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Low demand seen for high-tech jobs

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The latest version of its Occupational Outlook Handbook, which estimates how many jobs will open due to industry growth and retirements each year between 2002 and 2012, ranks the replacement needs for each job title in IT as "low" or "very low."

The specifics: 45,000 computer and information-systems managers will be needed each year during the period, according to the handbook.

That's 19,000 database administrators, 4,000 computer and information scientists and 45,000 software engineers.

PalmSource

Chairman to quit, stay with palmOne

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Software maker PalmSource said that Eric Benhamou has tendered his resignation as chairman, effective after the company's October annual meeting.

The move cut further corporate ties with PalmSource's former sister company, palmOne, which makes the handheld devices that run PalmSource's software. PalmSource said Benhamou was expected to remain chairman of palmOne.

In October 2003, Palm divided into Sunnyvale, Calif.-based PalmSource and Milpitas, Calif.-based palmOne.

Gateway

Jobs in Midwest to be outsourced
 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gateway will outsource several technical and manufacturing units by Sept. 30, laying off hundreds of workers in Kansas City and North Sioux City, S.D., the company confirmed yesterday.

The job cuts at the personal-computer and consumer-electronics company are part of a stream of layoffs announced earlier this year. The company would not specify how many positions were affected in the two states, though spokesman Bob Sherbin said it was between 100 and 500.

The company plans to trim its employee ranks to about 2,000 by year's end, down from 24,600 at the end of 2000.

Digital TV

China to subsidize urban service rollout

China will provide low-interest loans to cable companies to convert 100 million urban households to digital television by 2008, a government official said today.

The goal is to have all 380 million households in China on digital technology by 2015, providing sharp pictures and access to interactive services such as home shopping. About 280,000 households nationwide are now digital.

China's rollout of digital television presents overseas investors a new avenue into a restricted market.

Compiled from The Associated Press and Bloomberg News