The IT job market is slowing down, use of contingency workers is picking up, and Congress has an unfinished fight ahead on the H-1B visa. These factors and others are making the IT hiring trends to expect in 2014.
The decision by the Texas Department of Transportation last June to outsource IT operations fits squarely into an IT job pattern that dominated last year.
The explanation that New Jersey closed access lanes on the heavily traveled George Washington Bridge for a 'traffic study' is a head scratcher for traffic engineers.
About 2.5 million Chromebooks were sold globally in 2013, or about one per cent of the entire PC market, according to IDC. But most of those sales were driven by consumers, not by enterprise users.
Moore's Law created a stable era for technology, and now that era is nearing its end. But it may be a blessing to say goodbye to a rule that's driven the semiconductor industry since the 1960s.
The NSA is spending some $80 million in basic research on quantum computing, money that may ultimately help commercialize quantum computing for the private sector.
With the attention given to Twitter's IPO, one might assume that the tech industry is dependent on its success. It isn't. Not even close.
Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five years. A few may still be running Unix 10 years from now, but nonetheless, Gartner believes the operating system is on a path to insignificance.
Cloud adopters face serious risk in the next two years because of the strong possibility that their provider will be acquired or forced out of business, according to Gartner.
After a decent start earlier this year, IT hiring is slowing down.
China overtook Japan in IT spending this year to become the world's second largest IT market, according to market research firm IDC.
Security researches are gradually raising warnings that the Internet of Things will increase, by multitudes, the number of things that can be hacked and attacked. The Hitchcockian plotlines are endless.
Technology users -- retailers, in particular -- are being snared in patent infringement lawsuits, prompting Congress to eye reforms that could change how lawsuits are filed and who pays if they're frivolous.
The big problem facing supercomputing is that the firms that could benefit most from the technology aren't using it. It is a dilemma.
Lowe's Companies has upgraded its main shopping app to help customers find products once they are inside a store.