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America's blocked labor policies

America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...

Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

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Orphan

The medical cost of our death can vary tremendously, depending on how we choose to handle it. There is a policy obligation to make that choice now, before you are unable to do so. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Death, Healthcare, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-13

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it

Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for itHard to believeIt's hard to believe that the Bush Administration is on the right side of this one. I guess the RIAA didn't grease the pockets all the way to the top. Live and learn. Next time they will...

Tags: Pro-IP, Bush, biz, labor

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsThis could help the economy...The government should burn the recorded conversations to CDs and sell them. :-)NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversationsHrmmm I wonder if they are hiring?More lies from the Bush administration.http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060102/news_1n2bush.htmlIt only counts because AMERICANS are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone sex, NSA, Eavesdroppers, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it

There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...

Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...

Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Anonymity and the Internet

Anonymity and the InternetBecause of course...Anyone who registers on an internet site or forum always registers with their real name, address, etc.. aside from their "handle". The only thing to do now is find the John Smiths that live at 1122 B. Woogie Ave. MyHouse USA.It will probably come down...

Tags: Internet

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...

Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery

News items 2008-10-09

Feds try to tackle data sprawl

With the federal government holding data in over 3,000 different programs and databases, how can they get a grip on sprawling duplication and out-of-date data? At a conference hosted by the Information Technology Association of America, the Office of Science and Technology Policy outlined a vision to tackle the problem,...

Tags: Data, Executive Branch, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...

Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Google is NOT your friend

Google is NOT your friendthe old call the enemy of my enemy is my best friendas long as google will pick on MS im willing to live with it happily .... when MS will be out of the picture will trun to the next monsterRE: Google is NOT your friendSure,...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Google is your friend

I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don't look beyond the...

Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Can two AMDs be better than one?

Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...

Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management

The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...

Tags: Business Process, Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Systinet Corp., HP SOA Systinet 3.0, HP Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-10-06