It's Day 2 at The Mobile Marketing Conference. Day 1 was a huge success with great panels and even better networking. The conference continues with an emphasis on Crowdsourcing, Mobile marketing on your bottom line, and many more great panels offering valuable insight on the positive affects Mobile Development and marketing can have for your business.

It's middle March, which means The Mobile Marketing Conference is here. This past year has been tremendous for developers and mobile marketers. More people then ever are building mobile websites and are trying to convert impressions to transactions via mobile devices. Find out whats happening and how you can stay updated with the latest technologies and methodologies being offered today.

Software development and mobile applications could be facing a paradigm shift. The shift towards cloud computing seems more and more real. Introducing Boot to Gecko, a project lead by the brilliant minds at Mozilla have brought the wonders of cloud computing right to your mobile phone. Click to read and see what surprise guests will be collaborating and what it has to offer.

Windows 8 is gaining popularity very fast. See what new features are being offered and decide for your self if this is the edge Windows needs to make it a game changer for competitors like Google and Apple. Innovative software development in the new much anticipated windows version is going to be very exciting, and we are definitely looking forward to test driving it.

2012 is going to be an exciting year when it comes to innovation of software for all mobile devices. We have searched hi and low to uncover the secrets of the ever changing mobile industry. We have compiled a fresh list of things to look forwards too, so stay tuned...it only get more interesting.

As people in the IT industry sometimes claim they are the smartest, they still get panic and sweaty facing some of the wackiest questions during their job interviews. Why these questions, and moreover, if it was you, how would you answer them?

If you still think iPad is designed as a high-tech toy, think again. Like it or not, your employees are using their own gadgets more frequently to complete their work. The question is: are you ready to adopt tablets and mobile technology for your enterprise?

We need your support on the Session Cast for TechWeek! Vote today for Forte's session "Talent Development" with your Facebook connection and get a say in the topics of this exciting technology feast. Your single click can make a difference and help us and you find answers for talent development in Chicago tech community.

The "hire-to-bench" era was well into its prime up until the dot com bubble burst in 2001. Since then, the bench consultant began dying a quick death. However, those few companies that employ the model of hiring to the bench are quickly starting to see competitive advantages over those that do not. Here are a few glaring advantages:

We’ve seen too many blog posts written by developers or techies complaining how IT recruiters are clueless about technologies. Before we jump to a solution for that problem, we want to ask: Do technical recruiters have to be technical?