Networking can offer tremendous opportunities for job hunters -- if done properly. Meeting people, letting them see your face, and hearing what they have to say can often be a tremendous advantage when looking for a career. Jobtrak Corp. offers an online job-listing service for students and alumni of top universities. Ken Ramberg, the company's co-founder, provides the following tips for successful networking.
The Object Management Group (OMG) is expected to announced today the ratification of a new standard for meta data called the Common Warehouse MetaModel (CWM).
MicroStrategy Inc. on Tuesday announced the availability of Transactor, its platform for enabling direct business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions.
When Human Genome Project (HGP) statisticians were looking for a way to mine billions of bases on the human genetic code and find out which ones cause certain diseases, they turned to SAS Institute Inc. and its Enterprise Miner for help.
Faced with sluggish adoption of its latest server-side Java technologies and dogged by chronic client-side problems, Sun Microsystems Inc. used last week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco to jump-start the technology's progress across its entire ambitious range.
A job at a pre-IPO startup company used to be the hottest ticket in the high-tech industry. Now qualified job candidates are passing on dot-com opportunities in favor of more established technology companies that offer a stable work environment, regular hours, and a path to professional development.
Acknowledging Sybase Inc.'s deeper foray into the mobile and wireless market, company officials confirmed that new Sybase subsidiaries iAnywhere Solutions and Casio Computer Co. Ltd. on Thursday signed an agreement to put iAnywhere wireless products and services on Casio mobile devices.
Oracle Corp. last week took another step in its mission to push all functionality onto the database by releasing its internet File System (iFS) for the Oracle8i database.
Oracle Corp. has taken another step in its mission to push anything and everything onto the Internet by announcing the release of its iFS (Internet File System) for the Oracle8i database.
Attempting to address the demands of the streaming media market, Intel Corp. announced on Thursday the creation of an Internet-services business for streaming-media providers.
Several industry heavyweights took a step closer in their quest to create an XML-based standard for linking applications and services over the Internet Monday night, as the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) acknowledged the submission of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Version 1.1 for its review.
Hoping to help software developers solve what it terms the "e-software paradox," Rational Software Corp. last week launched a new version of its K2 product suite family, which includes 12 products for Web development. The paradox to which the company refers is that the Internet requires ever-higher software standards out of a shorter development cycle.
When John Wall became CTO of online health-insurance service provider HealthAxis.com, the company was right at the jumping-off point in its transition to the Internet. He was in a position where flexibility -- both in the company's services and in his role as CTO -- were going to be crucial to the success of that movement.
Attempting to solve the problem of how to cache fast-changing Web content while ensuring that only the most up-to-date data is held in cache, Persistence Software Inc. yesterday announced a new solution dubbed Dynamai.
Hoping to help software developers solve the "e-software paradox," Rational Software Corp. on Monday launched its new K2 product suite, which includes 12 new products for Web development, company officials said.