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Apple Looking to Secure iPhone OS Booting and Installation

Apple is looking to strengthen the security of its iPhone OS by hiring “a talented and inspired manager to lead a team [...] responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats.&rdq...

3 November 2009
09:14 GMT

Tipsters Reveal More Apple Retail-Store Changes Ahead of Holiday Season

People familiar with Apple’s plans have been talking to ifoAppleStore about the Mac maker’s latest retail initiatives, and how substantial changes to the retail employee job titles and duties will be made during the month to follow. The news comes on the heels of another ifo report revealing that staffers...

2 November 2009
10:05 GMT

Apple Posts New Web Pages Detailing Its Retail Concepts

ifoAppleStore, the source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple’s retail stores, has posted a piece signaling that the Mac maker has a new job page spotlighting retail philosophy. The pages, which promote job opportunities in a usual Apple manner, now include a focus on retail employee model...

6 August 2009
07:02 GMT

Internet Impact on Economy

Even in the context of the global economic downturn there are still areas that create jobs and that bring a breath of fresh air to the economy. We are of course talking about the Internet, a segment that creates millions of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity. All this could be considered strictly specu...

12 June 2009
03:20 GMT

Apple Recruits Security Expert Ivan Krstić

There will always be debates regarding whether or not Macs are 100% reliable, as far as security is concerned. However, Apple itself can tell you that isn't so. Otherwise, why would the company hire the former director of security architecture at OLPC (One Laptop per Child)? According to several reports, Ivan K...

14 May 2009
04:46 GMT

Job Listing Hints at 3G-Enabled Mac Tablet

The folks at Coputerworld have found quite a piece of evidence that Apple is seriously considering 3G hardware in a new portable Mac, perhaps the long-rumored tablet Apple fanatics are waiting for with their fingers crossed. The vital clues were spotted within a job posting over at Apple's Job Opportunities pag...

6 May 2009
09:52 GMT

Apple Creates New Job Position

Apple will soon begin hiring staff for Family Room Specialist – a job position recently created by the company. This specialist will need to be well versed in the ways of the iPod and iPhone, according to ifoAppleStore, but will also need to be a sociable person, in order to juggle with service and training ass...

2 March 2009
02:56 GMT

American Workers Anxious About Their Jobs in 2009

In the context of the economical crisis worldwide and Obama’s presidency, Yahoo! HotJobs made an online survey concerning the Americans’ job security in the near future. According to the search engine, 1 in 3 Americans is quite anxious about losing his/her job and the rest have high hopes in finding one t...

10 January 2009
06:01 GMT

Apple Plans to Grow Number of Embedded Devices

Apple's Job Opportunities section lists an opening for a Mac OS X SW Dev Manager, Network Authentication and Security. The team to be led is responsible for developing software for embedded devices (such as the iPhone), among others. According to the job summary, the company is already working on a “growin...

28 December 2008
13:41 GMT

Employers Don't Like World of Warcraft Players

World of Warcraft is a very popular game, with over 11 million active user accounts, dominating the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market. Its recent expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, became the best selling PC game of all time, managing to sell a whopping 2.8 million units in the first 24 h...

18 December 2008
15:01 GMT

Apple Adds New Job Position: 'Personal Shopping Specialist'

Apple has added a new job position at its retail stores, called “Personal Shopping Specialist,” according to ifoAppleStore. The source dealing exclusively with Apple store news also mentions that the new position emphasizes “connecting” and “relationships.” Previously, specialists ...

3 December 2008
10:28 GMT

Stephen Hawking Will Conduct Research in Canada

Starting last year, there have been rumors linking renowned physics scientist Stephen Hawking, 66, to a possible move abroad soon, especially considering his imminent retirement from his prominent position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (once held by Sir Isaac Newton) at Cambridge University next year. The spec...

28 November 2008
07:25 GMT

A Friend in Need Is a JobCompass

Cult of Mac reports that, given the high unemployment rate in the US, an application like JobCompass can come in handy, now more than ever. Of course, those who can afford an iPhone (as well as visiting the App Store to buy apps) are most likely already employed, or at least have it going for them one way or another....

