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- Why U.S. Visa policies are like Microsoft Windows
- Inventory of H-1B Visa Woes & What’s Needed for Positive Change U.S. immigration and visa policies are like the Windows operating system. After decades of usage and many repairs to its code/policies, they both still need more patching and enhancements. Both of these institutions start off with...
- Tags: U.S., Visa Inc., Visa, H-1B Visa, Window, Arbitrage, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere.
- Tags: Visa Inc., CIO, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Visa
- Videos 2008-10-07
- 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
- InternetTime 0.2 (Mac)
- InternetTime calculates the Swatch Internet Time and displays it in a little panel. The Swatch time is updated every .1 beat, so the most accurate time is displayed. Converts also Internet Time to Normal Time and visa versa.
- Tags: Visa, Apple Macintosh, Beat, Bit Powder, InternetTime, Internet, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2001-09-12
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- What do Green IT, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, have in common? Poor accounting
- Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America: “Was it an...
- Tags: Accounting, Friedman's Inc., Financial, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Green IT, Economic Crisis, Printing, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference
- Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...
- Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- ID Photo Maker 3.1 (Windows)
- ID Photo Maker is a powerful and easy to use standard ID photo, passport photo, visa photo and other identification photo making software. With its include variety of ID photo styles and output templates, professional cropping function, step by step user interface, detailed video tutorials, comprehensive help-files and prompt hint....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Image Processing, ID
- Software downloads 2009-06-17
- Batch Photo Processor 1.08 (Windows)
- Batch Photo Processor is for batch image/PDF processing batch lists of files in sequence, image files supported are BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG Images & PDF Documents. Batch Photo Processor software optionally can folder watch / email watch every few seconds and process files in a folder, it also has...
- Tags: DPI, Traction Software Inc., Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Image, NT Service Wrapper
- Software downloads 2009-06-17
- What cloud can learn from SOA, and visa-versa
- New book explores how cloud computing is accelerating SOA adoption by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutDICK DURBINYou link to his page right in that top paragraph... yet you still can't get his name right?RE: H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutThere are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take...
- Tags: Obama, H-1B, H-1B legislation, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about
- Both L-1 and H-1B visa law changes could impact SIs, outsourcers and more Dick Durbin is one-half of the Durbin-Grassley senatorial duo that is proposing new legislation re: H-1B and L-1 visas. Lately, a number of publications have opined about the latest proposed legislation and its impact...
- Tags: Legislation, Worker, Dick Durbin, DOL, Enforcement Issue, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- News to know: Google Wave; Bing; Palm webOS; Verizon Wireless CEO; AOL
- 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. Sam Diaz: Meet Google Wave: a new way to communicate and collaborate Google Wave: It's still a work in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Verizon Wireless, Semiconductors, Social Networking, H-1B, Strategy, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraud
- Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraudYou are rightThe level of h-1b should be tied to the unemployment rate.When it crosses a threshold there should be no more application approved.Also the burden should be on the fraudsters to prove there were no Americans able to do the jobs.H1-b...
- Tags: H-1B visa, H-1B, H-1B visa fraud, free trade
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraud
- Would your firm want this kind of publicity? Be sure and check out the piece in ComputerWorld (May 27, 2009) re: H-1B fraud prosecution. The article by Patrick Thibodeau describes how the U.S. Federal Government is connecting the alleged abuse of the H-1B...
- Tags: Job, H-1B Visa, Juror, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Government, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules
- Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rulesHow convenientI love how something was done about this only after something ended up in the news. Gotta go after those impressionable, stupid voters!Meanwhile, I can still look up a lot of these very same ads in the Yellow Pages,...
- Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, adult section
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Heartland says malware breach cost $12.6 million
- Heartland says malware breach cost $12.6 millionI don't think ..... that cost was calculated in the TCO from their vendors."Heartland says malware breach cost $12.6 million"They just don't want to say it, but i'll say it for them.The malware infested OS is costing them millions.Heartland you're not alone.Everyone has got...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, PCI auditing, malware, PCI, Heartland, server
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Heartland says malware breach cost $12.6 million
- The data breach at Heartland Payment Systems cost the company a whopping $12.6 million in legal costs and fines from Mastercard and Visa. Heartland, a publicly traded company that provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the U.S., made the disclosure less than four months...
- Tags: Bank, Payment, Malware, Intrusion, MasterCard International, Heartland, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- WiMAX and the grid
- WiMAX and the gridThe issue here is that its cheaper than what they have.Even though they will save money, the speed it offers is not that much higher than their existing networks and they dont have to worry about people hoping networks more frequently.Either way you look at it.. someone...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, WiMAX, grid
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Verdict: XP Mode gets an F
- Verdict: XP Mode gets an FIntention or just a MS way?Can anyone tell me what was the ONE operating system related thing Microsoft had actually managed to take from an idea to a product that would work as promised?This is either done or purpose to force people to transit to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, XP Mode
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
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