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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails
- There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- T-Mobile clarifies G1 Android pre-order availability and text messaging question
- I was lucky enough to attend the T-Mobile G1 product announcement in New York a couple of weeks ago and actually pre-ordered my own G1 that day on the train back to the airport for my flight home and it turns out it was a good thing I did. I...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Watch tonight's bebate on your mobile; just not on the iPhone
- Watch tonight's bebate on your mobile; just not on the iPhoneIt is debate, not bebateyou might want to fix that typo ;)RE: Watch tonight's bebate on your mobile; just not on the iPhoneSprint's Instinct phone will also have it on Live TV.I think listening to it on the radio will...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed
- Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissedEver wonder?Why Apple computers are so expensive and of such lower quality? because Apple is the whorst computer monopoly ever (like MS, but time 1000). Apple will do all it can including well known illegal activities to prevent competition and...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Simple Trainer (exe)
- Simple Trainer is an auto skill trainer for EVE Online. It will take any length skill plan for an unlimited number of characters and train it automatically. It has an easy to use interface that allows any user to create or upload their personalized skill training plan and begin training...
- Software downloads 2008-09-30
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"
- PR blunders or "mystery meetings"It sounds like the new SOP for PRPublic relations and "press releases" seem to be in need of some sort of help. Perhaps a consultation with Jennifer Leggio? I read more and more about companies and websites being inundated with press releases that they have specifically...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displaysWhat's the life-expectancy of an LED display?Is it expected to be better or worse than an LCD display? After all, the two are unlikely to be exactly the same, and if it's worse then surely the energy cost of manufacturing extra...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Oracle, the Innovation Company: Core Innovation, Fusion Applications' Debut, and Why It's All Up to AIA
- If I had to distill a vast and complex product strategy into a single, admittedly simplistic description, Oracle of late would have been known as a company that innovates through acquisition: This has been largely true since Oracle's acquisition binge started five years ago. And until now innovation through acquisition...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)
- Comcast really does care aka how Twitter helped save Nick at NiteYou are not the only one...Fresh Prince is still cool and funny. I did the same as you, but once I started making use of my media center in vista I was watching recorded shows of Inuyasha and Angel...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Apps for Androids: Will Google Map Out An 'Open' Platform?
- Smartphones are no better than the apps that they run. So, if you're going to follow the money on Google's bet on its Android operating system for mobile phones, you also have to follow the apps. That's where an Android phone will have to distinguish itself from an iPhone or...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war
- Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Kids NetLinks Premium Screensaver (zip)
- Kids NetLinks Premium Screensaver provides 120 kids oriented images in a polariod 3x5 style layered screensaver design. Watch images tossed on to the screen from Dora, Diego, Bugs Bunny, Thomas the Train and many more. Choose your own photo collection or add your favorite images to the Kids NetLinks folder...
- Software downloads 2008-09-22
- A Failure To Not Communicate
- The preliminary findings of the investigation of last week's commuter train crash in Southern California: Text-messaging was involved, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is a wreck that should make us think, about how much we need to communicate.. by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- NY issues its RealID card
- NY issues its RealID cardre: NY issues its RealID card[i]Your privacy truly is at stake in the REAL ID debate. But in my view, it’s the opponents of secure identification who pose the greatest risk. Without REAL ID, you are far more likely to endure one of the worst privacy...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Microsoft pulls the plug on Gates-Seinfeld ads; Campaign's next phase set to begin
- Microsoft is pulling the plug on the team of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates as the TV spokesmen trying to reinvent the image of Windows. The official word from Redmond is that the company had always planned to pull the plug on the two when the $300 million ad campaign...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
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