28 November 2008
07:04 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Might Get You a Job

There's a lot of hype around the upcoming LittleBigPlanet title. For those of you who don't know, LBP is exclusively developed for the PlayStation 3 with Sony heavily promoting it, and it is a puzzle platformer game that allows players to create their own characters, levels and worlds. They will contro...

25 September 2008
03:29 GMT

Employees Keep Leaving Google

Google is said to be a paradise, especially due to its amazing Googlecampus and to its employees. Let's not forget the great conditions and the satisfaction you get when working for such a popular company. However, employees are continuously leaving Google although they all admit that working for the Mountain Vi...

5 May 2008
04:28 GMT

Women Sleep More Than Men

She sleeps more but she falls asleep with more difficulty. A new report released by the The Statistics Canada has found that men sleep an average of 8 hours and 7 minutes per night, compared to 8 hours and 18 minutes in the case of women. But while 25% of the men face trouble when becoming asleep, the number goes up ...

23 April 2008
14:11 GMT

Wanted: 600 New Googlers!

The Mountain View-based company Google will launch a new market attack in China, a country in which the search giant has encountered serious problems during its evolution. In the past, Baidu, which is often described as the Chinese Google, managed to provide a remarkable resistance to their industry evolution and, ev...

21 April 2008
04:11 GMT

Employees To Quit Their Jobs If Companies Block Facebook

I have to say just from the beginning that I'm not one of those Facebook-addicted fans and I have only created an account for testing purposes. Maybe I'm a little bit subjective, but I can't really understand people's addiction to Facebook, and to social networks in general. OK, Facebook is great,...

17 April 2008
16:31 GMT

Ex-Google Employee, "Google Has Problems, Too!"

Having a job at Google is somehow like living in paradise, all the people who have ever worked for the Mountain View-based company explain. And it's probably true because starting with cafeterias or bars and ending with pool tables or all kinds of games, they're all available for free for the persons workin...

15 April 2008
08:40 GMT

Apple Wants Handwriting Recognition Engineer

Did your teachers tell you that you've got calligraphic handwriting? Good, thumbs up from Softpedia, but that won't get you anywhere near the desk Apple has wiped the dust off for a Handwriting Recognition Engineer to sit at. What you need for this position with the Cupertino giant is a tad more complicated...

28 March 2008
09:40 GMT

Apple Store Opening within Liverpool One. Staff Needed

Another Apple store is opening and the Cupertino-based company is hiring staff. LDP Business reveals that the new store will be located somewhere within the Liverpool One development, with George Davies also opening a S'porter store in the vicinity. Land owner Grosvenor "has kept the news under wraps for months,...

18 March 2008
07:03 GMT

Hooray! Brit Got a Job!

Well, what do you know! All you people out there who were crying non stop, thinking how poor Brit Brit Spears is all alone in the world, crazy, friendless and jobless, you can stop now. I mean really, you can stop, dry your tears and smile, 'cause the sun is shining again on the formerly-out of control fallen po...

11 March 2008
10:11 GMT

Involuntary Job Loss Connected to Severe Health Decline

As if one problem is not enough, it seems to attract others as well. A new research shows that employees losing their jobs due to health issues can experience further increased depression and health deterioration than those losing their jobs due to non-health issues. It also appears that those finding quickly a new ...

21 January 2008
03:01 GMT

The Way Google Helps You Get a Job

Getting a job proves difficult to many people who, one way or another, find themselves unemployed. But the tough part is not "getting" a job, which is a fifty percent deal, you either have what it takes or you don't; what's tough is finding a job that suits you best. Here's the story of a schoolteacher...

4 January 2008
04:53 GMT

Attractive Men and Women Get the Best Jobs

Being attractive works beyond the sexual level. A new research, published in "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences", connected the attractiveness level of the interviewees with the results of a job interview, specifically the offers from high and low status job packages."When someone is viewed as attractive, th...

