Technology Sectors that are Hot or Heating Up Now?

unemployedCoder-in-retraining asks: "As a recently "leisured" programmer, I'm very interested in trying to turn misfortune into opportunity. This means using this career discontinuity to bone up on the latest-n-greatest in the hot sectors of the industry, to offer a better chance of a finding another great job. Of course, then one asks: 'What's Hot?' The Telco/Switching sector seems to have flatlined (Nortel and Lucent as examples). Cable and DSL access device and service development seems to be struggling. Wireless 3G networks seem to be having a hard time in North America. And yet, we here that a recovery is underway and that the technology sector as a whole is picking up again. So I ask you: 'Where?' In what sectors? What are the most important new technologies to learn to enhance employability? Somewhere, somebody is hiring or will be soon. What do I and other victims of the slowdown have to know to 'get back in the saddle' in the near future?"

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You won't hear it much on Slashdot

[RTFA Man]

but any time you spend learning Microsoft stuff (.net framework, mcse, c#, etc.) will repay itself a thousand times over.

when the HELL will Slashdot use year dates?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe you haven't figured out how? Believe it or not, people searching the archives kind of like to know what stinkin year an article is from. Sheesh. Typos, misspellings, kindergarten grammar- you guys get paid for this? Might as well work for ZDNet.