Software is becoming a key differentiator for mobile devices and networks, and companies throughout the wireless ecosystem are competing for software talent. Carriers, device manufacturers, chip makers, and test and measurement companies all need software engineers, as do communications and telecom software companies. Telecom and wireless recruiters find themselves competing with each other and with [...]

Google will lay off another 1,200 Motorola Mobility employees, or 10% of the company’s remaining workforce. The cuts will impact workers in the United States, China and India. They are in addition to the 4,000 cuts announced last August after Google completed its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. Google says its handset unit is [...]

With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews. And companies from across the mobile ecosystem are busy recruiting. “We hire a lot of people right out of college,” said AT&T’s Matt Beattie, executive director of product marketing for AT&T’s [...]

As the world’s largest chipmaker shifts its product line to win more business from mobile device makers, it is also shifting leadership at the top. The latest word on Intel’s search for a new CEO is a report that the firm has hired executive search firm Spencer Stuart. Clearly Intel will be looking at candidates [...]

VMware is shifting skill sets by cutting some jobs and adding others. The company also says it wants to make more acquisitions.

Dish Networks (DISH) plans to close 300 more Blockbuster stores and could lay off as many as 3,000 people, according to the Wall Street Journal. The satellite tv service provider acquired Blockbuster’s U.S. business out of bankruptcy in 2010, and has been eliminating retail outlets and jobs since then. 650 stores were closed last year, [...]

Nokia (NOK) detailed today what it says will be the last of the 10,000 job cuts announced last June. The latest cuts affect 300 workers in the company’s IT division. Nokia will also transfer up to 820 employees to HCL Technologies and TATA Consultancy Services. Nokia says that most of the workers impacted by these [...]

German software giant SAP AG has named former Latin America and Caribbean region president, Rodolpho Cardenuto, the president of a combined Americas region, which also includes North America. He will report to Robert Enslin, president of global field operations and an SAP board member. Cardenuto’s promotion came after recognition of his leadership in the region, [...]

An estimated 175,000 military personnel are coming off active duty over the next 12 months, and most of them will be looking for jobs. Many veterans have skill sets and experiences that can translate well in the wireless industry; the key for these people is connecting with the hiring managers who can place them. “The [...]

While analysts debate the causes and cures for tepid job growth in America, wireless service providers and infrastructure companies are busy with their own plans for job growth. AT&T is trying to hire 100 new engineers a year, according to David Brandvold, vice president of global engineering support at the nation’s second largest carrier. He [...]