Interested in your value to the IT job market? As hiring in the sector begins to rebound, it’s a good idea to know how you rank in the tech food chain. Top of the list of workers that IT departments now have the toughest time finding:

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Tags: Dice.com, employment, hiring, IT skills

IT may hold the keys to the kingdom in the business environment these days, but the folks who are most likely to pick the lock are in another department altogether:

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Tags: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, company, employee, report, steal

If there’s one group of people who know how to make a mint off of public relations, it’s the British Royal Family. So the fact that this group of ribbon cutting and plaque unveiling experts has set up a Flickr account should be a message to any organization that sells itself: Grab control of your online visual images.

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Tags: British monarch, Flickr, iTunes, podcasts, Prince William, social networking, Twitter, YouTube

The latest software upgrade to Amazon’s Kindle reader adds some powerful social networking capability to its stripped down, early entry into the e-book reader market: Twitter and Facebook updates.

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Tags: Amazon, Facebook Twitter, Kindle, Kindle Reader, Software, tweets, update

The titanic shift in publishing that’s pushed traditional books, magazines and newspapers off their pedestal in favor of electronic copy hit a crescendo this week when Amazon announced that, for the first time, e-books outsold their hardcover competition.

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Tags: Amazon, ebooks, hardover, iPad, Kindle, sales

The financial juggernaut that is Apple continues unabated by minor blips like the iPhone 4 antennae and fears that the iPad’s phenomenal popularity might eat away at Mac sales.

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Tags: Apple, earnings, iPad, iphone, ipod, macs, third quater

Facebook’s expected to announce its 500 millionth user soon, but the news is likely to be overshadowed by a recent survey that found its current users are terribly dissatisfied with the site.

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Tags: ACSI, American Customer Satisfaction Index, consumers, E-Business Report, Facebook, popularity

Got an opinion? Want to broadcast it on the Attleboro (Massachusetts) Sun Chronicle website? Be prepared to pay for the privilege and sign your name to your ideas.

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Tags: Attleboro, comments, Massachusetts, Oreste P. D'Arconte, posting, Sun Chronicle, website

Apple’s got a couple of strategies for contending with its iPhone antennae debacle: First, give phone owners a free case that’ll almost fix the problem. Second, stage a lock-in for Apple antennae engineers until the problem’s actually fixed.

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Tags: antennae, Apple, bumper, case, cots, engineers, iphone, sleepover, slumber party

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