7 December 2007
03:56 GMT

Americans Love Working Remotely

I guess everybody likes to stay home and work remotely without having to go the office in order to do his regular activities. A recent study conducted by Citrix revealed that 23 percent of the Americans and 41 percent of the business owners already work remotely using the power of the Internet. Moreover, 62 percent o...

27 November 2007
10:00 GMT

Google Falling Behind Facebook

I'm at a point when I'm not sure what to believe next. What in the world is Facebook going after? The complete annihilation of Google little by little? Is this Microsoft's revenge for losing big with its online department when Google came to be what it is today?I mean it's OK to be competitive and...

22 November 2007
04:59 GMT

Beware, Monster Attack Confirmed!

It's been a while since Monster.com left out the news and remained focused on its businesses. But today, the famous employment website is again one of the main news topics as it got hacked once again after a few months of calm and quiet atmosphere. Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs wrote that only a sing...

21 November 2007
05:44 GMT

Yahoo in Partnership with New York Daily News

A long time ago, the Sunnyvale portal Yahoo started an impressive campaign of agreements which was supposed to connect newspapers with the company's Yahoo HotJobs technology. Today, one more newspaper joins the list of the partners, receiving "access to Yahoo!'s cutting-edge Web technologies for targeting d...

12 November 2007
15:06 GMT

Gays' Discrimination at the Workplace Decreases Productivity

Being gay in a straight society is a difficult task, as rejection comes from all sides. A new research made on over 500 American gay, lesbian and bisexual employees discovered that "fears about disclosing a gay identity at work had an overwhelmingly negative relationship with their career and workplace experiences an...

5 November 2007
08:56 GMT

Prepare For a Job Interview with InterviewUp

The job interviews are those moments in your life when you have to prove all you're capable of in order to convince the interviewers that you're the one for the job. The sad thing is that you don't know all the questions asked by the interviewers and you can't even guess the perfect answers for t...

22 October 2007
15:31 GMT

Microsoft Takes Care of Its Herd

Believe it or not, around each cubicle over at the Redmond campus there's a free hug, according to Roy the Job Opportunity Cowboy. This is because - again as Rob explains - Microsoft takes good care of its herd. And if you thought the Redmond company did not have a sense of humor, then you have been sadly mistak...

16 October 2007
06:50 GMT

Beware of Jobs You Find on the Internet!

You need to be weary of jobs you can find on the web. And when I say this I'm referring to jobs you can get by e-mail. There are two types of job offers you can get in your inbox - the ones from legitimate websites to which you have subscribed (those are OK) and the spammy ones (which you should be careful about...

1 October 2007
03:04 GMT

Job Opening for Evil Hacker. Anyone Interested?

Some people waste their IT knowledge on cyber-crime. They have great minds, but their intentions are wrong; fortunately, employers can see through this. Sometimes, when hackers are really good, even though they cause a lot of damage, some firms decide it would be a smart thing to hire them in the IT department. This ...

26 September 2007
03:07 GMT

10 Tips to Improve Your Work Efficiency

Yeah... another day in the salt mines...and that dickhead boss of yours accusing you of killing time all day... and Monday... Who the heck invented that day, after all!? This is a lost day...Your friends start telling you stories of places they've been to, where they traveled in the weekend or how they did parti...

25 September 2007
07:10 GMT

Employees Sacked for Spending Too Much Time on the Web

Many of the large companies from all around the world prefer to restrict the access of their employees to numerous websites in order to avoid affecting the productivity and to keep them focused on their job. However, three employees from the Neath Port Talbot council in Wales were sacked after they spent too much tim...

24 September 2007
06:27 GMT

The Hidden Questions from a Google Interview

Many of you dream to work for Google. The Mountain View company is described as a paradise from the outside while the people inside confirm it. Besides the amazing work conditions such as great food and 20 percent of the work time for individual projects, the Googlers are working in a nice and friendly atmosphere tha...

10 September 2007
04:12 GMT

Do You Play Games at Work?

