Through analysis of some recent employment studies and interviews with IT professionals and recruiters, Baseline Magazine determined the hottest IT positions today. Here is the list from Baseline Magazine.

Our ongoing story about the security of White House email took a strange turn on Friday, proving some of the national security concerns I’ve been discussing to be true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate way. What makes this topic so troubling, of course, is the serious national security breach that may have occurred. But there’s more to the story, including issues of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, and even how racial stereotyping may have contributed to spinning this story in a way that may be obscuring the true magnitude of the possible damage to our national security.

Read this DominoPower article.

Considering how hard most solution providers will tell you it is to find IT talent, they would be crazy to launch recruiting side businesses.

Well, call them crazy, but a small group of solution providers in recent years has done just that. Though playing headhunter wasn’t exactly in their original business plans, these solution providers have tackled recruitment as another service for their customers. The providers are featured in a story titled "For Hire" in this month’s eWEEK Strategic Provider.

The debate over whether there are sizeable IT labor shortages in the United States is challenging and complex. There has been plenty of discussion on H-1B visas, a purported lack of computer science graduates and a cry from the human resources industry that many jobs in technology simply cannot get filled.

Nearly one in four CIOs polled by Robert Half International in a recent survey said finding skilled IT professionals is their greatest staffing challenge. It’s gone so far that major company heads like Bill Gates of Microsoft have urged the U.S. government to increase the number of H1-B visas to help fill gaps.

What makes IT professionals happy? According to a survey released April 23 by Robert Half Technology, an IT recruiting firm, the answer is really not that complicated: money.

CIOs identified increased compensation as the most effective way to retain IT staff, cited by 27 percent of respondents. Yet not far behind–at 21 percent–CIOs also knew they were really winning employees’ favor with professional development or training.

Jargon shows up in all professions, but in few is it more apparent, or more divisive, than in the world of technology. Picture this. You’re in the middle of a presentation to a business team about some technology it would behoove the company to invest in and this comes out of your mouth:

"Just last week, we loaded 15 BGUs in the OTB and got an output of 1,300 cycles, which shows our testing program is right on target."

You might have missed it, but half the room was day dreaming and the other half were checking email on their BlackBerrys. What they were not doing: considering whether they should budget for this technology, because you had lost their attention. Can an over-reliance on tech jargon be bad for your career? Some experts say yes.

Looks like our own David Gewirtz was right in his concerns. Here’s a breaking news report on the subject:

ZATZ Publishing today announces that national security concerns published by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? have been proven true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate example.

Today, Fox News reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.

That’s the equivalent in strategic U.S. government information of about 28,000 printed pages of data, or seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. And that’s per BlackBerry. Given today’s incident, that’s seven times seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels.

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Comcast is throttling more traffic than it has previously admitted, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told a U.S. Senate panel April 22. Martin also told lawmakers it appears Comcast broadband customers are not free to access all content on the Internet, including the ability to fully use peer-to-peer networks.

Martin’s comments come after two FCC hearings on charges that the nation’s largest cable provider deliberately throttles P2P applications such as BitTorrent during peak network hours, a practice that Comcast admits to. Comcast says its policy not only falls within the FCC’s reasonable network management exception to the FCC’s network neutrality rules, but it is also "imperceptible to the customer."

Martin refuted Comcast’s claims, telling the Senate Commerce Committee, "It does not appear that this technique [throttling] was used only to occasionally delay traffic at particular nodes suffering from network congestion at that time." According to Martin, the testimony so far presented to the FCC indicates Comcast’s efforts at managing P2P traffic "is typically deployed over a wider geographic or system area and would therefore have impacted nodes within a system simultaneously."

Comcast’s technology, Martin added, "blocks the uploads of at least a large portion of subscribers in that part of the network, regardless of the actual levels of congestion at that particular time."

Martin also said he had no fix on when Comcast will actually stop using its current approach, although Comcast said it plans to move to a "content-agnostic" platform available for up to 20 percent of Comcast’s customers by the end of the year. One of the primary network neutrality complaints against Comcast is that it singles out one program over another.

A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service.

Christopher Tarnovsky–who said his first payment was $20,000 in cash hidden in electronic devices mailed from Canada–testified in a corporate-spying lawsuit brought against News Corp’s NDS Group by DISH Network Corp. The trial could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage awards.

Due to better support for Java, Microsoft’s Tellme subsidiary is offering its voice search for Blackberry devices before it goes live on Windows Mobile handsets. Tellme keeps track of where you are through your phone’s GPS radio so your search results are local to where you are. Device owners can tap a button and speak their search query; in return, Tellme will offer local results using the Microsoft Live Search engine.