It took a major recession with accelerating unemployment to make it happen, but the feds are finally getting serious about cracking down on abuses of the H-1B immigrant visa program. Still, Ars argues that we should “mend it, not end it,” especially with American job loses mounting.
One of Ubuntu’s strategies for gaining a larger user base is providing quality, comprehensive training for everyone who desires. For that purpose, Canonical has recently included Fast Lane and Bridge Education.
Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone developer and data forensics expert, has teamed up with AMBER Alert to create an iPhone app for receiving detailed AMBER alerts via iPhone. Ars talked to Zdziarski about why he wrote the app and how it can also be used to report sightings in a faster and more reliable manner to law enforcement.
For the first time, HP will soon be supporting Ubuntu Linux on one of its server lines.
Microsoft isn’t short of cash, and it recently – and unsuccessfully – offered to buy Yahoo! for .6 billion.The idea was to catch up with Google, but the big G isn’t the only firm doing well in areas where Microsoft isn’t.
Although AT&T and several other iPhone partners joined an industry initiative to standardize mobile phone chargers over the next few years, Apple has yet to follow suit and may remain committed to its proprietary dock-connector interface .
Vodafone and Opera have announced they are teaming up to create a new version of the Opera Mini mobile browser, which is aimed at low-end handsets.
Yes, Twitter had more downtime last year (84 hours) than any of 15 social networking sites monitored by Pingdom, but it showed dramatic improvement from July on. LinkedIn, conversely, had more downtime every quarter. MySpace and Facebook were among the best
Toy Fair is that rare trade show where one feel less like an industry drone and more like Tom Hanks in Big. Here are the ten best things from today’s show. Yes, Zoltan!
Mac OS X 10.6 explained Windows 7 may be grabbing all the headlines, but Apple isn’t standing still. It’s hard at work developing a major update to the next version of its operating system, dubbed Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.[4 pages]
