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Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities; Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet

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Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
By Denise Dubie
Some signs of economic recovery are emerging and a variety of organizations in some of the biggest U.S. cities are seeing demand for IT professionals, according to high-tech career industry watchers. Here we list cities currently in need of IT professionals (according to Dice); salary information for the areas (according to PayScale); and a few reasons why IT pros might want to search for work there. View slideshow

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05/13/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Microsoft: Corporate Vista testers should switch to Win 7 RC
  2. Inside a data leak audit
  3. PoE without the PoE switch
  4. Implications of proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009, Part 1
  5. Windows Mobile 6.5: me-too all over the place
  6. Purported BlackBerry 'Onyx' photos surface
  7. Data center 10G whets switching companies' appetites
  8. Cloud security demands greater scrutiny, Forrester says
  9. 4chan users trigger DDoS attack ... on 4chan
  10. Bill would turn Internet flamers into felons


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