Rising salaries in technological sector in 2009?

This is not a post closely related to compact modeling, but I feel that it is relevant... I've read an article in EDN, and it seems that the technological sector is a nice one to be during this crisis. In fact, they say that the unemployment ratio is halt that of the general population, and that salaries are actually growing... Incredible, isn't it? Maybe they hint at a possible explanation, because it seems that most of the people are trying to improve their situation, and that can lead to an increase of the mean salary, since the employers must keep the better...

Anyway, the full article is here... What do you think?

1/f noise in (100) and (110) Si

I've been looking to a paper from the January Issue of J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, by Philippe Gaubert, Akinobu Teramoto, Weitao Cheng, Tatsufumi Hamada, and Tadahiro Ohmi, "Different mechanism to explain the 1/f noise in n- and p-SOI-MOS transistors fabricated on (110) and (100) silicon-oriented wafers".

They discuss the differences in both orientacions, and present some nice experimental results, with some theory explaining the differences. If you're interested in noise (other than pub music, I mean), perhaps this can interest you.