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The future of... passport control

Customs officials describe it as your ticket to get out of line. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at the Global Entry Trusted Traveler program, which uses automated kiosks to help get you out of the airport and to your destination faster.

Tags: Business Travel, Airport, Customs and Border Protection, Passport, Immigration, Sumi Das

Videos 2009-07-26

A call for national innovation policy

Bruce Nussbaum at Newsweek calls on Obama and McCain Hillary is excused to address a key issue facing American competitiveness â€" the need for an "innovation policy." Here's his list: Support the codification of design methodology and design strategy as being worked on at leading...

Tags: Immigration, Human Capital, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Should YouTube play the censor and sentinel?

Should YouTube play the censor and sentinel?Interesting Choice of WordsNote this phrase "anti-immigration", actually the author meant to say anti *illegal* immigration. This apparently deliberate slant made me discount the entire article. Please say what you mean. Anti-immigration would mean that no one who was not born a citizen could...

Tags: YouTube Inc., sentinel, censor, immigration

Discussion threads 2007-11-09

US Pop Clock 1 (Windows)

Get the latest births, deaths, and immigrations. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Birth, Immigration, GRgadgets, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-09-11

Lou Dobbs and illegal immigration

This is a technology blog where Im supposed to discuss technology topics. On occasion, I dive into economic issues that relate to technology, such as antitrust, or more relevant in the case of this blog, outsourcing and skilled immigration through the H-1B visa program. Illegal immigration from Mexico and H-1B...

Tags: Outsourcing, General, Economic Policy

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip

Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico tripLooking for more employees?The current batch in the Zune division certainly needs replacement.I applaud these efforts...I called my local Republican congressional candidate and got the party line on this. He was all for it as a way to bring more "balance to the work...

Tags: Pot, electronics, worker, immigration, high skill, American Dream

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

Civilization IV Immigration mod 0.4.5 (Windows)

Immigration has always been a part of the history of the world and now it can be part of the history of your game. There are several conditions that can cause a city to spawn immigrants: war, sickness, unhappiness, lack of food, etc. Any of these situations can cause a...

Tags: Immigrant, Immigration, TheLopez, Microsoft Windows, Food & Beverage, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-07-19

High-tech workers lobby for green cards

Indian and Chinese high-tech workers seeking US citizenship have banded into a group called Immigration Voice with powerful friends on K Street, the home to all lobbyists, the Washington Post reports. Immigration Voice boasts 3,000 members; a fundraising goal of $200,000; and, most notably, a partnership with a high-powered lobbying...

Tags: Quinn Gillespie, Voice, Immigration

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Additional Resources

Peak oil panic? Dubai or not Dubai?

Harry, please ignore the deniersThey will try to quash any voice of reason. I believe they hope to maneuver themselves into a position where they can argue that they should not be affected by the consequences because they don't believe in man-made climate change. Pure selfishness.Keep it coming. We are...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, oil

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

'Tis the season for ID fraud: Retailers face $100 billion in losses

No problemThey just need to apply for a bailout. no surprise hereif nobody is going to investigate and chase the crooks they feel embolden to try again.This will become a cost of 'doing business', pretty much like the immigration law being broken without consequences.I hope that was meant to be...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Personal finance, identity fraud

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Civics Flash Cards 2.1 (Mac)

Civics Flash Cards is the computer version of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS Civics Flash Cards that were recently updated for the new naturalization test that all immigrants will now have to face when becoming a U.S. Citizen. NOTE: When USCIS updates their Civics Flash Cards, I will...

Tags: Card, Apple Macintosh, SeaScape Software, Civics Flash Cards, Workforce Management, Productivity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-30

Open source loves profit

with M$ on the brink....OSS is the only way to make money from software.nah, socialism doesn't workIt doesn't at national level. It ain't in software industry as well.RE: Open source loves profitThe brink of what?re: aboveDo you even know what socialism is? It's not driven by money it must be...

Tags: European Socialists, socialism, socialist, Microsoft Corp., brink, OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...

Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Obama, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

CTO: Time for govt innovation has arrived

U.S. chief technology office Aneesh Chopra says he's working hard to enable the federal government to embrace innovation, user-friendliness and best practices, but doing so means modernizing purchasing rules and procedures. Speaking at the Churchill Club in San Francisco, Chopra said: If it's this easy to...

Tags: Innovation, Health Care, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!I forwarded this to the Dutch mediaLet's see whether they'll understand the severity of the issue.http://www.linkslife.co.ukthat is a joke passportRE: Elvis, your e-passport is ready!Years ago a movie called "The Net" with Sandra Bullock hit the scene, and everyone freaked. Yes it was a little over...

Tags: Dutch Passport, e-passport, ELVIS, passport, RFID

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!

E-passports not only threaten your personal safety traveling, the RFID chips are easy to clone and fake. How easy? Here's the picture of Elvis Presley's e-passport: The photo is taken from a passport scanner at a Dutch airport - no alarms or errors....

Tags: E-passport, Passport, Chip, Hacker, E-passport Chip Business, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-19

News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Paul Greenberg: Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Malware, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Photograph, Netbook, CRM, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Geo-engineering can save this planet

Geo-engineering can save this planetToo funnyI love it, socialism and government control of your daily life.Nothing like United Socialist States of Amerika....Population control is a better targetIf that kind of money was spent educating people about overpopulation - and how the earth can only support a finite number of humans...

Tags: Contraception, Wood, Geo-engineering

Discussion threads 2009-06-12