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) must persuade wary investors it can fight off rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) and soothe concerns about public sector spending cuts. Although most investors forecast modest year-over-year revenue growth, some said they were approaching Cisco’s…

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