Comment on For $55, What Kind of LTE Experience Does MetroPCS Deliver? by tom

i would disagree with the statement from metroPCS about what their customers are looking for. i am quite familiar with the retail environment in both metroPCS and cricket retail stores. high end smartphones(usually flashed(converted) from verizon or sprint) are not only in very high demand(far beyond the supply) plus prepaid customers are easily willing to pay in the $400 - $700 range for used phones. that is something very different from the major carriers. the reality is that metro's leapfroging of 3G means that for now at least customers are unable to use fast data on the phones they can easily obtain(new or used phones flashed from spring or verizon) and are instead limited to either metro's limited 4G selection or using WIFI only for data.

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Readers Share Ways to Get Experience in IT

We've gotten a lot of feedback to out post How to Overcome the Catch-22 of Finding a Job with No Experience.

That's where MJ Shoer, the president of Jenaly Technology Group, suggested breaking into IT by finding helpdesk position "geared to people with no or a very few years of basic experience." 

I'd take that one step further and suggest a lateral transition at your current job. The thing about getting hired cold is the employer doesn't know if you can do the job, or even if you are worth hiring.  In a lateral transition, you've at least answered the second question.

But I digress. On to the comments:

One user suggested that volunteering at a local non-profit is a good way to gain experience. It doesn't put food on the table, but it will provide you with the opportunity to solve real world problems, and help build up a resume.

Another wrote:

Here is a strategy I am beginning to implement. There are many open source technologies that are in demand. My focus in on Web Development/Design. So, these technologies include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, SQL, MySQL, etc. As I teach myself these skills, I update a website I created to demonstrate knowledge and initiative. This leads to side projects that demonstrate these skills, which ultimately leads to a job utilizing these skills. That's the theory, anyway.

Here's another idea: Set up a virtual lab. It may not be good for the resume, but it will go a long way toward giving you experience. You can read about deploying an antivirus package via ManagSoft all you want, but you won't come to understand the obstacles until you actually do it. Today, you can build a lab on your PC with free software.  When I first started out I used four-year-old physical PCs to build a domain controller, an SQL server, a print/ storage server and a workstation. Today, those could all be hosted on a laptop. And with VMWare, you can throw in a firewall DHCP box as well. Most software comes with a 30-day free trial. When it expires, re-image and start over.

There are a lot of ways to get experience to complement your certifications, but all require determination, since you're competing with many techs who are also looking for work.

-- Dino Londis

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How to Overcome the Catch-22 of Finding a Job with No Experience

I got an e-mail the other day about the tech job market. I'll let it speak for itself:

I am unemployed, and the state of Nevada (15% unemployment!!!) sent me to school. I studied and passed my A+ certification, but have given up on ever passing the Network + test. You see, to the person WITHOUT actual job experience, there is no way to pass 25% of questions on the CompTIA test(s).

FURTHER MORE, there has not yet been so much as one job listing that welcomes people who have just passed their tests and want to break into the IT field. It sounds like a classic case of 'catch 22' to me. Any positive suggestions???

TomTom and HTC Unite to Deliver Best of Class Location and Navigation Experience on the Phone

TomTom and HTC Unite to Deliver Best of Class Location and Navigation Experience on the Phone
AMSTERDAM & TAOYUAN, Taiwan-(BUSINESS WIRE)-TomTom, the world's leading provider of location and navigation solutions, and HTC Corporation, a global d

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Like to Design? You May Excel in a Career in User Experience Design

Have you ever been frustrated by the way something works - like a website, an appliance, or software app - and thought to yourself: "Geez, I could do a much better job designing this?" Maybe you should be a user experience designer. Everything we touch and interact with gives us some kind of a user experience, and getting that experience right is a make-or-break proposition that requires a very particular kind of expertise.

"To me, user experience design involves making a conscious decision during the design process to think about how the user of your product is going to perceive the experience," says Gary Smith, a 24-year veteran experience design at companies including Autodesk and Intergraph.

Thinking about and implementing a design using a broad spectrum of tools and techniques is what user experience design, or UX, is all about. It'is not the same as user interface design.

Whitney Hess, a noted UX expert and prolific blogger on the subject writes:

"It's not uncommon to confuse 'user experience' with 'user interface' - after all it's a big part of what users interact with while experiencing digital products and services. But the UI is just one piece of the puzzle."

Hess also stresses that UX isn't just one milestone in the product development process, but a part of every step. "We need to keep listening and iterating. It doesn't have to be a rigid process, but it does need to exist."

Says Smith: "You can easily design an interface to a software product, or even a physical product, without regard to how the user will experience it." UX is at a higher and more holistic level that involves information architecture, interaction design, visual design and prototype engineering.

UX Expert Skills

The skills a UX expert needs to master vary. "Today, companies posting UX positions are often looking for an individuals who will put a front end on a website, and usually want him to do both the design and coding using tools such as JavaScript, CSS, Flash, Silverlight, Ajax or Cocoa, Smith says. "But again, don't confuse this sort of work with the work associated with the creation of a standalone software app," he emphasizes. It's about the overall experience and not the click-by-click functionality.

Wallace Jackson, a UX Designer for immersive 3D virtual worlds and CEO of Mind Taffy Design says, "open source is where it's going." He cites many of the same tools as Smith, but adds XML, Python, Lua, JavaFX and JavaTV to the list.

And it's not just on the desktop. The inherent constraints of small mobile devices have opened up a new set of UX issues. "A good user experience is required for this new generation of mobile apps - just as it's required for any app," says Smith. "In theory, there should be no difference in the design process." What will differ is how UX experts apply their design philosophies given the particular needs and constraints of mobile devices.

eyond coding, UX can also encompass psychology and the burgeoning science of Human-Computer Interaction. "When I started doing my design work, a specific position with 'user experience' in the title didn't exist at many companies," Smith recalls. "Microsoft's apps were typically used as the model since most apps were being targeted at Windows PCs. With a number of Human-Computer Interaction courses now offered by universities, many of today's UX professionals have degrees in cognitive psychology or some other ethnographic background. But ultimately, creating a good user experience is all about understanding your users."

Given the multiple disciplines UX encompasses and the unique way of thinking it requires, it's obviously not for everyone. But if you have the ability to listen and understand a customer's problem, the skill to identify and synthesize patterns among them, the creativity to propose effective and efficient solutions, as well as an artistic flair, you might find success in this fascinating and challenging field. 

-- Chandler Harris 

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TomTom and HTC unite to deliver best of class location and navigation experience on the phone

TomTom, the world's leading provider of location and navigation solutions, and HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today announced they are combining strengths to deliver superb navigation and location solutions on HTC smartphones. HT

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 User Experience – Webcast

In the video below, Rich Dickinson discusses how to personalize the user experience using Forms on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, either for an individual or more generally for roles, so that they have easy access to information most relevant to them.