Study: IT skills pay drops slightly overall in Q1
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Reports: Yahoo plans more job cuts

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2008 Salary Survey: IT pay takes tiny leaps
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Naughty workers, spam pollutes, Skype spin off
A whole lot of employees keep "inappropriate" photos, videos and browser cache links on their work laptops, a survey found. (Honestly, how difficult is it to at least clean out the cache?) As if that's not enough, the spam that clogs our computers is spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to McAfee. And eBay plans to spin off Skype after figuring out what many observers said a while ago, which is that they just do not seem to have much in common.

Weighing the benefits of onshore outsourcing
The discussion about outsourcing continues to be an on-again, off-again affair -- that is, onshore and offshore.

Reports: Yahoo plans more job cuts
Yahoo may announce a new round of layoffs next week, the third since early 2008 and the first staff-trimming under new CEO Carol Bartz, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are reporting.

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Six Ways to Ruin Your Resume
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How to Get Fired
With downsizings and cutbacks all around, it's more essential than ever to ensure that negative personality traits don't derail your career. Here are five cautionary tales of CIOs whose tragic flaws cost them their jobs.

What Satyam's Ownership Change Means to Customers
As the fallout from the Satyam scandal continues, many outsourcing clients of the beleaguered Indian outsourcer--as well as customers of other offshore outsourcers--are examining their options.

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
Some relationships just aren't meant to be -- as IBM and Sun Micro found out when what looked like a rock-solid deal disintegrated overnight. But they weren't the only ones enduring a bittersweet parting this week. Will Wright and Electronic Arts, Fox News and Roger Friedman, Google and the newspaper industry, iTunes fans and the 99 cent download all went their separate ways. Can you separate the real news answers from the near misses? Try your luck on our quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Ready?

Halts in H-1B Visa Hiring?
A recent article in the Washington Post alleges that some American companies may be reducing their H-1B visa hiring in response to a growing backlash against the program that allows them to hire foreign professionals in the U.S. The article states that "Analysts say it is part of a wave of mounting anger in the United States over work visas, especially at a time when more than half a million Americans are being laid off every month."

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