Gun-toting drug-pushing spammer canned under new US federal law.

Agency opens its doors to freelance IT contractors from March 2006.

Innovators told US is filing patents more than twice the rate of Europe.

You and your knowledge are a product for sale, and opening up new markets can represent additional income and improved long-term job security. Given that those that can, teach – could training provide such an opportunity?

Contractors reveal what business processes mean to the way they perform their jobs.

Wage expectations highest since dot com peak.

Could the immovable object of Microsoft's desktop operating system dominance be under threat from the apparently irresistible force of Google's expansion?

The latest Jobstats report of IT contract rates by skill type and location shows a 10% increase in jobs advertised since May 2003.

Subscription-based "on-demand" service seen as direct competitor to offerings from Siebel and Salesforce.com - but analysts advise caution for early adopters.