Category: Jobs in Technology

How to Lose Your Tech Job

How to Lose Your Tech Job

  That’s all right, United States! We weren’t using our economy anyway. We’ll just shut down the global marketplace and go fishing or something until your lot gets it sorted out. But in the meantime, the IT jobs sector has been awakening each morning in wide-eyed horror. We get up, tiptoe into the office, and [...]

Internet Filtering – How It Works, How to Work Around It

Internet Filtering – How It Works, How to Work Around It

  With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is [...]

What Does Barrack Obama’s USA Win Mean For Technology?

What Does Barrack Obama’s USA Win Mean For Technology?

This image summed it up the best. The whole world was watching as the United States threw out their old regime and mandated Barack Obama into office as their 44th president. Never before have we seen so many countries interested in the outcome of one election, and so jubilant at that outcome. We just can’t [...]

Tech Support’s Eight Least-Wanted Callers

Tech Support’s Eight Least-Wanted Callers

  There’s nothing wrong with calling technical support for whatever product or device you have in front of you. You paid money for it, you expect it to work, you want it fixed. Even the geekiest of gadget geeks dial them up every now and then. But we’re posting this to remind consumers that there’s [...]

If Tech Companies Could Receive Darwin Awards: part 2

If Tech Companies Could Receive Darwin Awards: part 2

To continue our look at technology companies which, if they were people, could have won a Darwin Award, here’s the other five. These aren’t companies that just plain lost the game fair and square, even if they gave it their best shot. These are companies which should have been winners, but did a really great [...]