Under the last coronavirus stimulus package signed into law late last year, each state was responsible for implementing federal unemployment extensions for people who lost their jobs in the pandemic.

Whoa. “IBM” and “COBOL” together in one sentence in a non-historical article. Next up, an article about the Razr or the BSDs... Click to expand... So I work for a large federal agency and we still ...

says that Cobol jobs may still exist. I need to know how that’s possible. Since I was laid off in 2001 I cannot find jobs and have been struggling to find one. I live in major metropolitan area and ...

IN THE NEARLY five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response as “Application transformation.” The article presented an overview of two ...

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...

IT has become one of the worst contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are rapidly accelerating global warming. There are understandable reasons for this. The amount of infrastructure we ...

On the show, a computer language from the 1960s is still running all across America. Does it matter if it outlived its programmers? I’m Lizzie O’Leary and you’re listening to what next? TBD a show ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...

1998. It was a golden year for COBOL programmers as industries started to panic regarding the "epidemic" which would be known as the "Y2K bug". Between 1998 and 1999, I earned enough money I literally ...