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stanley germany e myth that theres a shortage of qualified Black IT workers. Black tech talent abounds, if you truly reach into the African American community.Credit: Christina Morillo The shock of the killing of George Floyd and other Black people in 2020 got Americans talking again about racial disparities mdash; and companies talking again about improving diversity and inclusion. With Black History Month now winding down, therersquo even more talk.But therersquo been talk off and on for decades, with little result.By some measures, the proportion of Black people in engineering professions has actually dropped since the 1980s, despite all the awareness. More recently, while there have been improvements in Black
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stanley cup ions across industries,Black representation in the US tech sector as a whole is still just half of what the Black population overall is. Black representation remains even lower in the tech vendor community. Black people are being left behind systematically, especially when it comes to tech, says Elizabeth Cotton, executive director of Black Tech Link, a San Diego-area nonprofit and meetup that helps Black candidates prepare for tech jobs through coaching and upskilling. Yet the US has a shortfall of about 700,000 tech jobs, notes Mike Jackson, CEO of Black Tech Talent, a jobs-referral site for Black technologists and consultancy to employers seeking to hire them.A common complaint from employers is that there are not eno Vqth Microsoft won t be pretty in Pink
And then there were three. Samsung is now the first major smartphone manufacturer to launch a Google Android phone, the i7500. Samsung initially will aim t
owala deutschland he phone at the European market.Specs-wise the device looks solid: It has a 5 megapixel camera, 3.2 inch AMOLED full touchscreen, and 7.2Mbps HSDPA, 5.76Mbps HSUPA 3G Internet access and Wi-Fi Internet connectivity. All of this and the device is less than half an inch thick 11.9mm .On the downside, it will only come standard with 8GB of Flash memory. That is just sad. Samsung makes something like half of the worldrsquo Flash memory, they could have put a little bit more in their Google Android Smartphone. Thankfully, theyrsquo;ve included a MicroSD card slot listening Apple which allows an additional 32GB of storage. Since this is a Google OS, the device will, of course, excel at Web browsing, especially Google services like Google Apps, Google Maps and Youtube.Speaking of video, the device supports the following range of multimedia codec formats Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264 and
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polene on the iPhone.This device will also be able to use Google Latitude, the exciting, yet controversial GPS application that lets you know where all of your friends are. The device will be available in major European markets by June 2009. Word on the street is that Americans will be able to buy it unlocked for use on T-Mobile or ATTrsqu