What this election means for H-1B, offshoring

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	What this election means for H-1B, offshoring The national unemployment rate of 9.6% has made offshoring a top issue in this year's midterm elections, but will the results of Tuesday's voting change the H-1B visa battle in Congress? Much depends on which scenario plays out on Nov. 2. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp How Efficient is your Storage Environment? Store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost, without compromising performance. The key is selecting a platform that supports thin provisioning, data deduplication and virtualization. Dramatically lower your capacity requirements and costs. Read More! In this Issue Steve Ballmer is "pumped up!" about smart devices RIM BlackBerry Style 9670: The Seven Most Notable Features Microsoft giving away Windows Phone 7 phones Microsoft puts Windows Server instances in the cloud E-voting: How secure is it? Hackers exploit newest Flash zero-day bug CA retools automation portfolio Metasploit 3.5 release brings 62 more exploits NASA puts automated software code patents on auction block DISA, Cloud Computing, and The Last Mile in Afghanistan Why I Blocked Texting on My New Handset NASA's stuck Mars rover spots water WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG 8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now! Steve Ballmer is "pumped up!" about smart devices Before leaving the stage, though, Ballmer revealed that he is pumped up because of the progress of both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7. But despite the increasing popularity of smartphones, Ballmer said the PC is still number one in his books. Read More RIM BlackBerry Style 9670: The Seven Most Notable Features RIM's latest BlackBerry is a "clamshell" flip-phone running the company's new BlackBerry 6 mobile OS. Check out Al Sacco's list of the Style 9670's most notable features to see if the device should be your next handheld. Read More Microsoft giving away Windows Phone 7 phones Microsoft ensured Windows Phone 7 phones would be used by at least someone when it pledged over the summer to give away the devices to all 90,000 of its employees. Now the company is giving away Windows Phone 7 devices to the general public via a contest that runs from this week until Dec. 1. Read More Microsoft puts Windows Server instances in the cloud Microsoft bolstered Windows Azure with several new capabilities today, including the ability to run Windows Server instances on Azure, theoretically making applications portable between the data center and Microsoft cloud platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems 2010 Application Delivery Handbook Learn how IT organizations can develop a solid approach to applications delivery and how next generation acceleration technologies can help reclaim bandwidth from non-essential traffic and optimize critical applications. Free the WAN with Blue Coat. Read now! E-voting: How secure is it? Election fraud and vote tampering is as old as government. But surely, by 2010, with technology as sophisticated as it is and elections as regulated as they are, any voting system rolled out these days is no doubt fool-proof and iron-clad in terms of security, right? Not so, say some voting security experts. And, in fact, it's technology that makes new voting systems dangerous. Read More Hackers exploit newest Flash zero-day bug Adobe today confirmed that hackers are exploiting a critical unpatched bug in Flash Player, and promised to patch the vulnerability in two weeks. Read More CA retools automation portfolio CA Technologies unveiled its newly reorganized tools for automating the provisioning and management of physical, virtual and cloud-based IT resources. Modular implementation options let companies add capabilities at their own pace. Read More Metasploit 3.5 release brings 62 more exploits The best known and easiest to use security penetration testing toolkit, Metasploit, just released a new version 3.5. This version includes lots of anticipated updates to the framework that is used by both white and black hats alike. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Top Considerations for Virtualizing Microsoft Applications This report describes the reasons for virtualizing Microsoft® applications. It highlights the most important architecture and deployment considerations to help you get started. Read Now. NASA puts automated software code patents on auction block NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center this week said it is set to auction an exclusive license to five patents it holds for automated software development on Nov. 11, 2010. Read More DISA, Cloud Computing, and The Last Mile in Afghanistan If you're interested in cloud computing you should look into the activities at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). DISA provides complex IT services for DoD including network services, computing services, and complex application development services. DISA is also a leading example of cloud computing in the U.S. Federal government. Read More Why I Blocked Texting on My New Handset Instant messaging has really taken off here in the States, just as it has across the globe. But I've blocked IM on my phone for a couple of reasons, and I doubt I'm going to change my mind about this. Read More NASA's stuck Mars rover spots water The fact that NASA's Mars Rover Spirit has been stuck in the same spot for over a year and stands a good chance of never being heard from again in the future hasn't stopped it from discovering evidence that water apparently was at some point  right under its wheels. Read More
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