A survey from a government agency paints a positive picture of the prospects of IT and telecoms professionals over the next five years
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As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, our panel of security experts nominate the prime security trends of 2011.
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Planning ahead for 2011, perhaps even making the odd resolution or two? Here are some tips and predictions from the experts to help you on your way.
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Augmented reality is a way of fusing the real and the virtual world by overlaying digital data on to real-world analogue views. Find out what skills you need to break into this cutting-edge field.
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As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from small to mid-size companies up to suite offerings for global organisations.
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PHP is a scripting language that was designed for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It’s free software and is currently used on over 20 million domains for both front-end and back-end web development.
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Since its launch in 2002, the .NET framework has been adopted by most companies who rely on Microsoft to provide their IT systems.
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Java technology is popular with virtually every business sector, making Java and J2EE among the most popular skills within the IT industry.
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Software development is a dynamic working environment where the ‘family of C’ programming skills (C, C++ and C#) are widely sought after.
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At the cutting edge of IT, the banking and finance sector has some of the best jobs of all the sectors.
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Shared services are in the news again. Nine out of ten local authorities in England are looking to share front line and back office functions within the next two years.
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The 2011 small business survey revealed that many businesses just don’t ‘get’ cloud computing. We asked our panel to field the common technical and commercial queries.
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If you want to understand where virtualisation ends and the cloud begins, read on.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the open-source revolution, from Linux to Apache.
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Cyber crime has become a well known security risk in recent years, but hackers have been breaching IT security since the 1970s. Don't believe us? Read the cyber crime timeline to find out more.
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More generous tax credits for product research and the government's creation of Enterprise Zones stand to encourage IT research and development activity. We spoke to some IT pros working at the bleeding edge to find out what a career in R&D is like from the inside.
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A projected large increase in IT spending in 2011 brings glad tidings to graduates seeking jobs in the sector.
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The IT department often gets the blame when things don't go as planned. So it's important to build strong relationships with the rest of the company.
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There's more to being a successful open-source contractor than just being a superb coder. Here are 11 ways to be a superb open-source citizen.
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