IT

Tech layoffs came to just under 47,000 last year, according to employment-services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Better still, during the next 10 years, the sector is forecast to have one of the fastest paces of job creation of any industry.

The outlook for IT spending this year is looking up. Research firm Gartner said Thursday it expects revenue to grow 5.1% from 2010, an increase from a previous forecast of 3.5% growth.

Hewlett-Packard has won a contract worth up to $2.5 billion to supply computer equipment -- including hardware and software -- and information-technology services to NASA. HP's gain is Lockheed Martin's loss: Lockheed had been NASA's IT supplier until now.

The U.S. is hardly alone in losing work to cheaper skilled labor in foreign countries. Australia, Canada and Israel, among others, have dropped off Gartner's list of the top 30 countries for outsourcing. Here's where IT and business-processing jobs are heading.

Oracle, one of the world's biggest software companies, on Thursday posted fiscal second-quarter earnings that grew 28% year over year. It's the latest sign that companies are spending more on technology.

Do you wear seatbelts? Avoid raw eggs? Get a flu shot? In other words, do you behave in ways aimed at protecting your safety and your overall health? Now answer this: Do you have a password on your mobile phone? Do you tell your social networking sites where you are? If so, you're not as...

Cisco is expanding its foray into the smart grid with plans to acquire Arch Rock. The San Francisco-based startup is developing wireless-networking equipment for the electrical grid.

If the July unemployment numbers made you want to stick your head in the oven, take some heart. Some business sectors are actually hiring right now. Your challenge is to figure out how to get yourself trained for a job in one of them. Tig Gilliam, the CEO of Adecco Group North America -- the...

Jeff Foster saw the writing on the wall a year ago when he was laid off as a project manager for a construction company in North Carolina. Foster was earning $85,000 a year, and as the construction industry was fading, his company saw fewer jobs. The small company, which Foster had joined only six...

Higher productivity is good for both companies and workers, but where do improvements in productivity come from? The second entry in a three-part series exploring efficiency in the workplace.