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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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- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' future
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' futureMaybe the best way to put it is that with WOA, we just pick the low hangingfruit first, and do not need to get into religious wars, or get company wide buy-in, you just do it. Not sure which name will win out, but getting...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, cloud computing, WOA, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- An IE8 Beta 2 Q
- An IE8 Beta 2 QWhat if you uninstall beta 1 first?Will you fall back to IE7 then be able to install beta 2 with a fallback to IE7?Can I uninstall IE8? Yes ... unless ...... you downloaded and installed IE8 Beta 1 prior to installing Windows XP SP3, in which...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, IE8 Beta 2 Q, IE8, beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alertsVISA, banks to test real-time fraud alertsSt.George Bank in Australia (stgeorge.com.au)has been offering this service for some 4 years now. Customers set their own trigger points and receive an SMS and/or email. SMS messages are delievered before cash is delivered from an...
- Tags: Financial services, SMS Message, Real-Time Alerts, real-time fraud alert, VISA bank, Visa Inc., bank, fraud alert
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with with eight North American banks to deliver fraud alerts in real-time via SMS text messages and e-mails to cell phones. The pilot program will allow about 2,000 Visa cardholders to set thresholds that will trigger an immediate transaction alert...
- Tags: Bank, Visa Inc., Transaction, Cardholder, Financial Services, Telecom & Utilities, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Don't downgrade me to XP!
- Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- SAP BusinessOne v Microsoft: SAP wins for VARs
- SAP BusinessOne v Microsoft: SAP wins for VARsVARs and SAPSAP Business One - great product. But the SAP to Business One customers interface doesn't exist - its all via VARs and the quality of some of them is a bit questionable. I'm sure SAP will need to do something on...
- Tags: Retail, Channel management, Microsoft Corp., value-added reseller, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Tags: Strategy, Koman, H-1B, H-1B visa, tech worker, job, immigration system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...
- Tags: U.S., H-1B Visa, Immigration System, H-1B, Government, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?
- Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?This isn't even strictly a Beta Tester issueMicrosoft realised that MCE systems just weren't flying out the door and then correctly perceived that it makes more sense to bundle it with Vista so that OEMs can either make a "home entertainment center"...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., beta tester, Windows future, MCE
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Where are the expense management startups and Dirty SaaS?
- My Irregular chums have been fiercely debating the need and merit of a sensible expense management solution that combines the best of online purchasing with accounting and the ability to re-bill (where appropriate.) It all started when there was a discussion around Concur and Rearden Commerce...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Receipt, Microsoft Corp., Zoli Erdos, Vinnie, MDI, Microsoft Excel, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack
- Graham Tibbetts of the UK Telegraph is reporting that the British Foreign Office has admitted to losing around 3,000 passports and visa stickers, which were stolen on their way from Manchester to RAF Northolt in London, where they were to be sent to British embassies. From the article: Officials...
- Tags: Passport, Van, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks
- We've talked a lot about airport security here see other links at the bottom of this article, but one thing we haven't covered yet is airport kiosks. Not that they haven't caught my attention, there's just so much wrong at the airport, it takes time to cover it all. Richard...
- Tags: Credit Card, Airport Security, Airport Kiosk, Stiennon, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Russia as datacenter hub? Not so fast
- Russia apparently could become a datacenter hub. It has hydroelectric power, cold temperatures to keep all those servers cool and a booming economy with lots of engineering talent. But there are enough moving parts to require a little more homework on that Russia as datacenter capital theory. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Russia, British Petroleum Co Plc, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Houston we have a problem
- Regular readers don't need me to repeat the oft held view that enterprise wide application implementation is often slow, cumbersome and expensive. But are we really getting anything out of it at the end of the day other than some marginal cost efficiency? Rather than throw brickbats at any particular...
- Tags: Customer Service, Houston, Sam Lawrence, CIOs/CTOs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- America's blocked labor policies
- A little known fact about the H-1B work visa program - the special visa used by most foreign technology workers who come to work in the United States - is that fashion models must compete for the same category of visa, a fact about which The Economist reminded me in...
- Tags: John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- I am Batman
- I am Batmanre: I am BatmanIf I understand this correctly... they'll pay for your Phone usage but not your data, correct? First off, I'd say that's odd in this day and age. Usually I see that companies pay for Both or None.In any case, it sounds like you're...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, dork, Batman, phone, RIM BlackBerry, belt
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Literate programming
- Literate programming*blink*Full time programers don't do this? I learned FORTRAN around 1980 and the text required "a structured and disciplined style." That may not be the same thing as "literate programming" but it seems close. I know I have a hard time getting statisticians to document their project specific analysis...
- Tags: Development tools, programming, programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
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- Visa Inc.
- Visa operates a retail electronic payments network and manages global financial services brands. Co. facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information among...
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