IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

An anonymous reader writes "Scam awareness website www.scam-detectives.co.uk has published a two part interview with convicted Nigerian 419 scammer "John".

irving47 writes 'With the economy the way it is, it's a little iffy to even think about switching careers completely, but lately, I've gotten more and more fed up with trying to keep up with the techn

Sampa, a secure, weblog-style site where families can post events, videos, pictures and stories, says it’s shutting down in August because the 4-year-old startup ran out of money.

jaroslav writes "The University of Wisconsin is attempting to update a payroll system they have had in place since 1975, but spent $28.4 million in a 2004 attempt with no results, and now is experienc

Stephen Birch writes "Following closely behind the mid-November 2.06 release of VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems has released version 2.1.

Over the past few years we’ve seen the rise of cute ideas, ones we love using on a daily basis, but are hard to turn into real, long-term businesses.

globeadue writes "My company just tagged me for full time App Dey — I've essentially never coded for money, but the last 3 years of support desk gives me the business sense to know the environme

As a business journalist, I have to confess that I love it when money starts changing hands.

On surface, Facebook Connect seems to be yet-another-Web-ID system.

First the money flowed to social sites like Facebook that showed the world how to get users to interact.

Earlier this week, I got a tip from one of my reliable sources that Riya, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, was looking to either sell or license its core technology and instead focus solely on Like.

A couple of startups are trying to become the PayPals of the business world, offering their enterprise clients a way to measure and invoice without resorting to expensive custom-built billings softwar

Web businesses -- From Google to Facebook to Hulu to MySpace, and everything in between — are seeing unprecedented growth, and the new web infrastructure buildout presents a huge opportunity, for bo

After the debacle of yesterday's on-stage interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at South By Southwest, I decided to take myself out of the process as much as possible by offering up a Q&A.

The web-to-mobile calling efforts are starting to get interesting.