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Top Skills Include Mobile Development, Open Source

Not too long ago, Elance, an online job board for contractors and service providers, released a report that noted its online talent pool earned more than $20 million in the first quarter of 2010, with information technology as one of the top-performing categories.

According to the report, here are some of today's most sought-after IT skills that you should be seriously thinking about acquiring:

• Mobile Development: This category saw a 98 percent increase in the number of job posted by employers, and Elance attributed the increase to the emergence of devices such as Apple's iPad and the next generation of iPhone, as well as the popularity of Google's Android mobile operating system.
  
  
• Open Source: Open source technologies make up 20 percent of Elance's IT Top 50 Skills list. Popular skills include working with content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, as well as open source database systems such as MySQL, and mobile, e-commerce and web server technologies.
  
  
• Cloud Computing: Job prospects for cloud computing are on the increase, with popular cloud computing languages such as PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails and Python making it onto the top 50 IT skills list.
  
  
• Social Media: These include application development skills for popular social networking sites such as Facebook.

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Top Skills Include Mobile Development, Open Source originally appeared on About.com Tech Careers on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 at 06:04:49.

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Google appears to be trying to boost its customer support for Nexus One customers, posting replies to many more queries on its online forum.

Google has come under fire since the launch of the Nexus One after hundreds of messages were posted with complaints or questions about the phone. Many customers said that after calling T-Mobile they were referred to HTC, the phone's maker, or the reverse. Google does not have a customer-service phone line, and customers sending e-mails were being told to wait one or two days for a reply.

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Google Begins Replying to More Nexus One Complaints originally appeared on About.com Computing Center on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 08:45:33.

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ISC(2) has released its first-ever certification specific to a country, rather than a technology.

The company, an independent security certification vendor,  announced the Japan Government Information Security Professional (JGISP) credential focused on the special requirements of doing security for that nation. ISC(2) worked with the Japan Network Security Association (JNSA) to develop the JGISP.

W. Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2, had this to say in the press release as to why the certification was developed:

“After thorough research of the Japanese market, we believed a credential that focuses on the requirements specific to professionals in government security fields would be a more effective means to meet the particular needs for a highly qualified, ethical information security workforce in Japan."

At least two years of experience in at least two of four security-related domains are required before taking the test. The credential is good for three years, and requires 20 continuing education credits per year to maintain.

The JGISP has a Japanese-language home page on the ISC(2) site.

Based on this, I wonder if a similar U.S. government security credential is coming. There are certainly tons of security requirements already on the books, and more are surely coming. If it makes sense for Japan, why not the U.S., which is more complex?

Security Cert Goes Japanese originally appeared on About.com Tech Certification on Saturday, September 19th, 2009 at 07:50:11.

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