Careers & Education

The Extreme Blue program is IBM's incubator for combining great talent and technology to fuel innovation. The company has been running this intensive 15-week internship program since 2004 in Canada. This year, 24 students from various universities were selected out of pool of about 500 applicants to participate in the program.

Sybase has announced a partnership with supply chain technology company Intermec to provide Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) infrastructure products.

Faced with an escalating shortage of skilled IT workers, Canadian companies are turning to educational institutions to help develop new generations of IT practitioners. But trends in university computer science enrolments indicate this wellspring of future IT professionals might be going dry.

There is a major trend plaguing teams today

Chris Messina, founder of the BarCamp movement, sees it as a boon to the person pursuing a dream but could be cut off from cash and the needed network.

The Barcamp - a grassroots-driven, wiki-aided, free-for-all, ad hoc networking gabfest is fast becoming popular around the globe. All you need is some space, a WiFi network, a wiki

"Finders, keepers," the old saw goes

A Victorian ICT skills working group in Australia is hosting ICT careers sessions for Year 12 students across the state's regional and metropolitan areas.