Careers & Education

3Com Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Claflin will retire as soon as the networking technology vendor finds a replacement for him, the Marlborough, Massachusetts, company said.

Church groups are starting to use the latest video technology to connect with their communities of faith over the Internet. Bob Adams, president of Christian Growth Solutions, a Toronto-based system integrator, says he is helping churches use the technology to reach their flocks

Microsoft Windows administration and Cisco network management have emerged as two of the hottest technology skills predicted for 2006. The latest IT employment and salary research by Robert Half Technology and Foote Partners LLC seeks to pin the most sought-after skills for the coming year

Microsoft Windows administration and Cisco network management have emerged as two of the hottest technology skills predicted for 2006. The latest IT employment and salary research by Robert Half Technology and Foote Partners LLC seeks to pin the most sought-after skills for this year

The PhilNITS IT Professional Exam certification is now recognized in seven Asian nations, including the Philippines. This was agreed upon by the countries during the IT Engineers

Robb Chapman, an IT specialist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, discovered how complicated the choice of a collaboration tool can be when he became involved in the CDC's effort to purchase software that would let researchers work more effectively with universities and state health agencies. The options proved so numerous that the agency hired an outside consultant to sort through all the candidates -- an effort that took six months.

Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have set aside their differences long enough to jointly help create an Internet services lab along with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has started recruiting some of the 4,500 employees the company aims to hire over the next two years in India, a move that will double its head count in the country, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.