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Submission + - Tech Sector Slow to Hire (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by Iftekhar25 on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @02:03AM

Iftekhar25 writes: The New York Times has a frontpage article about soaring unemployment rates for IT in the US (6 percent) despite a tech sector that is thirsting for engineering talent. It reads: '[Many] high-tech companies large and small say they are struggling to find highly skilled engineering talent in the United States. "We are firing up our college recruiting program, enduring all manner of humiliation to try to fill these jobs," said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, an online brokerage agency for buying and selling homes that is based in Seattle and San Francisco. "I do think we're still chasing them, not the other way around."'

Submission + - Apple Platform Lock-Ins: A 3rd Party Dev's Opinion 1

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Iftekhar

on Sunday September 23, 2007 @09:28AM

Iftekhar writes: "Wil Shipley, of Delicious Monster fame, has written a very candid essay on what he perceives as Apple's growing trend toward platform lock-ins. He writes: 'Why is the iPhone locked to a single carrier, so I can't travel internationally with it? There's really only one viable reason: Apple wanted a share of the carrier's profits, which meant giving AT&T an exclusive deal. Which meant, we get screwed so Apple can make more money. It's that simple. [...] As Apple gets more and more of its revenue from non-Mac devices, they are also getting more and more of their revenue from devices that simply exclude third parties. Consumers suffer from this. We suffer from increased prices and decreased competition and innovation. We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is clearly not hurting for money.'"

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