We’ve Gone Crazy Over Smartphone As Speedy Gonzales over Cheese

A new report from  Gartner shows the Worldwide mobile phone sales has totaled 417 million units during the third quarter, up 35% from last year. Similar story for the smartphones – the sales grew 96% to 81 million and accounted for nearly 20% of all mobile sales during the quarter.

There should be no surprise here. Given the smartphones new design since the inception of iPhone and Android, this was expected. We are literally doing many of our computing with the smartphones these days.

Smartphone OS providers have entered a period of accelerated platform evolution, stimulated by more regular product releases, new platform entrants and new device types. Read more of this post

hhgregg Opens 500 new Jobs for 10 New Stores in the Washington D.C. Area


The positions will be for Sales, Warehouse and Customer Service.

With 10 new stores slated to open in the Washington D.C. area this fall the appliance and electronics company,  hhgregg is seeking enthusiastic, highly motivated D.C. area residents to fill approximately 500 open positions at its new locations. A job fair for each new store will be held on July 19th — 21st from 9:00am — 7:00pm. Venue information can be found below.

hhgregg is now accepting online applications for commissioned sales associates, warehouse staff and customer service merchandiser positions. The Company plans to hire approximately 50 employees for each of the following store locations: Read more of this post

IT Roles to Shift Dramatically Over Next Five Years


by Elias Shams
Three out of every four information technology roles will either migrate to business services, evolve into business roles or be externalized by 2015, according to a new study by the Arlington-based Corporate Executive Board.

Based on a survey of several hundred IT and business executives, the CIOs soon will face the choice of expanding to lead a business group or seeing their position shrink to managing technology delivery. Read more of this post

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