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InfoVision is a global IT Services and Solutions company with primary focus on Strategic Resources, Enterprise Applications and Technology Solutions. Since 1995, InfoVision has delivered cost-effective quality products and valued service exceeding customer expectations with Mobile Application Development, Business Analytics, Visualization and Collaboration, Wireless and IP Communications, and IT Staffing to ensure the best talent is hired, trained and retained.

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8bitfuture

$25 smartphone to be unveiled this week

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Harsh Career Tips: Confidence is Key, Availability is Not a Skill

“As I have seen career changers and new graduates grapple with the career journey some are a little too naïve. Too many are waiting for something to happen instead of making something happen.”

Avoid the most common mistakes that can derail your accounting career.

#career #IT staffing firms IT staffing

thetechgets

Nokia Lumia 520 accounts for a third of all Windows Phone smartphones, highlights Nokia’s high-end problem

Nokia’s most popular Windows Phone smartphone, the Lumia 520, now accounts for almost a third of…

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Articles after articles have been written about the obvious imbalance among the amount women and men working in the IT industry. Women represent 10% of venture capitalists, while they’re leaving the industry two times the rate of men. The observation may be obvious but it’s a tough one to address, but now, IT staffing firms are seeing a positive trend in the amount of women in the tech industry.

Events such as women-only conferences, workshops, and social outreach groups such as Women 2.0, have helped boost the morale about being a woman in a male-dominated industry. Since these events and groups have been created, IT staffing firms have seen a vast improvement in the motivation of women to get into the tech industry, remain in it and make a name for themselves.

Learn more: http://www.infovision.com/uncategorized/how-to-succeed-as-a-woman-in-the-male-dominated-tech-industry/

#women in tech #women #tech #tech industry #succeed #business #advice #blog #infovision #job #career #career help #career advice #male domination #itech #technology

itsokaytobesmart

Grace Hopper

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper would have been 107 today, and is being honored with a great Google Doodle. It’s quite literally impossible for us to imagine, as we sit here reading about her on the internet, but people used to use things like paper and pencils and chalk and slide rules to solve (and often not solve) complicated problems. Grace Hopper quite simply helped usher in the modern age, her impact, I think, is no less than the steam engine or the cotton gin.

Some awesome stuff she did: Grace Hopper developed first compiler, allowing computer calculations to move beyond simple arithmetic and into more complex problems. She also developed first standardized computer language, COBOL, which laid the groundwork for all the languages we use today.

One day she found a dead moth disrupting one of the electronic relays in the Mark 1 computer, and upon removing it (and fixing the computer), the term “debugging" was born. Here’s her daily log from that day, with the offending moth taped to the page:

Beyond that, she was a charming scientific communicator, and she possessed a marvelous ability to make people, and mind you this was in a time when almost no one owned their own computer, truly appreciate both the importance and the complexity of computing technology.

She famously carried around a bundle of nanoseconds in her purse for illustrative purposes. Here she is charming the socks off of David Letterman, and giving him a nanosecond of his very own (don’t miss the picosecond joke, either) :