Judge rejects student visa injunction sought by H-1B opponents
A federal judge has rejected an effort by H-1B visa opponents to roll back a Bush administration decision that extends student visas from one year to 29 months. Read more...

Google, Microsoft woo higher ed with free online services

Streamlining IT operations, possibly at the expense of free beer

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Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009

Barclays to cut 1,800 U.K. IT staffers in offshoring move

Outsourcing Deal, Layoffs Lead to End of Tax Breaks

No servers, no stories at Financial Times

Tax break fuels anger over outsourcing-related layoffs in Fla.

AT&T rolls out digital content delivery system

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What are you doing for me, and why don't I know it?
Without a formal communication plan, you could find your IT function being outsourced from under you.

How to Get Value From Outsiders
Paul Glen has discovered the secret to getting value from outside service providers. It's all about what you call them.

Quality Over Quantity
This drug firm's approach to application support uses more service-level metrics and fewer vendors.

Opinion: Companies can't afford not to have vendor management offices
Their combination of hard- and soft-dollar savings should make them an easy sell, even in tough economic times.

How to evaluate vendor performance
McDonald's supplier of the year award offers tips for getting the most from your technology vendors.

HP+EDS & You
The job security of EDS employees isn't the only thing that will get more precarious after the company merges with HP, Frank Hayes argues.

China rising: If you know Mandarin and management, you're in
Go east, young men and women, go east: American expats with a facility for languages and a sense of adventure are reporting that opportunities abound in China.

Career advice: Is programming headed for extinction in the U.S.?
Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Vidya Byanna answers questions on career longevity, office politics, mentoring and more.

The Duck Project
Bart Perkins says when morale-sapping, underperforming 'ducks' are hiding behind HR, flush them out.

Is your outsourcer an IT sweatshop?
Advocates of socially conscious outsourcing say that companies will increasingly develop standards that go beyond pure business objectives to address ethical concerns such as labor policies to green initiatives. The results, they say will be good PR, lower costs and better outcomes.

Before the iPhone will ever rival the BlackBerry in the workplace, IT admins need to know how to best activate and deploy it to their workers. Part 1 of a three-part series focuses on activation and configuration. How do you make a phone with the smallest possible size, but the largest possible screen? Blogger Mike Elgan knows. Got a basement full of old components? Why not use them to build yourself a new PC? We show you how to do it. Narcissistic employees — yes, IT has its fair share — can wreak havoc in the office and put your own job at risk.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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Learn-Fast Guide: It's All About You (Source: Computerworld) Is your career in sync with the current megatrends: business alignment, globalization, the consumerization of IT, web 2.0 and beyond? In this guide, you'll get advice about how to make yourself more valuable, how to make the global talent pool work for you and how to make sure you "get found" when you put yourself out there. Download this executive briefing

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