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U.S. moves to strengthen H-1B enforcementU.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers during the government's current fiscal year. That would mark a nearly fivefold increase in inspections over the previous year, ...
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Linux and Open Source: Best of 2009 | Linux and Open Source | TechRepublic.comLinux and Open Source Linux and Open Source: Best of 2009 Date : December 22nd, 2009 Author : Selena Frye Category : General Tags: Ubuntu , Fedora Project , Post , Jack Wallen , Linux , Microsoft Windows 7 , Open Source , Microsoft Windows , Operating Systems , UNIX 0 ...
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Built for Google Chrome: gBook on the way? | DVICEBuilt for Google Chrome: gBook on the way? Is there a Google-branded netbook on the way? Google's been talking about working with a variety of manufacturers to be sure its Chrome OS runs well, but now multiple sources are saying Google will hire an unnamed netbook maker to build a device ...
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Books on Science - Essays Inspired by Microsoft’s Jim Gray, Who Saw Science Paradigm Shift - NYTimes.comComputational power created computational science, which produced the overwhelming flow of data, which now requires a computing change. It is a positive feedback loop in which the data stream becomes the data flood and sculptures a new computing landscape. “The advent of inexpensive ...
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Chrome bumps Safari from No. 3 browser spot | The Apple Core | ZDNet.comLast week’s release of Google’s Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux gave the upstart Web browser a major boost in marketshare according to Net Applications, which tracks the browser habits of 160 million unique visitors each month to the 40,000 sites it monitors for customers. Chrome’s marketshare ...
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Hackers declare war on international forensics tool • The RegisterHackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities Microsoft provides for free to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the globe. Decaf is a light-weight application that monitors Windows systems for the presence of COFEE, a bundle of some 150 ...
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With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality | Deep Tech - CNET News3D graphics became ordinary first in games, then in operating systems, and on Thursday, it took a significant step toward being built into Web browsers as well. The Khronos Group, which oversees the OpenGL graphics interface, announced that its work with Mozilla to bring hardware-accelerated 3D ...
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Germany pays to fix Microsoft users' computers Boing BoingThe German government has allocated a secret budget to fund call-centers to help Windows users whose PCs are infected with malware. Microsoft's support costs are thus being borne at taxpayer expense. I can understand why a government would want to create anti-malware programs. After all, ...
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How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top - Yahoo! NewsWith a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Online charlatans typically try to lure people into giving away their personal or ...
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Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots - Yahoo! NewsEric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. "I remembered thinking, `Whoa, this is scary,' as it whirled around, almost knocking me down," the ...
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