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Job cuts in the U.S. technology industry in 2011 are down significantly from a year ago and turnover levels in IT shops have returned to pre-recessionary levels, but that doesn’t make the tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been laid off from electronics, telecommunications and computer industry jobs feel much better.

Bad news follows bad news for Nokia, as they just announced another 3,500 layoffs after cutting 7,000 jobs back in April. And that new manufacturing plant in Cluj, Romania? History.

About 2,000 Research in Motion employees are losing their jobs, while the two co-CEOs who steered the BlackBerry maker's ship into the rocks stay on.

Neither U.S. nor foreign workers is going to win the fight over H-1B visas. Employers have already won,depressing salaries on both sides and cheating on a law designed to be hard to enforce.

Struggling networking equipment vendor might cut 10,000 jobs through layoffs, early-retirement buyouts, Bloomberg reports.

One of 19 lawsuits filed following the Sony hacks charged Sony shored up security only on the internal network used by employees.

It's always a mistake to develop an emotional attachment to an electronic device. You put yourself at the mercy of the manufacturer's whims as well as market dynamics.

According to a memo from AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong that was leaked to Business Insider, nearly 900 workers are being laid off Thursday in the wake of the company's acquisition of online tabloid The Huffington Post.

Yahoo may have problems increasing revenue and stock price, but it's become a well-oiled layoff machine.

Three years ago Myspace was on top of the social networking world. Now it's fighting for survival. There's a lesson in this for other Internet properties, including Facebook.

Just two days after Yahoo announced the layoff of 650 employees -- about 4 percent of its workforce -- another shoe appears to be dropping. And this one will land squarely on a number of web-based services that are familiar names to millions of Internet users.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Yahoo will lay off between 600 and 700 employees, perhaps as early as Tuesday. This represents about 5 percent of the struggling Internet company's total workforce of 14,100.