The market research Information Solutions Group conducted a survey concerning the employees who play games at work, revealing that no less than 24 percent of the respondents admitted they played video games during the working day. The research included 2,842 employees and was conducted by PopCap.com, a website which ...

6 September 2007
06:20 GMT

Famous Hacker Attacks The Googleplex

The search giant Google hired Michal Zalewski, a famous hacker who's well-known for multiple major security holes discovered in the applications. In 2007, the 26-year-old hacker was more focused on the web-browsers, finding several flaws in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. According to ZDNet, "in February,...

14 August 2007
04:56 GMT

Google For Students = El Dorado for Treasure Hunters

The Mountain View company is not only the owner of the best search engine on the Internet but also the most attractive place to work for most of the students from every corner of the world. If you don't believe me, you should because this statement was revealed by a new research conducted by the Swedish firm Uni...

16 July 2007
16:26 GMT

Google - The Company with No Employees

12,328. This is Google's magic number. Or at least it was. If you don't get it, this is the number of the Google employees reported by Wikipedia on March 31, 2007. Today, the number is probably 12,326 as two engineers who struggled to make the Mountain View company become the most important firm on the Inte...

16 July 2007
02:46 GMT

P. Diddy Turns to YouTube for A New Secretary

The social websites are not just some webpages looking to attract and build a community of users anymore, because they are very often used with a different goal than the main one. After Justin Timberlake found a new start on the popular online video sharing service, P. Diddy, the famous rap star, is now visiting the ...

13 July 2007
14:31 GMT

Now's Your Chance! Google Pays a Lot of Money for New Talents!

The Mountain View company announced the availability of a new job opening as the search giant wants to hire several full-time SketchUp trainers to teach new users interested in the 3D modeling tool. The new jobs are available for multiple US locations including Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Den...

25 June 2007
02:00 GMT

The Life at the Googleplex Published on YouTube

Several clips meant to show life at Googleplex were published on the online video sharing service YouTube showing actual Google employees talking about their jobs. Although there's no official statement concerning the goal of the clips, it looks like a new attempt of campaign meant to improve the image of the Mo...

8 June 2007
08:21 GMT

Google's HR Stinks!

A recent story concerning the Google Human Resources department is affecting the Mountain View company's image. Jeff Barr presented a funny story about the Google recruiting system, sustaining that he was contacted by some search giant's recruiters although he refused their offer in the past. The interestin...

24 May 2007
12:46 GMT

Google Gets Involved in Linux Development

Robert Love, an ex-chief architect of the Linux Desktop department at Novell decided to resign his position and accept Google's offer to join the Open Source Program. It seems that Robert Love will join the Google Code team, a special service powered by the search giant that struggles to offer important content ...

9 May 2007
03:52 GMT

Job Seekers Are Turning to YouTube

The job seekers are now turning to YouTube and create video presentations of their jobs to find matching employers. The best example was provided by the Chicago Tribune, a publication that presented Fallon Rechnitz, a job seeker who posted her clip on YouTube. According to the website, Rechnitz recorded a 30-second ...

8 May 2007
16:21 GMT

Google to Acquire Job Search Engine

Google might acquire Simply Hired, a job search engine that allows users and companies post job openings for numerous locations in the entire world. As Google doesn't currently own a powerful job search engine, Simply Hired is a perfect addition for the search giant's products as it is one of the leaders in...

7 May 2007
06:10 GMT

Which Are the Most Satisfactory Jobs?

Are you going to work as if you were going to a concentration camp?Or are you indulging with another shiny happy day?That depends a lot on your job...A 2006 national survey made in the US revealed that firefighters, the clergy and others that practice jobs that involve helping or serving people are more satisfied wit...

18 April 2007
04:45 GMT

What Should You Wear for a Google Job Interview?

Earlier this day, I wrote an article about a potential Google job quoting the newest member of the Reader team who sustained the life at the Googleplex is really a dream. Let's suppose that Google called you and invited you to an interview to talk about a potential job for the search giant. I believe this telep...

23 March 2007
05:24 GMT


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