Global chip growth will remain sluggish this year because of a continuing global economic uncertainty and slow inventory movement, according to an IHS report released Tuesday. Semiconductor industry revenue is expected to increase 3.3 percent to $323.2 billion from $312.8 billion in 2011, according to the report. That will exceed last year’s 1.3 percent gain. [...]
Ran across this article on Network World this morning. “Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL — along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world’s Bank of America and Fidelity Investments — succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an [...]
What do you get when you mix tech geeks with politics? You get an app. Earlier this month, techies Mike Hendrix and Taylor Cavanah were frustrated by presidential candidate New Gingrich’s showing in the Iowa Republican Primary. They decided to support him by pooling their tech knowledge and gaming experience. Hendrix heads the Precise Agency [...]
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. officially has adopted the Xerox name. Xerox Corp. chief executive Ursula Burns on Wednesday morning announced the name change in a conference call about the company’s fourth-quarter earnings. In early 2010, Xerox bought outsourcer Dallas-based ACS for $6.2 billion, the last of the three big local outsourcing companies (with Electronic Data [...]
Texas Instruments Inc. on Monday reported lower fourth-quarter revenue and profit from a year earlier but predicted an end to the industry downturn. The Dallas-based chipmaker also said it plans to close two older semiconductor factories in Houston and Hiji, Japan, which employ about 1,000 people combined. TI posted revenue of $3.42 billion, down 3 [...]
U.S. technology professionals saw their average pay increase more than 2 percent to $81,327 last year — the largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to a survey by Dice, a technology and engineering career site. Not only did pay increase after two straight years of nearly flat wages, but more companies rewarded their top [...]
