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Recruiting Skilled IT Workers a Challenge for Many CIOs, Survey Shows

DETROIT - Finding experienced IT professionals tops the list of staffing concerns for technology executives, a new survey shows. Nearly one in four (24 percent) chief information officers (CIOs) polled said finding skilled information technology (IT) professionals is their greatest staffing challenge. Providing employees with adequate skills training ranked a close second, cited by 23

By |2008-02-14T00:00:00-05:00February 14th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

New Net Neutrality Bill Nixes ISP Favoritism

WASHINGTON DC - Comcast, AT&T, and other network operators would be expected to refrain from "unreasonable discriminatory favoritism" of content on their networks under a revised Net neutrality proposal introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. But this time around, the new bill sponsored by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of a House Internet

By |2008-02-14T00:00:00-05:00February 14th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|

US Senate Approves Government Spying On US Citizens

WASHINGTON DC - The Senate Wednesday approved a measure to expand domestic spy powers and grant legal protections to companies that aided the government's domestic surveillance ? a priority for the Bush Administration. The 68-29 vote sets up a standoff between the House of Representatives and the Senate, with both chambers facing the expiration of

By |2008-02-14T00:00:00-05:00February 14th, 2008|Archive, Cyber Defense|

BL Government Affairs – Analysis Of Gov. Granholm’s Proposed Budget

LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm presented the broad brush strokes of her proposed budget during her State of the State address in January. Last week, she provided the fine print for the Michigan legislature. BL Government Affairs? Brendan Ringlever takes a close look at her legislative priorities in this special edition of News Maker Interview.

By |2008-02-12T00:00:00-05:00February 12th, 2008|Archive, Podcasts (TechTown)|

BlackBerry Service Down For 50 Percent Of North America

WATERLOO, Ontario ? If you own a BlackBerry, you already know this story. Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, experienced a significant outage of its wireless email service on Monday, its second nationwide disruption in the last 12 months. The company notified its customers of the problem Monday afternoon, saying that the outage was

By |2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00February 11th, 2008|Archive, Events/Announcements|