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Look forward to higher wages in Singapore
News IT professionals in the island state are in a "very strong position" to negotiate for better pay, according to recruitment firm.
Tags: Benefits, Compensation, Executive recruiting, IT Professional, Singapore, Salary, recession, financial, job, bank
China's increased hiring bucks regional trend
News Unlike China's optimism, hiring expectations have fallen in three Asian economies--but salaries for new hires remain the same, survey finds.
Tags: Career, Recruiting, Benefits, Hong Kong, Hire, Singapore, Japan, Environment, Salary, Human Resources
Attract foreign talent with 'split pay'
News Offer salaries in currencies of expatriate's home and host countries to combat inflation and currency fluctuation, advises HR firm.
Tags: Benefits, Recruiting, Trends, Employee, Compensation, Salary, Human Resources, financial, network, bank
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News The New Year's honors list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic Web.
Tags: Web sites, Government, Benefits, Semantic Web, Hypermedia, Information And Communication Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer, Wendy Hall
Microsoft backtracks on severance issue
News Redmond says laid-off workers who were accidentally paid too much will be able to keep the excess.
Tags: Benefits, Layoffs, Microsoft Corp., software company, Worker, software, Human Resources, CNET Networks Inc., accounting, CNET News
Microsoft gets 10,000th patent
News After five years of pushing for more patents, Microsoft has finally broken into five digits when it comes to the number of U.S. patents issued.
Tags: Patents, Best strategies, Benefits, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Patent, Online Game, Computer, Worker, Microsoft Surface
Sprint's CEO awarded US$2.6M bonus
News Even as Sprint continues to lose money and customers, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse rakes in a hefty compensation package that includes a US$2.6 billion bonus for 2008.
Tags: Benefits, Stock options and grants, Sprint Communications, Cell Phone, Compensation, Hesse, 401(k) plan, Stock options and grants, equity, CEO
UK female IT workers face pay gap of one-fifth
News An equal-pay survey has found salary discrepancies are still an issue for female techies in the United Kingdom, although there are signs the situation may be improving.
Tags: Human resources, Benefits, Survey, information technology worker, London, Silicon.com, program manager, U.K., audit, industry
Highest IT salaries: San Francisco, London
News Figures from PayScale suggest, however, that pay levels may decline this year. Also in decline: bonuses.
Tags: Benefits, HR policies and procedures, help desk, IT Salary, PayScale, Valley, Salary, Worker, London, software
Steve Jobs taking medical leave of absence
News Apple CEO says in letter he will step down as he recuperates from a medical condition disclosed earlier this month; COO Tim Cook will stand in.
Tags: Components, Benefits, Handhelds, Notebooks and tablets, Apple Inc., Conference, Absence, Apple Macintosh, mobile-phone industry, e-mail
Hackborn won't seek re-election to HP board
News Richard Hackborn has been the lead independent director since the firing of Patricia Dunn in the wake of the company's spying scandal.
Tags: Business plans, Business structures, Benefits, Hewlett-Packard Co., pretexting, chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, e-mail, journalist, CNET Networks Inc.
Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
News Organizations should be wary of vendor lock-in, according to European Network and Information Security Agency.
Tags: Cloud computing, Network security, Expert, Enisa, Security, Risk Management, network, IT Security, European Union, Information Security
Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge
News Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one.
Tags: Operating systems, Open Source, Google Inc., Computer, Phone, Operating System, Smart Phone, Android, Sergey Brin, device manufacturer
'Best effort' insufficient for cloud
News Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
Tags: Service level management, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, NTT Corp., SingTel, network, Uptime, Asia-Pacific, SLA, Service Management
S'pore to get new-generation membership card
News Passion ez-link Card conforms with new standard for micropayments and will enable payment for transit services, retail purchases and motoring charges.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, micropayment, Singapore, Card, payment, CEO, managing director, Benefit, director
