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U.S. Figures Show Most H-1B Visa Holders Are Under 35 |
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The U.S. reached the 85,000 H-1B visa cap late last month thanks to a fourth quarter spike in demand.And, according to data recently released by the AFL-CIO labor union, most of the visa-holders are less than 35-years-old and most likely from India. About half work in computer-related occupations... |
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NASA Discovers Five New Planets |
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An orbiting space telescope launched earlier this year by NASA has spotted five new planets that range in size from about the diameter of Neptune to that of Jupiter—the largest planet in Earth's solar system.
The so-callled exoplanets are located in distant parts of space, and orbit stars that are hotter and larger than the Sun...
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2009's Top 5 Data Disasters |
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Companies continued to be felled more by usual issues such as lost laptops, unpatched or poorly coded software, inadvertent disclosures and rogue insiders, rather than by sneaky new attack techniques or devastating new hacker tools... |
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NORAD Tracks Santa On Google Earth |
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Santa Claus was over Japan early Thursday and heading south toward Guam, the Marshall Islands, New Guinea, and ultimately Australia, according to a special, Google Earth-powered Web site established by the North American Aerospace Defense Command... |
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Adobe Warns Of Reader, Acrobat Attack In The Wild |
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Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company's Reader and Acrobat software.
"This afternoon, Adobe received reports of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions being exploited in the wild... |
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Oracle Mobilizing MySQL Users |
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Oracle has converted a largely closed European Commission regulatory process into a more open, political dogfight by mobilizing many MySQL users who are also Oracle customers to write letters on its behalf... |
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First Commercial LTE Network Goes Live |
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TeliaSonera moved its Long Term Evolution deployment schedule up and debuted the service in central city areas of Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway Monday, laying claim to being the first service provider in the world to offer the 4G service... |
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Google Releases Experimental Phone To Employees |
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Google has handed out a new mobile phone running its Android software to some employees, stirring another wave of speculation that the oft-rumored Google Phone is real... |
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Signs And Wonders: Is AT&T Stepping Up Its Game? |
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Signs and sources say that AT&T is undergoing a massive effort--both behind the scenes and out in front--to improve the performance of its oft-maligned 3G network.
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'Godfather Of Spam' Gets Four Years In Prison |
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Notorious spammer Alan M. Ralsky, from West Bloomfield, Mich., was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Monday for his involvement in a stock fraud spam scheme.
Three of his associates -- Ralsky's son-in-law Scott Bradley, also from West Bloomfield, John S. Bown, from Fresno, Calif., and How Wai John Hui, a resident of Hong Kong and Canada -- also received prison sentences...
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